Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker KQ | Judge: Bietz

1NC

*expressed as from where cards start to where cards are marked
The 1AC’s conceptions of civic engagement paper over activist dissent to the democratic system – traditional politics is dead and incapable of producing real change, and voting doesn’t change anything about Congress – the only effective form of politics is the protest, grassroots youth resistance to neoliberal policies, a refusal to engage and a refusal to vote – this link turns the aff
Giroux ’11 Henry Giroux, prof. English and Cultural Studies @ McMaster Univ.; “Left Behind? American Youth and the Global Fight for Democracy;” 28 Feb. 2011; truthout.org; http://www.truth-out.org/archive/item/94673:left-behind-american-youth-and-the-global-fight-for-democracy#14 RMJ
 One has no choice but to do all in one's power ... of protesting the alleged left totalitarianism of the academy. She writes:

Their notion of democracy is a neoliberal one – entrenches disposability and inequality – policymakers control policy, not voters
Giroux, McMaster cultural studies professor, 2008
(Henry, “Beyond the biopolitics of disposability: rethinking neoliberalism in the New Gilded Age”, Social Identities; Sep2008, Vol. 14 Issue 5, p587-620, ebsco)
Any attempt to address the current biopolitics ... that neoliberalism must be challenged. 

That entrenches corporate globalization and makes extinction inevitable- social and environmental factors build positive feedbacks create a cascade of destruction - only massive social reorganization can save the planet
Ehrenfeld, Rutgers biology professor, 2005
(David, “The Environmental Limits to Globalization”, Conservation Biology Vol. 19 No. 2, ebsco)
The overall environmental changes brought about or ...  of major ocean currents, 

Vote negative to reject civic engagement and embrace civic protest – taking back the academy is critical – shift the focus of the debate from how to best promote the system to how to best FIX the system – infusing public and educational spaces with critiques of neoliberalism is key to establish new social relations
Henderson et al., Rochester doctoral candidate, 2011
(Joseph, “Contesting global neoliberalism and creating alternative futures”, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 32.2, Taylor and Francis)
Contesting neoliberalism necessitates that we ...  creating an alternative to neoliberalism.

Policy making isn’t grounded in objectivity, it’s corporate cherry picking. Be critical of the aff’s neoliberal scholarship, which is just rhetoric
Bristow, Cardiff University economic geographer senior lecturer, 2005
(Gillian, “Everyone's a ‘winner’: problematising the discourse of regional competitiveness”, Journal of Economic Geography, June, oxford journals)
This begs the question as to why a discourse ... the ideas of regional and national policy elites. 

Globalization causes war-exacerbates all the proximate causes.
Staples, International Network on Disarmament and Globalization chair, 2000
(Steven, “The relationship between globalization and militarism”, Social Justice, 27.4, proquest)
Economic inequality is growing; ... policies that reduce corporate profits

NR

Try or die for the alt alone – you can’t vote for neolib AND the common good – the relationship is antagonistic - it’s black or white, either good or bad – if capital takes hold the perm fails
De Angelis, 09 (Massimo, econ prof. E London“The tragedy of the capitalist commons”, December, http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-5/capitalist-commons/, DOA: 7-2-12)

This platform of management of the ... capitalist markets for the reproduction of their livelihoods.
Status quo politics focuses on the individual – makes it incapable of conceptualizing the scale and severity of climate change
Clark ’12 Timothy Clark, prof. English @ Durham; “Scale: Derangements of Scale” in Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 1., 2012, Ed. Tom Cohen; Open Humanities Press/University of Michigan Library; http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/10539563.0001.001/1:8/~-~-telemorphosis-theory-in-the-era-of-climate-change-vol-1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext  RMJ
One symptom of a now widespread ... and the political become newly uncertain,

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington JK | Judge: Kassam
The notion that rational economic calculus can and should explain voting behavior is the intrusion of market principles into civil society – exacerbates inequality
Brown, Maryland sociology professor, 2002
(Richard, “Global Capitalism, National Sovereignty, And The Decline Of Democratic Space”, Rhetoric and Public Affairs; Summer2002, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p347-357, ebsco)
The intrusion of market rationality into ... possibilities of informed, active citizenship 

Questioning underlying ontological structures of neoliberalism first is key-otherwise policy is predetermined in favor of the market.
Murphy, Miami sociology professor, 2005
(John, Globalization with a Human Face, pg 11-13)
Murphy 4
The process of development, now ... equated with rationality and general improvement. 

Neolib causes war
Staples 2k, (Steven, International Network on Disarmament and Globalization chair“The relationship between globalization and militarism”, Social Justice, 27.4, proquest)
Economic inequality is growing; more conflict and ... economy with a military-corporate complex

Util
Isaac 2 — Jeffrey C. Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life at Indiana University-Bloomington, 2002 (“Ends, Means, and Politics,” Dissent, Volume 49, Issue 2, Spring, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via EBSCOhost, p. 35-36)
As writers such as Niccolo Machiavelli ... And it undermines political effectiveness.

It’s Unpopular – veil of ignorance flips neg in its only tangible or quantifiable manifestation
Weiner ’04 Eric Weiner, NPR contributor; “You Must Vote. It's the Law.” Oct. 29, 2004; Slate; http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_best_policy/2004/10/you_must_vote_its_the_law.2.html RMJ
In the end, though, mandatory voting is extremely ... those entertaining get-out-the-vote campaigns.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oxbridge NV | Judge: Achten

K

Compulsory voting transforms popular disillusionment into a superficially engaged simulation of the masses, papering over the fact that politics is already dead – that only reifies and legitimizes elitist power structures
Lindsey ’07 Jason R., Dept PolSci @ St. Cloud State U, MN; "Rethinking the Political: Taking Baudrillard's “Silent Majorities” Seriously;” Int’l Journal of Baudrillard Studies Vol. 4 No. 2; July 2007; http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol4_2/v4-2-jrlindsey.html RMJ
Today, there is a tendency to ... participation because they do not want politics.

That link turns the aff, strengthens political elites and stifles progressive solutions to racism and discrimination
Lindsey ’07 Jason R., Dept PolSci @ St. Cloud State U, MN; "Rethinking the Political: Taking Baudrillard's “Silent Majorities” Seriously;” Int’l Journal of Baudrillard Studies Vol. 4 No. 2; July 2007; http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol4_2/v4-2-jrlindsey.html RMJ
Thus, we have again a simple binary function. ... that the silent majorities disdain.

D rule
Nieutvenhuis 10 – Jan Nieutvenhuis, prof mgmt + pcy studies; “Social Justice in Education Today, Acta Academica, 43.1
Accept the geo-historical context of the ... respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Vote negative to reconceptualize politics from an anthropological angle – engaging popular culture and consumptive patterns is key to effective politics – the round is a question of competing methodologies to improve politics
Lindsey ’07 Jason R., Dept PolSci @ St. Cloud State U, MN; "Rethinking the Political: Taking Baudrillard's “Silent Majorities” Seriously;” Int’l Journal of Baudrillard Studies Vol. 4 No. 2; July 2007; http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol4_2/v4-2-jrlindsey.html RMJ
However, what is their alternative? As of yet, ... Le Pen and the Front National in France.

Any permutation of the cultural and the political will fail – the masses are an inertial black hole that refuses political forces like the AC – also, analysts ascribe indifference to bad policies, not active resistance – removing all political mandates is critical to observing the masses without outside influence – that recognizes agency which is critical to solvency
Baudrillard ‘83 Jean, prof. sociology @ a bunch of places, incl. the European Graduate School (Saas-Fee), Univ. Paris, etc.; “In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities ... Or the End of the Social, and Other Essays,” transl. Paul Foss, Paul Patton and John Johnston; 1983, Semiotext(e), Columbia Univ.; http://autonomousuniversity.org/sites/default/files/Baudrillard_Shadow-of-the-Silent-Majorities.pdf  RMJ
The whole chaotic constellation of the social revolves ... order that is in danger of paying the price).

AC

Legitimacy flips neg – forcing people to vote is illegitimate
Malkopoulou  11 Anthoula Malkopoulou, pol sci @ University of Jyväskylä (Finland), fmly @ University of Uppsala; “DEMOCRACY’S DUTY: THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL DEBATES ON COMPULSORY VOTING;” 2011; https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/bitstream/handle/123456789/37907/978-951-39-4759-0.pdf?sequence=1 RMJ
Yet, for opponents of mandatory voting, ... the option of not participating at all.

Alt causes to low US turnout make it inevitable – election culture, separation of powers, and plurality system
Hill and Louth ’04 Lisa Hill, PhD in Politics from Oxford, Rhodes Scholar, prof. politics at Univ Adelaide, and Jonathon Louth, PhD and prof. Politics Univ Adelaide; Compulsory Voting Laws and Turnout: Efficacy and Appropriateness; Australasian Political Studies Association Conference University of Adelaide 29 September - 1 October 2004; http://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/docs_papers/Aust2520Pol/Hill26Louth.pdf RMJ
Changing the character of elections ... US and Canada, might be conceivable.49