Like betting on cockfights or football games: The whole concept of this thread adequately sums the value of democracy. It is entertainment. It keeps the proles distracted, and dissipates their energies in a way that is harmless to the system.
On Votaries of the VoteLong was I perplexed by the etiology of democracy. In the past, I thought that people who vote must be categorically stupid. But I observed that many otherwise intelligent people vote—just like many otherwise intelligent people believe in fairytales from the Bible.
My conclusion is that
democracy is a religion. It is a faith in the purported “wisdom of crowds”, in
flat contradiction of all evidence that a crowd acts with lower intelligence than its stupidest member. It is a quasi-mystical belief in the
revealed truth of the ballot. Democracy’s First Commandment is that
thou shalt submit to the mass and obey people who are wrong, if they are more numerous than you are.You, the fanatics of this thread, are not merely
voters: You are
votaries.
As sacrifices to the false god of democracy, you lay upon its altar your lives, your fortunes, and your posterity.
I will not speak of honour, for you have none: There is no honour in following the whims of the crowd.
Americans, specifically, also lay upon this false god’s altar the human sacrifice of people living in faraway lands, whom
any of your candidates from either official faction of your ruling party will cheerfully bomb at the drop of a hat. It is the American Way
®, an established tradition of the American world-police holy war to
“make the world safe for democracy”. For only one relatively recent and notorious example, look to Iraq: After 13 years of tormenting that unhappy land with invasions, bombings, and economic strangulation that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children, you overthrew its government, created a power vacuum that invited in Al Qaeda, and rationalized it by broadcasting on your TV screens the images of
Iraqis voting. Ah, the heathens had been converted at last!
Newsflash for Americans: Trump ≈ Biden.The much-ballyhooed “polarization” is only a ploy of media hype, to regenerate interest in an entertainment that had been faltering. Voter turnout rates were plummeting, and that was not “apathy”: It was wising-up! More and more people were realizing that they are under one-party rule, and that the one party is a criminal gang hostile to the interests of the vast majority of Americans. It is a worst-of-all-worlds system that combines the least-desirable features of a dictatorship with the corruption and inefficiency of mob rule: Kakocracy built on ochlocracy.
The illusion was being lost—and with it, the consent of the governed upon which the power of all régimes must ultimately repose.
Vide the (other) Soviet Union: Contrary to American pretensions, the Soviet system did not collapse because of anything that America did. It collapsed because the majority of the people did not believe its lies. Without at least the tacit consent of the governed, even the most brutal tyranny is long-term unstable, and is ultimately doomed unless propped up by external force (as the Soviets and the Americans did and do with their puppets).
The American system is the
ne plus ultra of a slave state: A slave state in which the slaves believe themselves to be free, per Goethe—the true “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, which the (other) Soviets were unable to achieve. It would also unravel, if the American people stopped believing in its illusions.
Thus stepped onstage Trump, a professional showman, to stir the pot just enough to get the enthusiasms flowing both for and against him.
Yes, Orange Bogey is manipulating the idiotic left just as much as he is manipulating the idiotic right: Without Trump, would
anybody be eager to vote for Biden?
Both sides are stupid enough to believe that Trump means what he says in his Presidential Tweets.
I think this means that his opponents must be marginally stupider:
The Trump Derangement Syndrome crowd needs for me to explain to them that Trump is a liar, and his fans are fools, and all of Trump’s grandstanding rhetoric is meaningless. In substance, Trump is approximately equal to Biden—and
vice versa.
(As a matter of form, I will admit that Trump is much more amusing—especially when he makes liberals cry. But that is not an adequate reason to grant your moral endorsement to the scumbag,
and to the system that he represents, by voting for him.)
Dear Americans:Please SHUT UP about your reality-TV “election” show—and don’t vote, unless/until you get a candidate on the ballot in all 50 states who will call on Congress to send up bills abolishing the Federal Reserve and its conjoined twin, the Marxist progressive income tax.[...]
