The Great Election Fraud: Manufactured Choices Make a Mockery of Our Republic
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.”
Gene Sharp, political science professor
The U.S. Supreme Court was right to keep President Trump’s name on the ballot.
The high court’s decree that the power to remove a federal candidate from the ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban” rests with Congress, not the states, underscores the fact that in a representative democracy, the citizenry—not the courts, not the corporations, and not the contrived electoral colleges—should be the ones to elect their representatives.
Unfortunately, what is being staged is not an election. It is a mockery of an election.
This year’s presidential election, much like every other election in recent years, is what historian Daniel Boorstin referred to as a “pseudo-event”: manufactured, contrived, confected and devoid of any intrinsic value save the value of being advertised.
For the next eight months, Americans will be dope-fed billions of dollars’ worth of political propaganda aimed at persuading them that:
- their votes count
- the future of this nation—nay, our very lives—depends on who we elect as president
- electing the right candidate will fix everything that is wrong with this country.
Incredible, isn’t it, that in a country of more than 330 million people, we are given only two choices for president?
The system is rigged, of course.
Forcing the citizenry to choose between two candidates who are equally unfit for office does not in any way translate to having some say in how the government is run.
Indeed, no matter what names are on the presidential ballot, once you step away from the cult of personality politics, you’ll find that beneath the power suits, they’re all alike.
The candidate who wins the White House has already made a Faustian bargain to keep the police state in power.
We’ve been down this road before.
Barack Obama campaigned on a message of hope, change and transparency, and promised an end to war and surveillance. Yet under Obama, government whistleblowers were routinely prosecuted, U.S. arms sales skyrocketed, police militarization accelerated, and surveillance became widespread.
Donald Trump swore to drain the swamp in Washington DC. Instead of putting an end to the corruption, however, Trump paved the way for lobbyists, corporations, the military industrial complex, and the Deep State to feast on the carcass of the dying American republic.
We’ve been mired in this swamp for decades now.
Joe Biden has been no different. If his job was to keep the Deep State in power, he’s been a resounding success.
Follow the money. It always points the way.
With each new president, we’ve been subjected to more government surveillance, more police abuse, more SWAT team raids, more roadside strip searches, more censorship, more prison time, more egregious laws, more endless wars, more invasive technology, more militarization, more injustice, more corruption, more cronyism, more graft, more lies, and more of everything that has turned the American dream into the American nightmare.
What we’re not getting more of: elected officials who actually represent us.
No matter who wins the presidential election come November, it’s a sure bet that the losers will be the American people if all we’re prepared to do is vote.
After all, there is more to citizenship than the act of casting a ballot for someone who, once elected, will march in lockstep with the dictates of the powers-that-be.
Yet as long as Americans are content to let politicians, war hawks and Corporate America run the country, the police state will prevail.
“Total continuity” is how Chris Hedges refers to the manner in which the government’s agenda remains unchanged no matter who occupies the Executive Branch. “Continuity of government” (COG) is the phrase policy wonks use to refer to the unelected individuals who have been appointed to run the government in the event of a “catastrophe.”
You can also refer to it as a shadow government, or the Deep State, which is comprised of unelected government bureaucrats, corporations, contractors, paper-pushers, and button-pushers who actually call the shots behind the scenes.
Whatever term you use, the upshot remains the same: on the national level, we’re up against an immoveable, intractable, entrenched force that is greater than any one politician or party, whose tentacles reach deep into every sector imaginable, from Wall Street, the military and the courts to the technology giants, entertainment, healthcare and the media.
This is no Goliath to be felled by a simple stone.
This is a Leviathan disguised as a political savior.
So, what is the solution to this blatant display of imperial elitism disguising itself as a populist exercise in representative government?
Stop playing the game. Stop supporting the system. Stop defending the insanity. Just stop.
Washington thrives on money, so stop giving them your money. Stop throwing your hard-earned dollars away on politicians and Super PACs who view you as nothing more than a means to an end. There are countless worthy grassroots organizations and nonprofits—groups like The Rutherford Institute—working to address real needs like injustice, poverty, homelessness, etc. Support them and you’ll see change you really can believe in in your own backyard.
Politicians depend on votes, so stop giving them your vote unless they have a proven track record of listening to their constituents, abiding by their wishes and working hard to earn and keep their trust.
It’s comforting to believe that your vote matters, but presidents are selected, not elected. Despite what is taught in school and the propaganda that is peddled by the media, a presidential election is not a populist election for a representative. Rather, it’s a gathering of shareholders to select the next CEO, a fact reinforced by the nation’s archaic electoral college system.
In other words, your vote doesn’t elect a president. Despite the fact that there are 218 million eligible voters in this country (only half of whom actually vote), it is the electoral college, made up of 538 individuals handpicked by the candidates’ respective parties, that actually selects the next president.
The only thing you’re accomplishing by taking part in the “reassurance ritual” of voting is sustaining the illusion that we have a democratic republic.
In actuality, we are suffering from what political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page more accurately term an “economic élite domination” in which the economic elite (lobbyists, corporations, monied special interest groups) dominate and dictate national policy.
No surprise there.
As an in-depth Princeton University study confirms, democracy has been replaced by oligarchy, a system of government in which elected officials represent the interests of the rich and powerful rather than the average citizen.
As such, presidential elections merely serve to maintain the status quo. Once elected president, that person becomes part of the dictatorial continuum that is the American imperial presidency today.
So how do we prevail against the tyrant who says all the right things and does none of them? How do we overcome the despot whose promises fade with the spotlights? How do we conquer the dictator whose benevolence is all for show?
We get organized. We get educated. We get active.
Whether you vote or don’t vote doesn’t really matter. What matters is what else you’re doing to push back against government incompetence, abuse, corruption, graft, fraud and cronyism.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that the only road to reform is through the ballot box.
If you feel led to vote, fine, but if all you do is vote, “we the people” are going to lose.
If you abstain from voting and still do nothing, “we the people” are going to lose.
If you give your proxy to some third-party individual or group to fix what’s wrong with the country and that’s all you do, then “we the people” are going to lose.
If, however, you’re prepared to turn off the television, tune out the talking heads, untether yourself from whatever piece of technology you’re affixed to, wean yourself off the teat of the nanny state, and start flexing those unused civic muscles, then there might be hope for us all.
For starters, know your rights and then put that knowledge into action. What we desperately need is a concerted, collective commitment to the Constitution’s principles of limited government, a system of checks and balances, and a recognition that they—the president, Congress, the courts, the military, the police, the technocrats and plutocrats and bureaucrats—answer to and are accountable to “we the people.”
Second, think nationally but act locally. Understand how your local government is structured. Who serves on your city council and school boards? What recourse does the community have to voice concerns about local problems or disagree with decisions by government officials? Are your locally elected officials accessible and open to what you have to say? Are your police chiefs being appointed from within your community? Who runs your local media? Does your newspaper report on local events? Who are your judges?
Third, don’t stop doing the hard work of holding your government accountable. Don’t let personal politics and party allegiances blind you to government misconduct and power grabs. This will mean holding all three branches of government accountable to the Constitution (i.e., vote them out of office if they abuse their powers). And it will mean making the president play by the rules of the Constitution.
Finally, don’t remain silent in the face of government injustice, corruption, or ineptitude. Speak truth to power.
A healthy, representative government is hard work. It takes a citizenry that is informed about the issues, educated about how the government operates, and willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stay involved. It also takes a citizenry willing to do more than grouse and complain.
We must act—and act responsibly.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, any hope of restoring our freedoms and regaining control over our runaway government must start from the bottom up. And that will mean re-learning step by painful step what it actually means to be a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.”
Originally published via the Rutherford Institute
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected]. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.
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Incredibly shortsighted.
The very quote at the top of the page proves WHO the Dictators are in America – the Bureaucracy, Uni-Party, Deep State and Democrats – breaking every Law possible to keep an outsider and real competitor off the ballot.
“Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.”
This is why so many Americans will vote Trump – the enemy of the Status Quo.
Another article about the election with no mention of Robert Kennedy
I wouldn’t trust a Kennedy as far as I could throw him. But he’s the smartest and most articulate shill I’ve heard in a while. Getting RFK Jr. onto the ballot and forcing his presence onto the stage of this TV show, accomplishes several useful strategic objectives: 1) It ‘spoils” things for the establishment uniparty and exposes their artificiality. 2) The “spoiler” aspect works to our advantage no matter which (Trump or Biden) get selected. Both sides will be forced to admit that he spoiled it for them. Therefore any pseudo drama over another “stolen election” will be rendered null and void. 3) RFK Jr.’s relative presence in the “race” forces the “COVID” psyop onto center stage. It corners both major party candidates (especially Trump) on the scamdemic and its implications. Gutless Americans (especially MAGA Republicucks) would love to make excuses for Trump’s “Warp Speed” and his “declaration of national… Read more »
Yeah weird that. reduces the quality of the article considerably. I get the argument that the 2 party system is a shame and the opposite of real democracy but hello there is a credible independent candidate now getting considerable popular support and with the added credibility of the establishment activity trying to block him
RFK jnr is a ray of hope, sure not perfect but light years ahead of the dem/rep scam
You people spend far more time and energy on advocating the “don’t vote” position than I’ve ever done on actually voting. If voting is a waste of time, then so to is advocating for “don’t vote”. So please explain your logic. Why do you care whether other people vote or not?
This is an act of submission that rulers seek not your meaningless vote. Unless you are fooled and think you have a say it is a waste of your own time. If you want to waste your time there are many other meaningless activities all year around, pick one. By voting you legitimate outcome of inherently rigged elections you are obliged to accept and de facto legitimate those who assume political power as a result. Voters have no legal foundation for complaining as it is their own government. So if you vote don’t complain submit. Throughout history about two thirds of eligible American citizens did not vote for actually installed POTUS. It is not a democratic process it is a show of submission to power. If you are born slave and like to submit to power go ahead America is still free country for those who want make fools of… Read more »
How I use my time is none of your fucking business!
Typical electoral infantilism the system counts on and people like up you never fail to deliver,
It’s worth voting for Trump & co just to piss off people like you!
With each new president, we’ve been subjected to more government surveillance, more police abuse, more SWAT team raids, more roadside strip searches, more censorship, more prison time, more egregious laws, more endless wars, more invasive technology, more militarization, more injustice, more corruption, more cronyism, more graft, more lies, and more of everything that has turned the American dream into the American nightmare. THIS is what keeps the madness going…because so far it’s been used almost exclusively against “Them” – i.e., the others, the downtrodden, the ghetto dwellers, the dark skinned ones. Granted the much vaunted “middle class” has screamed and cried for decades that the wrong arm of the Law was coming for them; but so far it hasn’t (except in fantasy land). So the good folks of America keep the voting machines well oiled and rolling. They know in their sacred heart of hearts that Uncle Sam still loves… Read more »
A bit curious that in an election with a viable independent candidate with the name Kennedy that he is never mentioned. Now if he is not allowed in the debates he really has no chance, but if he is. . . crazy sh*t could happen. Of course, crazy sh*t is going to happen prior to the election but we just don’t know what kind of crap. In a normal two-party establishment puppet election I would agree, but we’re in completely uncharted territory and this article feels more like a filibuster that ignores the drama we’re living through. If we actually make it to this election without some “emergency” intervention it may be the last with any meaning for quite some time.
Scott Ritter says:
“We [the U$ government] are doubling down, tripleing down on stupid”
https://youtu.be/2ssgyEN0BMc?si=-2GLbPYlCyaVMDm5
So are “we” [the people] who elect those stupids.
God made idiots, and idiots made congressmen.
You are blaming God so the Devil is an angel yes? The Devil didnt do anything.
This is what you are saying.
For Off-G readers it should be obvious. At this point participation in inherently undemocratic US “elections” or rather selections of imposed de facto traitors of American nation is nothing but self emasculating, morally demeaning and degrading futile exercise of utter political impotence and deliberate disenfranchisement from political process that today is happening in the streets not in splashed with blood US Congress that was from the start nothing but a mausoleum to dead Democracy. There is one thing to preserve horrific status-quo Americans can do. Crawl into a voting booth and in a ritualistic sacrifice to raw power vote..self emasculate sovereign power senselessly. Today, US voter is the real enemy of democracy, he is the one who wants to make sure that US is going to hell run by genocidal clique of blood and profit thirsty US oligarchs who would not hesitate to squeeze profits from last human corpse. Thankfully… Read more »
The definition of insanity:
Doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
Continuity of Government (COG) https://intelnews.org/2020/03/18/01-2740 US Military Given “Continuity of Government” Standby Orders for COVID-19 Pandemic March 18, 2020 For the first time in the modern history of the United States, the Department of Defense has been given standby orders to ensure the “continuity of government”, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. . . . “Above-Top Secret” contingency plans are now in place . . . Standby orders have been issued for a series of plans under the US Northern Command (NORTHCOM), . . . as a homeland defense military authority. These operations are codenamed OCTAGON, FREEJACK and ZODIAC, said Newsweek, and include CONPLAN 3400 (homeland defense if the US itself is the battlefield), CONPLAN 3500 (defending civil authorities in an emergency), and CONPLAN 3600 (defending the National Capital Region from an attack). Newsweek added that the Defense Secretary, Mark T. Esper, has authorized NORTHCOM to “prepare to deploy” in… Read more »
Almost nothing is known about the content of the plan..
We do know that
-there is no such disease as covid
-withholding nutritious food or treatment for various illnesses, or enforcing “experimental” jabs, simplifies the cull of “useless eaters” and transfer of wealth to the Eloi.
“We do know that there is no such disease as Covid”.
Speak for yourself. “We” know different: CoViD (Corona Virus Disease) has been one of the flu virus family for millions of years. About 1/5th of annual flu is due to Corona viruses — always has been.
“Voila l’Anglais avec son sangue froide habituelle” (Here comes that Englishman with his usual bloody cold).
Covid-19 (aka SARS-2) is the world’s first GMO Corona virus; it is a test tube baby, and its GMO $pike Protein was designed to attack human bloodvessels (Moderna Pharmaceutical Corp, U$ Patent App 2016).
There will be more and better GMO viruses in the U$ armory. Bio will stand side by side with Nuclear as a threat to humanity — unless organizations such as CND are resurrected to save humankind from its folly.
NickM & mgeo: I suspect that you’re both ‘partially’ correct, i.e. according to the acknowledged x’perts.
Firstly, my two-celled neutrons suggest that if the phantom-virus was natural, any licencing-patent would not have been allowed or legal, not even in America where common sense appears to have been placed in suspension. Therefore, COVID19 must be a pseudo-brand moniker, effectively ‘registered in 2015 by R’XYZ’fellas, and of course, for good measure, phucked-around with by Fauci and his team, at Fort Dietrich and phuck knows who else, before Ralphy and Wuhan, The Wuhan move was a well-planned tactical move – ostensibly to ensure that the Chinese element was ‘captured’. Always good to ensnare foreigners to stir-the-fear/racist pot, when required. This ensured that the boogeyman is in-play for ensuing tactical mind-phuckery, by US alphabet-spivs … you understand how it is … After all, US Defence-Industries and American peeps need jobs, eh.
By US imperial law, anything including the results of bio-piracy can be patented, including
-. natural or traditional substances
-. original or modified microbes, animal cells or patient cells.
The government itself is the patent holder of many such pathogens and their purported cures.
Yes, U$ patent laws have been relaxed to include things which were previously regarded as products of God or Nature, such as Genes and Mathematical formulae. All this to increase the scope for Litigation and Control.
Good deflection from covid to corona viruses. There is no such virus as claimed, despite extensive research and calls to governments. There is no definition of the purported disease; hence, clinical confirmation is not possible. We do have a souped-up spike protein. Like other ingredients of the jab potion, it attacks every part of the body without exception.
Getting the military ready for overt Bio Warfare.
Why else do you think the U$A and Germany set up so many Bio labs in NATZO occupied Ukraine? Why else do you think the U$A funds a Covid-19 Lab in Wuhan, China?
To do good? 😇
Manufactured reality is by definition a replica or modelling of and not a substitution for, reality.
Reality is Self-Evident or Self-Revealing – in that it is not withheld.
Manufactured constructs by definition focus on weighted specifics that determine priority, prominence or absence from the model.
A democratic ‘reality’ shares in its fruits or consequences, according to the aggregate of votes – of captive mindshare – staked in manipulations of a staked investment in divergent models – as IF competing truths rather than competition to take the position of manufacturing the truth to gain the function of a fiction given power by sacrifice.
Saving the model or appearances is a form of ‘saving the world’ in terms of stakeholder investment.
Jesus parable of the tenant landlords applies.
Killing the messengers of truth is attack on our own true sustenance – regardless they are pre-emptively demonised for targeting unhealed hate.
Republican or Democrat. Tory or Labour. As Galloway rightly says, “Two cheeks of the same arse.”
It doesn’t matter in there are only one or two parties or ten. The system remains rigged.
When “Parties” are promoted and funded, the politicians will punt those funders if they win in any even. It has zilch to do with the people.
In order to create the illusion of democracy, a voter needs to offered a minimum of two choices. Any less than two and it starts to look a bit like…er..
everywhere else
First, Happy 56th Independence Day to all the Mauritians reading this. Ansam Nou Avanse, viv lil Moris! 2nd, SCOTUS would obviously keep Trump’s name on the ballot — that ruling was all theater performed to gain back credibility lost when they allowed election fraud in 2020 as well as tyrannical COVID mandates. Even when they “struck down” Biden’s vaccine mandate in Jan 2022 — they didn’t do so for “healthcare” workers. That’s why it went from the right HATING Scotus in early 2022 and the left supporting it….right up until the reversal of Roe v Wade. Then the right began caping for the corrupt Supreme Court of the U.S. and the left began hating it. So it’s all just theater and Trump is still the corrupt, establishment “controlled op” figure he’s been since 2015-ish when he suddenly became a Republican. The two-party ruse is deliberate; in fact, the reason they’re… Read more »
Well, this has gone on far too long. I can’t remember how long I and others have been talking about how it’s all a farce, both political parties are just two sides of the same coin, it doesn’t matter who is elected president, etc. So, it’s not really any different this time, just taken to about the most extreme it can get. Unless they try to trot out Jimmy Carter, dead or alive, against GHW Bush’s corpse, who only served one term too. Why not fucking get it over with. It’s times like this I’m reminded of a comment by Eugene Debs, the famed socialist activist and presidential candidate for the Socialist Party, who said way back, around 1903, that “The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and… Read more »
” Did you know that they have elections in North Korea? The ballots feature one candidate, a candidate who has been chosen by the party. The ballot box is monitored by a party official. It is supplied with a red pen so that voters can strike through the candidate’s name. If a majority of voters use the red pen to reject the party’s candidate a new candidate is chosen and another election is held. I am told that similar elections in Communist China occasionally overrule the party’s first choice.
When we hold elections, it seems that we fear that the forceful hand of government, (a government that assumes to have the authority to touch everything that is important to us), may pretend to represent our foolish neighbors for a term. This fear is so compelling that few of us even consider using the red pen. ”
https://markgresham.substack.com/p/a-chinese-theater
Welcome to The American States Assemblies
https://mega.nz/file/h5MW3bKK#gnXFiJnV5gZC7e7BcLEbDo1Ov0ui-BZxvuOkxt1ygaU
Your Government
Your Government is supposed to be staffed by you.
Its decisions are supposed to be made by you.
Its primary responsibility is to protect you and your property assets at all costs and against all comers.
That’s why governments exist.
And that is the only reason for any government to exist, ever.
But what if your government doesn’t protect you?
Continue: https://tasa.americanstatenationals.org/
Learn More About Your Real Government:
https://states.americanstatenationals.org/educational-information-2/
Charles Bukowski (Poet, writer and Truth teller) :
‘The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.‘
It’s only March and the race for the year’s most contemptuously cretinous headline is underway from inverse.com:
“Who Owns the Moon? The Race For Lunar Real Estate Is An Impending Ethical Nightmare
More missions to the Moon mean more chances for values, cultures, and priorities to collide.”
Australia’s moon mission:
blob:https://off-guardian.org/285937d6-6f19-4f65-8f03-538019de5455
Pull the udder one…
“Ethical” is rubbing it in our faces. As if these people bother with even basic humane considerations.
One entrepreneur was selling lots on the moon a few years ago. BTW, even China seems too busy to provide any photo of any of the US manned landing sites.
Manned?
Hope they’ve got a good stock of toilet paper and protein snacks
“The minute you give value to a thing, the thing owns you.”…(anon)
To say both candidates are equally unqualified is wrong. Biden is senile. Also, Trump did not get a chance to do anything as he was hounded from the minute he announced. Not saying he would have or could have changed anything, but pray tell how something other than a bus-sized meteor striking during a joint session of Congress could help. “Fighting” clearly hasn’t and cannot work because we’re surrounded, engulfed by madness. No cash bail? 10 million illegals? WWIII? censorship, fake elections? No gas stoves? Global warming insanity? War on farmers? Transgenderism? Vaccine Mandates? Which red-hot pot of coals will the author take up and carry to the bitter end (as the remaining ones eat him alive)?
“Trump did not get a chance to do anything”
Trump did at least two things:
Repaid his Israeli / American dual citizen backer. Sheldon Adelson, with interest; gave him a few $Billion tax cuts in return for a few $Million election expenses
Gave additional tens of $Billions present in military aid to the first country of his Israeli / American dual citizen son-in-law, advisor to Israel’s racist Yahoo regime..
Actually, Trump was the mastermind of Operation Warpspeed and was able to get vaccines for Covid-19 in only 9 months instead of 10 years and was able to personally save millions of lives.
Come on, man.
Poor, poor “Trump did not get a chance,” they were so mean to him, his advisors either “tricked him” or “lied to him” about everything. They “tricked him” into locking down the country, throwing 10s of millions out of work in March 2020 and becoming #1 vax salesman-which he remains to this day. Trump in 2016 said to vote for him because he was the one person who could stand up to bureaucrats. If you make promises to get a job, then fail to keep the promises–for whatever reason–you simply resign. That’s what Trump should’ve done, no later than 2018. The reasons why he didn’t do the job, such as making Jared Kushner de facto president or surrendering to Lindsey Graham, are irrelevant. In 2016 Candidate Trump every single day unconditionally promised desperate Americans a wall on day one. If he’d once said he’d have to ask congress for permission… Read more »
Trump did something. He made real jobs, stopped the immigration, and stopped the socialist abuse of the elderly.
He tried to bring the troops home for something better, and didnt start a new war in his time. Made friendship with N-Korea and was respected in Russia.
Trump kicked the WHO out and stopped the Clima Green bs. Trump did something.
Democracy is the idea where the majority of voters makes decisions. It’s the stupidest way ever to make any decisions. Of course it leads to the tyranny of the oligarchs. They are most manipulative, professional liars, serving their own interests.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-debunking-democracy
Its an inefficient way to make decisions but it is the most inclusive. But it has also become a ‘golden calf’ and many truly horrific things have been carried out in the recent past in the name of Democracy. What do you propose as an alternative ?. Before Democracy there were Kings & Khans & Emperors and Oligarchies. In terms of world history, democracy has only existed as an idea for the blink of an eye. I know that it is anarchist belief that all of the problems of the world are the result of the state that can only exist because of its monopoly of coercive force, but if that were suddenly to disappear, the world is not going to instantly become a better place. People would have to be completely deprogrammed and re-educated for that to have any chance of not ending up in a dystopian nightmare….and that’s… Read more »
The government doesn’t just end up with an oligarchy. It starts with an oligarchy. A small group forms a government. The whole society – meaning all people – are never the government or in the government. They are governed. The written history of kings and empires and their wars is their history. It is not the history of humanity. Most people here have never had anything to do with those things. Voting about everything: what a terrible idea! Decisions should never be made by majority vote, opinions, because it’s so stupid. Think about it. The majority who failed the Milgram test will decide how you will be treated in society. How is it anything but stupid to let the ignorant make decisions for everyone? Or in anything? Plato writes about Socrates, the wisest man in Greece, who was sentenced to death by majority vote. The numbers were 280 for the… Read more »
Not every government starts out as oligarchy. E.g., after a revolution. However, by the end of its term, it is usually bribed, subverted, blackmailed or menaced to participate in the national oligarchy with the local plutocrats and cosmopolitan parasites.
Thank you Human Values, I don’t agree with you but you are well read and thoughtful and I appreciate your considered response. Plato yes…. The Symposium is probably one of the most brilliant works of literature and philosophy. Obviously Plato hated Democracy as most of the ancient intellectuals did, but also remember what Plato was. He was a wealthy Aristocrat very much of his time. Plato really is the Elitists Elitist. The Elite absolutely love him. He really is the foundation of your ideological enemies. Most of the ideas of the the Great Reset, depopulation etc are even directly present in his writings. A bit of advice:- ‘Don’t go FULL Plato, nobody goes FULL Plato ! ‘ (to parody a movie.) The Milgram test, thats a great point actually. But it doesn’t mean that we should discard the idea of all human agency and of allowing people to have a… Read more »
Voting about persons is ridiculous. The judgement of persons shall off course be done in Court by Judges who are neutral and not involved.
The majority of sheeple is and will always be wrong.
Did you know banning of men’s right to beat his household and his servants only happened in Europe from 1922.
The Bible Gentlemen. God has already duly advised us on how to live a life here.
If the Amish people can do it, why cant we?
“What do you propose as an alternative ?.”
Direct Democracy via internet voting on every issue in Parliament. Every citizen duty to “zoom” into Parliament, post opinion and vote..
“The House of Parliament at Westminster was a good game for the ruling class but it has been played out. Time for the entire public to debate and vote directly.”
— Jerome Kafka Jerome, Late Victorian novelist
OK, so Kafka suggested this, thats really interesting. I didn’t know that.
Its an interesting idea isn’t it because it is almost the direct opposite of a Techocracy isn’t it.
Its a way to use technology to get rid of politicians completely, remove them from the system. It would probably produce some really bad decisions sometimes but it would also be extremely difficult to influence or corrupt (or at least be a lot more expensive to do so.)
Edit, Jerome K Jerome, sorry not to be confused with F Kafka.
Switzerland has such a democracy. Elsewhere, it is just multi-party hoopla financed by the biggest cosmopolitan rogues.
China has democracy (democratic policies) with almost no public elections. If you want to delve further, look up Larry Romanoff or Godfree Roberts at unz.com
What do you need the government for, if citizens need to do everything: citizens need to be ”informed about the issues, educated about how the government operates, and willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stay involved”, and on top of that, ”doing the hard work of holding your government accountable”?
Without a government John Whitehead will end up writing book reviews …
The Irish referendum doesn’t appear to have been rigged – unless the real ‘no’ vote was even bigger.
Not every election is therefore corrupt. November could be played either way – Trump strolls back and the ensuing disaster is all his fault or the election is stolen again hoping to provoke a reaction to which everyone can guess the solution. It’s structured win/win so no fix may be necessary.
The ritual was performed on a new moon day (last new moon) before the equinox (322) discussing women = nature fertility reproduction.
you couldn’t have a bigger ritual.
Its all happening as planed
The First Mercury Retrograde of 2024 begins with the Pre-Shadow in Aries on March 19 at approx. 3:02 am then on
Mar 25th an Lunar Eclipse in Libra..
I see our Politicians as a mirror of ourselves. If they are bad its because we are bad.
Ask Georg Carlin: Politicians https://youtu.be/bctIeplWV1c The public sucks
Trump’s VP pick will be a big tell. If he goes establishment (Tim Scott) he may get elected and they’ll get him out in any way they can and everything follows the plan, but if he went with Vivek or even Tulsi (though I doubt it), then I think he might be more serious and things get very interesting.
We look at the US election from a long way off and we are glad to that far away. It is exceptional that this exceptional nation chooses from over 200 million adults only two candidates for its presidency. More extraordinary is that those two are an incumbent senile psychopath and a former president who is a proven narcissistic imbecile.
It really doesn’t matter how many multimillionaires there are to elect from.
American presidents were slaveholders since the beginning of their rule. Now they are ancestors of slaveholders.
”President Joe Biden and every living former U.S. president – except Donald Trump – are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and – through his white mother’s side – Barack Obama. Trump’s ancestors came to America after slavery was abolished.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/
I don’t know why more people aren’t worried about Project 2025. (What happens in the US spreads across the world.) Embedded within its DNA is a blueprint to scrap all pretence of democracy and to replace presidents with untouchable dictators. The transnational ruling class are very calmly and very directly telling us to our faces that they are going to scrap the farce of fake democracy and replace it with tyranny and terror instead. They can get away with it because it will be wrapped in the virtue of religion. None of the ‘independent’ media are interested, which speaks volumes about their allegiances.
A simple summation, from an earlier age of fascism, by Peruvian president Oscar Benavides (1933-39) of how ruling class politics, the oldest profession, works:
To my friends, everything; to my enemies, the law.
See also Dubya:
This is an impressive crowd – the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base.”
It’s always been an oligarchy even from the beginning….
What crack have y’all been smoking?
The Constitution was so lacking that they had to AMEND it with the bill of rights, because people were protesting the lack of rights in the Constitution!
https://www.michaeltsarion.com/constitution-con.html
“We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.” – Judge Charles Evans Hughes
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ― Benjamin Franklin
They’ll come up with any wedge issue to divide and rule us.
Where oh where is the chosen one to lead us to the promised land?
“I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition; as it is now, the capitalists use your heads and your hands.”-Eugene Debs
For those of us who live in the West, a preview of things to come?
https://nypost.com/2024/03/10/world-news/haitis-barbecue-gang-leader-behind-revolt-to-oust-prime-minister/
Those 60% of eligible voters who vote in prez elections, or so we are told, BELIEVE. But in local and state elections only 25-30% vote, with electeds like NYC Mayor Adams and gov Jerry Brown in 2014 getting 20%<. The impending Nov Two-Baboons Race should notch all time low participation. And since the two parties are PMAs, they can act outside the law to sabotage RFK Jr. But he already sabotaged himself by agreeing to be an Israeli war supporter. The Green Party has been internally undermined from any credibility by Demo Party saboteur egomaniacs. And all the parties/candidates run by personality, "better stories" and FAKE promises only hinted at, with fixed policy guarantees non-existent. Until we develop and vote for policies among ourselves and oversee all management and staff to implement OUR policies or be fired, we're stuck in the elite's butt-stupid highway-to-hell. BTW, i have no idea how… Read more »
We’ve known about this for years — “No matter who you vote for the government always gets in”. So don’t expect radical change from your votes — except that electing extremists from the current Republican party is likely to end up causing serious social problems. We’ve already seen the economic devastation caused by decades of so-called ‘conservative’ rule — its not conservative in a traditional sense, but more a ‘help yourself’ / freedom for corporations to do whatever they want. Now we’re seeing social extremism — suppression of women’s rights, suppression of freedom of speech, banning of books and other information…..and there’s plenty more to come.
Part of the traditional election strategy is to persuade people likely to oppose you that their votes either don’t count or “they’re all the same”.
Yeah, funny thing though, just how hard have democrats worked to overturn the free for all for multi billionaires? Not very hard, at all. So there’s plenty of blame for both sides of the aisle on that. Maybe Joe pays lip service about going after them cause he’s not yet one of them? Hmmmmm…..
“Two cheeks of the same arse” — George Galloway.
Until we elect more politicians like Galloway — ready to stand up against “manufactured consent”, be expelled and come back fighting — incompetent government by limp puppets will continue to be the rule..
George Galloway interviews Rania Khalek on Genocide Joe sending military aid to Genocidal Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6brSu6VmeMs
Follow the money: U$ & UK Oligarchhs are clinging on to their last holdings in the oil-rich Middle East, and Israel is their “unsinkable aircraft carrier”. A gallant but hopeless struggle by Biden and Sunak, because U$UK have already lost our hold on Iran and KSA, and are in process of losing Syria, Iraq and some of the Gulf Oil sheikdoms.
The system is fine, it’s working exactly as the “Founding Fathers” intended it to, per their statements in places such as the Federalist Papers. It was designed as a cover for rule by a rich elite, while presenting the image that everyone took a part in the decision making.
Renewing Historical Materialism ( see the section on The Demos vs ‘We the People’)
https://solidarity-us.org/atc/68/p2198/
Exactly right. It is in fact the very definition of a Republic.
The Roman Republic was controlled by the Senate and the Senate was constituted of Wealthy Aristocrats. There was no room for the views of the Plebeins at all, they were simply expected to Join the Legions and die for the glory of Rome.
Yes rigged from the start. These constitutionalists are deluded.
The Constitution was so lacking that they had to AMEND it with the bill of rights, because people were protesting the lack of rights in the Constitution!
https://www.michaeltsarion.com/constitution-con.html
“We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.” – Judge Charles Evans Hughes
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.”
That’s priceless.
Good article, an excerpt: “Oftentimes “democracy” is used today to mean not rule by the people (however limited “the people” or what they get to rule over), but as synonymous with liberalism — i.e. guaranteed constitutional and procedural rights<197>or even implicitly with capitalism, as in reports of the extension of “democracy” in former Soviet bloc countries. Thus the alleged triumph of democracy comes at the expense of its core social meaning. Civil Society and The Politics of Identity The conservative hostility to government as oppressive is echoed by some on the left who celebrate “civil society.” The general rejection of statist conceptions of socialism in the wake of Stalinism’s collapse is certainly an advance. Wood argues, however, that current accounts of civil society that present it as a sphere of freedom versus the coercion of the state are one-sided idealizations. In fact, she suggests, one way of understanding the uniqueness… Read more »
Humanity might have a chance if more people start to realise that contemporary Western parliamentary ‘democracy’ has always been – ‘Ballot Box Macht Frei’.
If >50% of the people don’t vote it does do something. It will make them nervous and nervous people tend to get sloppy. If more than 50% of the people don’t approve of their system anymore, things are bound to change.
Voter turnout was 49% in 1996 – since then they’ve kept the figure just over 50% by hook or by crook until last time when it suddenly shot up because Joe Biden was so popular.
Low turnout will either be “idiots not making the small effort required to vote and thus forfeiting any right to a say in anything” or “a massive crisis in legitimacy that requires the existing system be dissolved” depending on whether the eilte want the existing system dissolved. The same fact can be spun either way depending on how they want to play it.
The turnout in 2016 was increased by a program designed to register voters and get them to turn up and vote, often overcoming a lot of obstacles to do so. In that sense the election was ‘rigged’ — it wasn’t people fiddling the vote, that’s difficult to do, but organizing the electorate to get the desired result. This organization even extended to January 6th. where the important thing about those events was that there was no counter-demonstration or rally — Trump and his supporters got to own those events 100% and the organization worked to make it crystal clear. Its important not to confuse ‘playing politics’ with outright vote rigging. Katie Porter, a contender for the vacant US Senate seat in California, was out maneuvered in the reset primaries by her chief opponent, Adam Schiff. Schiff’s efforts ensured that he’d have to face Republican opposition in November which in our… Read more »
Nope. Has to be way lower than that, and not unless it’s coupled with a coordinated, organized campaign to boycott the farce election process as well as promotion of a valid and specific plan on how to change the entire political system or process.