Please stop with the 'anarchy' stuff; less government and no government are a long ways apart, especially when our government has a budget in the trillions of dollars.

If you don't trust people to run their own lives, why do you expect the right of self-governance to be extended to you?

If your answer is that you are somehow special who can make proper decisions whereas 'the masses' must be ruled, then how do you know you are in fact one of the anointed elite? Other people might disagree with your self-assessment.

If your answer is that everyone is incapable of self-rule, then how could such a people be possibly trusted to elect their own representatives? Further, if the controllers of a planned society are themselves drawn from the populace, doesn't it follow that they are also incapable of self-rule, and are therefore not only unqualified to run their own lives, but really have no business running anyone else's?

Maybe there's a special class of people so blessed with the gift, not only to manage their own lives, but to justly and appropriately decide for us what we ought to do? Oh wait, that system's been tried already; I think you can find it under 'monarchy.'

As for not voting being the political equivalent of letting others decide what you buy, I agree. We do not yet have a system where we can vote "none of the above."