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Throwing your vote away on a third party is immoral in the same way as refusing to throw the switch and letting two babies get run over in our train hypothetical.
Elections are worthless anyway. See Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.
Well, they didn't. In real life public taxes paid for the roads. You need to stop applying fantasyland politics to the real world.
Didn't but can.
I find this sentence ironic coming from the person who throws away his vote every election. Is the person in the train hypothetical "condoning" the train running somebody over? Of course not. Choosing the lesser of two evils is always the moral choice. Refusing to make a choice, and thereby permitted a greater evil, is the cowardly route. You can claim principle all you like, but you are doing harm in the real world.
Would you vote for Hitler or Stalin? A vote for one is a support of one. The only moral option is neither. If the person who believes in this stuff casts his vote in support of the system, then who will we have to push us in the direction of liberty?
They are not separate problems, they are inextricably linked. Corporatist coercion is the inevitable effect of inertia on a free market, and the ideal minarchist libertarian government would be just enough to counteract corruption of the free market.
Corporate coercion would not exist without government.