Thursday, November 1, 2012

Camus and Voltaire's Vote

Both Camus and Voltaire showed their views toward aristocracy. Voltaire satirized the higher powers throughout most of his literary works. So his vote would be hard to consider. If he was alive to vote during the upcoming election, if he wouldn't stay home that day, I believe he would vote for the party with the least government power. If I know my politics right, the party that he would vote for would be the libertarian party candidate, Gary Johnson. Before that vote, I believe that neither would vote.

For Camus the same story almost goes for him. He would oppose the aristocracy in his country and would not vote in an election to give one man the magnitude of the power of the president, it would go against the things he belived in. If he was forced to vote I would say the same as Voltaire, however, due to their previous ideas and views, I believe that they would refuse to vote. If I could ask them, I'd be curious.