Vote the Cockroaches Out

SUSTAINING THE ILLUSION - VIOLENCE IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY

"As all political systems are grounded in the violent disrespect for individuals and their property interests, each of us is well-advised to keep peering behind the curtains with which the state hides its machinations" - Butler Shaffer

Our local, State, and Federal elections here in the USA, are supposedly a virtuous model for all freedom loving nations around the world to emulate. One man, one vote. Every single vote counts. Alternative  political expression encouraged, and so forth.  The majority think this democratic system of self governance by  ‘We the People’ to be infallible. Sorry to break it to you folks, but ‘democracy’ is certainly not infallible.

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance”, H.L.Mencken.
Old HL’s words never rang so true as they do today in 2012.

In reality, our system of democracy, or ‘majority rules’ government, has become an imaginary illusion. We haven’t  had representative government for many years. Our two political parties, and an all too complicit media, have completely monopolized political expression to a singularity of thought. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum stated it best, when he noted that challenger Mitt Romney’s policy positions are no different than President Barack Obama’s. Both Romney and Obama  have promoted and endorsed the same policies: socialized medicine, man caused global warming cap and trade taxes; big government solutions, taxpayer funded bailouts of the ’too big to fails’, free trade, amnesty for illegal immigrants, you name it.

Just witness the marginalization of Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential candidacy within his own Republican party. How was he marginalized you ask?. Ron Paul was: (1) left out of several of the debates; (2) always positioned at the far end of the stage; (3) not allowed to speak very much; (4) asked questions based upon false premises; (5) asked questions based upon fallacy to set him up for further ridicule by the other establishment candidates on the stage; and (6) labeled as a ‘kook’ for his independent thought; etc.

Ron Paul simply pointed out that spending trillions of dollars that the US doesn’t have, but has to borrow, to bomb cities in foreign countries; destroying their cultures; and slaughtering hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children in the process; all done in the name of ‘democracy’, or fighting ‘terrorism‘;  is a perverted notion.  To the two party political establishment, that is a radical thought indeed. 

The US dollar buys only 50% of the goods it did just 3 years ago when Barrack Obama assumed the office of President of the United States of America. Gasoline and Gold being the two primary indicators of the successful destruction of the US dollar, due to the unsustainable borrowing by this current and past administrations of both political parties. And we all know what creepy crawly sluggish parasitic creatures can be found under a rock, when the rock is turned over and exposed to sunlight. But how dare Ron Paul advocate for a return to the Gold standard, and how dare he call for an audit of the secretive and private Federal Reserve (that controls our money supply and devalues our dollar behind closed doors). Gosh, that audit of the federal reserve might expose the crooks at Goldman Sachs and the control they exert through the revolving personnel door they have with the US Department of the Treasury!  The same crooks that manufactured the ‘Housing Crisis‘, and received the Billion dollar bailout, are continuing to rob the US (us) blind, in secret. Yet, Ron Paul’s integrity is ridiculed, for expressing what many of us already believe.

 This  illusion of democracy is becoming difficult to sustain in America. One doesn’t have to exercise a lot of intellectual brain activity to see through the illusion. The Tea Party sees it clearly from the political right. And the Occupy movement observes much of the same injustices from the left. Both groups can see right through the smoke and mirrors, and neither group seems to be willing to drink the Kool-Aid any more.

But instead of establishing a Federal budget, or trying to stop the hemorrhaging of borrowing at the US Treasury,  or enacting policies that would allow the private sector to be the catalyst to help America create jobs and help America climb back out of the deep hole that we are all in, the President’s winning re-election campaign strategy is to incite violent civil unrest between Americans, inserting himself into a racial tragedy that he has no business commenting upon publicly.  If that doesn‘t work to manufacture a crisis, Obama will attempt to further sustain the illusion of democracy by dividing America by rich vs. poor, black vs. white, private vs. public, the individual vs. the common good, the secular vs. the religious, and so on.  Once We the People are all angry, disobedient, and at warfare with one another,  Obama will then publicly call for tolerance and  calm, like he pulled in the Rep Gabby Giffords of Arizona shooting. Hopefully, the people aren’t going to fall for the illusion this time around.

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