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Summary - So it’s not the voters in a democratic society who
control things. Instead, it’s the “professionals who know how to
manipulate political procedures.”
Those professional manipulators include
especially those psychopathic personalities attracted to government and
those economic interests that want to use it for their own ends.
As you
may have noticed, eventually the successful manipulators evolve almost
exclusively into those special interests which
can afford to make huge campaign bribes to get the minions elected and to hire
one or more professional lobbyists to influence them even further.)
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History definitively proves that, when
practiced by governments, democracy guarantees
discord, discontent, disharmony, upheaval, chaos, and political disaster, often
leading to totalitarianism.
“But,” you may be thinking already, “How can that be? Isn’t democracy good? Doesn’t it prevent those
things?”
So
you may be surprised to discover that more than half — 58% — of 4 million folks
around the world surveyed in a Cambridge U. study are dissatisfied
with democracy. That’s the highest level of discontent ever recorded in the
survey’s 25 year history. Further, the level of dissatisfaction is particularly
high in the U.S.A. and U.K.
The
New Yorker calls the unprecedented number of world-wide upheavals,
most in democracies, “The Story of 2019.” They’re continuing in 2020.
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For
starters, there are upheavals in The Cradle of Democracy,
Greece — and Bolivia, Ecuador, Iraq, Algeria, Haiti, Hong Kong, Columbia, Sudan, Brazil,
Argentina. And more democracies on the brink. South Africa, Italy, and
“authorities” aren’t too sure about India, etc.
Even Germany. And England, Scotland, Ireland,
Whales and their people are divided over “BREXIT.”
These
shakey democracies include assumed-to-be extremely stable countries such
as Chile,
Spain (Catalonia), Venezuela, Lebanon, even Israel.
Perhaps
most surprising so far is France, with over a year — 60 weeks so far — of
massive street demonstrations, beginning on Nov. 17, 2018 with the “Gilets Jaunes” or “Yellow Vests,” ignited by an increase in petrol tax and
now re-upped by the Orange Vests,
ignited by an attempted government re-form of French “Social Security.”
You
can find a sporadically updated list with links here: UNCOMMON SENSE: Major Demonstrations and Riots .
In
some ways, these uprisings are more focused continuations of the “Occupy” Movements that began in late 2011 and spread
all around the world to at least 951 cities in 82 countries.
The”Occupy Wall Street” branch prompted U.S. President
Barack Obama to quip to the bankers rather appropriately, “My administration is the only thing between you and the
pitchforks.“
And there’s this:
And
that was all before the COVID-19 fiasco and the George Floyd related Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrations all around the world.
Maybe democracy isn’t such a good idea after all?
And do the bankers have something to do with it?
If so, what?
Let’s take a look – – –
Imagine
“we” — that is all approximately 320 million Americans —
went to Baskin & Robbins (or Ben and Jerry’s) but collectively we — even
the folks who didn’t vote — or even eat — all had to buy and pay for the
winning flavor of ice cream — vanilla perhaps. Even when less than half voted
for it. Even when less than half voted at all. –L. Reichard White, What You Mean ‘We,’ Paleface?
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That’s
an example of direct democracy. On the other
hand, we might elect a few folks to decide which flavor of ice cream we all get
and how much we have to pay for it. That would be “representative democracy.”
Clearly
such circumstances should be avoided if at all possible, especially because
when the “majority rules,” there’s always a minority that loses.
The more votes taken, the more losers.
There’s
a third form of democracy which avoids that problem. It’s the one we want, use
in our daily lives, and subconsciously ass-u-me when we hear the word. That’s
probably because it’s almost certainly built-in to our genome. We’ll call that natural democracy.
In natural democracy, folks seek out others who agree with
them and are willing, temporarily at least, to contribute time and/or money to
their mutually agreed upon project(s). They don’t involve those who aren’t
interested in their project(s) and certainly don’t expect the non-interested to
pay for them.
Where natural democracy exists — as practiced by the
original North American inhabitants and other “primitive” folks and in most of
our day-to-day interactions, including voluntary exchanges in markets free of
unwanted third party taxers and pseudo “regulators” — the folks who want
vanilla get and pay for their own vanilla. Even the folks who want Bacon or Razzleberry can
usually get what they want.
And the folks who aren’t
hungry or don’t want ice cream don’t have to pay or even get off the recliner
to vote.
On
the other hand, some of them might voluntarily contribute
to folks they feel need ice cream.
Who would want to do things
any other way?
Because
it’s so difficult, expensive, time-consuming and thus impractical to take
universal votes on everything, direct democracy becomes
unwieldly, even in relatively small groups.
As a
result, despite certain psychological advantages, there are
few groups of any size — and no countries — run by direct democracy.
When
practiced in private groups, however —
where participation is voluntary — both direct democracy and representative democracy approximate natural democracy and so can be useful.
And
because you aren’t forced to belong to such private, voluntary groups — the
PTA, Orthodox church, Mosque, the local paint-ball club, etc. — and those who do
belong are free to easily leave them and/or stop paying dues, they stay mostly
under control or else they disappear.
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However,
once you lose that ability to easily leave a group — and/or to stop paying dues
— the membership loses that easy control and the organization eventually
gets out of control.
Democracy
or not, that “gets out of control” situation always applies to territorial state-based
governments. That’s because, if you live in the geographical area they claim,
those organizations make your membership mandatory, claim jurisdiction over
you, and assert the right to extort your dues as “taxes.” This insight may be what promped U.S. founder
Thomas Jefferson to pen, “The tree of liberty must be
watered periodically with the blood of tyrants and patriots alike.”
And so, lacking meaningful
control, sooner or later territorial states begin to deteriorate towards
discord, discontent, disharmony, upheaval, chaos, and political disaster, often
leading to totalitarianism.
History
— particularly 2019 and 2020 history as above and developing — shows this just
happens a lot faster in democracies. Why do
you suppose?
And
yes, these days the banks — especially the Central Banks — are involved.
And yes, there’s an
alternative form of government that can, temporarily at least, hold the bad
territorial democracies at bey.
Our early American ancestors
understood the dangers of democracy — and of majority rule in general — and
weren’t shy in warning about them – – –
“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities
are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.” –U.S.
“Founding Father” John Adams
“An elective despotism was not the government we fought
for” –Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIII, 1782. ME 2:163
U.S.
“founding father” James Madison was more specific – – –
“Hence it is that such democracies have ever been
spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with
personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short
in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” –James
Madison, Federalist Paper 10:
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That’s
what happens when folks stop minding their own business and start minding
someone else’s.
It’s clear these ancestors
were worried about majorities forcing their will on minorities just as we
should be. Remember that vanilla-ice-cream vote.
And it’s more than well worth
remembering that the smallest minority and the one that really counts is the
individual. That’s you and me, bro.
While
John Adams’ mention of “unlimited despots,”
implicates kings and dictators, it’s democracy that’s
mucking up today’s world.
In
fact, the problems with democracy — I
even had a watered-down Problems Of Democracy (P.O.D.)
class in high-school — were well understood at least through the first third of
the 20th Century as demonstrated by War Department Training Manual TM_2000-25 for
example – – –
Democracy,
n. “A government of the masses. …Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property
is communistic – negating property rights. …Results in demagogism, license,
agitation, discontent, anarchy.” –issued November 30, 1928,
withdrawn and destroyed Spring 1933
And a
few 21st Century folks have been trying to warn us as
well – – –
“All
democracies turn into dictatorships — but not by coup. The people give their
democracy to a dictator, whether it’s Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf
Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea … ” –filmmaker George Lucas, Dark Victory from time.com
“Most
police states, surprisingly, come about through the democratic process with
majority support. During a crisis, the rights of individuals and the minority
are more easily trampled, which is more likely to condition a nation to become
a police state than [is] a military coup. “–Is America a Police State?, Congressman Ron Paul, U.S. House of
Representatives, June 27, 2002
“Auschwitz
didn’t fall suddenly from the sky, Auschwitz crept and tiptoed, taking small
steps, it came closer, until this happened here,” warned Marian Turski, 93, a
Polish-Jewish survivor who called for vigilance against the abuse of
minorities’ rights …. Auschwitz survivors sound alarm 75 years after liberation |
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“The
movie [‘Fahrenheit 11/9‘] is more comparing us [Americans] to the
Germans, the ‘good Germans,‘ one of the most civilized, cultured,
educated, liberal democracies on the planet Earth. And they went along.
…Hitler’s party won 32 percent of the parliament in 1932, …He holds a
plebiscite and asks the people, ‘Yes or no? Are you OK with us,
the Nazis, taking over here?‘ …and the majority of Germans voted ‘yes.‘” –Iconic leftist Michael Moore: Are We Going to Be Like the “Good
Germans”
Despite
this clear and present danger, everyone from Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) to ironically mis-named “Republicans” and even leftist icon Michael Moore — who
spelled out the dangers of democracy just above — are cheering for state-based
democracies, defending them, and trying to foist them on others all around the world.
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And
what is it about democracy that causes all the
discord, discontent, disharmony, upheaval, chaos, and political disaster our
ancestors warned against and we’re seeing today?
While
“the majority rules” obviously causes trouble — sticking
us all with vanilla ice cream and the bill for example — if it can lead to
totalitariansim, there’s got to be more to the story. Doesn’t there?
Yes. But first we need a
little context – – –
A More Durable Form of Government
And
so we come to that alternative form of government that can, temporarily at
least, hold kings, dictators, and the bad territorial democracies at bey.
And protect us individuals from majorities.
For
example, the well-designed Republic crafted
by the U.S. founders. That’s what’s defined and created by The U.S. Constitution. It’s what many of us pledged
allegiance to in school like this – – –
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands.“
Notice
we did not pledge allegiance to a democracy.
Given the nature of
government-in-general – – –
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence; it is
force, and like fire, makes a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” –George Washington
“The State represents violence in a concentrated and
organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless
machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very
existence.” –Mohandas K. Gandhi
– – –
coming up with a safe government of any kind is
clearly a serious challenge.
Because
of the economic interests that want to use them for their own
ends and the psychopathic personalities governments attract —
not to mention mandatory “dues” and membership
— crafting a durable democracy-proof Republic is
particularly difficult.
For starters, it requires an
iron-clad set of rules specifically designed to confine, limit, bind, and
control the minions elected and/or hired to operate and administer it.
Those
rules must keep the minions from transforming the dangerous servant into a fearful master which would then serve those psychopathic personalities and economic interests that want to use it for their own ends but
screw the rest of us.
And then, keeping the
following in mind – – –
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms
[of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow
operations, perverted it into tyranny;” –Thomas
Jefferson, 1778
– – –
it requires eternal vigilence through succeeding generations to keep the minions obeying those iron-clad rules.
It’s
particularly important to keep the minions under control because, remember,
territorial governments make it difficult to quit the group or withhold “dues” once they do get out
of control.
And once they do, as another
of our earlier American ancestors warned,
“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the
legislature is in session.” –Surrogate Judge Gideon J.
Tucker and/or Mark Twain
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From
the Ninth and Tenth amendments to The U.S. Constitution,
you can get a pretty good idea of just how appropriately distrustful the
framers were of the minions and how serious they were about keeping them under
control – – –
Amendment
IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights,
shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment
X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states
respectively, or to the people.
In
other words, the minions can’t use the fact we didn’t list all your rights to
deny you the ones we didn’t list – – – and the U.S.
Government minions have only the
powers we specifically listed
in The Constitution and no others.
As you can tell, the minions
now almost completely ignore both Amendments and have for a long time.
So we
don’t need a government to protect us so much as we need something to protect
us from government — and the folks who are attracted to it.
The U.S. Constitution was quite a good attempt at
doing just that.
What’s
enabled the U.S.A. to survive this long is that until the turn of the 20th Century — 1913 is a good marker as you’ll see
— the minions elected and hired to administer the Republic for the most part followed The Constitution’s rules confining, limiting and
binding them.
Fortunately,
a little of that limited Republic still
lingers on.
Unfortunately,
it’s fading fast. To get a down-and-dirty read on the rate of decline, if you
had Googled “our democracy” on January 6, 2020, you would have found
about 6,980,000 hits while “our republic” got
only 1,650,000, less than 24% as many.
So while we’re not a
full-blown democracy yet, according to that metric, we’re more than 75% there.
Is
the Republic being converted to “our democracy” by mistake or is it by design?
So,
can we add “The United States of America” to the Endangered Democracies list? Will it go full
totalitarian?
And
that brings us back to democracy with
the obvious question: “Which idiots would want to transform a
well-crafted Republic into a doomed democracy?” And why?
And why would folks go along
with it?
Here’s the first clue – – –
…the model has discovered a fundamental flaw in
democratic society. It shows that in any society of even moderate complexity,
making decisions by majority rule gives power not to the people, but to
professionals who know how to manipulate political procedures to their
advantage. –P.D. Straffin, “Handbook of Game Theory with Economic
Implications” (1994)
The
venerable Iron Law of Oligarchy is more blunt.
So
it’s not the voters in a democratic society who
control things. Instead, it’s the “professionals who know how to
manipulate political procedures.”
Those
professional manipulators include especially those psychopathic personalities
attracted to government and those economic interests that want to use it for their own ends.
As
you may have noticed, eventually the successful manipulators evolve almost
exclusively into those special interests which
can afford to make huge campaign bribes to get the minions elected and to hire
one or more professional lobbyists to influence them even further.
In
fact, as six-term U.S. Senator John McCain explains, it’s often those professional
lobbyists who write the laws passed by the minions and,
according to 26-term (52 year) U.S. Congressman John Conyers, the minions don’t
even read them anyway – – –
“We don’t read most of the bills…that we pass.”
Do you suppose they’re
passing too many? Rep. Conyers seems to think so. You will too if you keep
reading.
But
the pay-out for those who can afford to buy what has now obviously become bogus democracy is huge.
As Johnny Chung explained it,
“I see the White House is like a subway — you have
to put in coins to open the gates.” –businessman Johnny Chung
testifying to Congress in the 1997 Clinton fundraising scandal
The
result is, as the quip goes, “We now have the best government
money can buy.”
When getting into the U.S.
Presidential race for the first time, Barack Obama perfectly explains how bogus
democracy works- – –
As
Mr. Obama explains, the lobbyists and special interests “write the checks and you get stuck with the bill.… They think they own this government.”
And
once bogus democracy has over-written the Republic, they
do.
It’s
clear then; it’s not “our government” — unless we can afford to make huge
campaign bribes and hire at least one lobbyist.
So
now the minions rarely even mention The Constitution and
when they do, regularly demonstrate they have no idea that it was designed
mainly to limit them, not empower them to muck around in everyone’s business.
Corruption
has set in as it always does when dues are no longer voluntary. Rather than the
minions protecting us individuals and other minorities, we hear that standard
bogus-democracy excuse for repression, “It’s what the people want.”
And
it is of course. They just don’t tell you which people
want it. Unsurprisingly, it’s almost always the people “who can afford to make huge campaign bribes …and to hire one or
more professional lobbyists.” And the psychopaths.
And
even in the rare instances the minions are paying attention and it really is
what the majority wants, a minority still loses and
there are often severe consequences as history will remind you shortly.
Now
asserting The Constitution in
court can get you a contempt of court charge and so the aberration is
almost complete.
Unfortunately,
all representative organizations are, over time, subject to this degradation.
It just happens faster once “the majority rules”
is used as the ruse.
It’s
this “It’s what the people want” excuse that puts eternal vigilance to sleep, the dangerous servant’s nose and first hump in the
tent, and the violence and other malign behavior of modern governments at the
disposal of psychopaths and special interests. And against freedom, liberty —
and we individuals.
Voting in a bogus democracy just creates
the illusion that you have something to say about what’s being done to you by
the “professionals who know how to manipulate political procedures to
their advantage.” And, in a bogus
democracy, your vote “just encourages the bastards.”
So
there is indeed power in voting, just not for the
bamboozled voter pulling the levers at the local precinct on election day.
As
this process morphs the well-crafted Republic into “our”
bogus representative democracy, two main processes begin to propel it toward
discord, discontent, disharmony, upheaval, chaos, political disaster — and
totalitarianism.
First,
although we’re now 75% majority rules bogus
democracy, it’s not the “unbridled majorities”
that are causing the problems. Instead, it’s the run-away minions which is much
worse because they vote all the time.
And
since this is a territorial democracy, every
minion vote is winner-takes-all which means
everyone in the geographical area is supposed to be bound by the result and is
expected to pay the bills for it.
And with every vote, there’s
that minority that loses. The more votes, the more losers.
If
the minions took a vote on ice cream, heaven forbid, and Vanilla won, “our democracy” would
insist that all of us be limited to Vanilla, ultimately
backed-up by prison cells and the police gun.
And
undoubtedly, a so-called “black market”
for Razzleberry and Bacon would
evolve.
I know, ridiculous, isn’t it?
But consider the folks who
preferred alcoholic beverages during the failed 14-year attempt at alcohol
prohibition in the 1920’s territorial U.S. — and the folks who want to smoke
pot, even today in 2020 A.D.
Diversity
can be, well, troubling. Why not force your personal biases on everyone?
Especially when the minions claim it’s “what the people want.”
Let’s
do away with drunks says the WCTU . And pot smokers act funny.
And
so, with the bogus “It’s what the people want” excuse,
the votes, laws, rules, regulations, orders and controls — and taxes to pay for
them — pile up over time. So do the unhappy vote-losers and tax payers.
But
as attempted alcohol and drug prohibition both conclusively prove — and The Constitution took into account by protecting
minorities — that doesn’t work because we humans don’t homogenize well. Thank goodness!
The
on-going attempt to homogenize us makes more and more of us repressed,
depressed, unhappy. And turns us into enemies and sometimes violent. It’s
the Molyneaux “gun-in-the-room” Effect in full
bloom.
And
so we end up with that majority dissatisfied with democracy.
Consider
all the upheaval, chaos, mayhem murder and world-record incarceration caused by
U.S. governments vainly trying to prevent folks from drinking booze and
smoking pot.
Not all democratic votes have
such dramatic effects, but you can be pretty sure there’s another group of disaffected
losers with every ballot.
Let’s put some numbers into
the equation.
In
the U.S.A. — in “our democracy” —
approximately 40,000 new laws — to say nothing of
rules, regulations, orders and controls — go into effect every year.
The
Code of Federal Regulations alone includes
over one-million (1,000,000) restrictions.
Equally as disruptive, this
proliferation of laws — and the rules, regulations orders and controls that go
with them — dilute and discredit the few laws that make sense.
As
the quip goes, “Ten commandments were good enough for God,
what the Hell are WE doing?”
In
the vain attempt to enforce all these bogus democratic rules-mentality repressive obsessions, you
obviously need more and more enforcement personnel.
And
as the work-load mushrooms into impossibility and the helpful folks select
themselves out, the character of those remaining personnel morphs from
previously helpful “Peace Officers” into intimidating
and sometimes murderous and accurately named LEOs (Law Enforcement Officers) instead. They begin to assault and kill
citizens rather than keeping the peace.
Folks
begin to talk about living in a police state and while there’s still
lip-service to freedom, folks forget what it feels like to be free, and the young
never know.
Eventually, LEOs become assassination targets.
Because
of the case-load caused by all the laws, trial by jury — designed to protect minorities — becomes
unworkable and so the establishment replaces it with plea blackmail — they call it plea bargain — and only about 2% of cases that
aren’t dismissed ever see a jury.
And
even then, the “justice” establishment uses voir dire to stack
all it’s juries and so nearly snuffs-out jury nullification, one of the most
powerful minority protections built-in to The Constitution.
Using plea blackmail, overzealous interrogations often
convince people who didn’t commit the crime to confess anyway. So, while
innocent folks go to prison and may even be executed — and the real perp runs free — it makes the law-and-order
industry stats look good.
There
are so many laws, it’s plausibly estimated that the average American, mostly
unknowingly, commits three felonies a day.
With that
statistic in mind, it should be no surprise that the U.S.A. holds by far
the world record for per-capita incarceration.
In
the “freest country in the world,” about 1 in 31 Americans is in prison, on probation or on parole,
two out-of-three for victimless “crimes.” We’re so far ahead
in the race to incarcerate, no other country is even visible in the rear-view
mirror.
The
other side of that coin is that, since we’re all guilty of some fake “felony”
or other — and the NSA likely has the evidence recorded from your
device — we can be threatened, blackmailed, and/or persecuted by the
establishment at will.
While
this phase of “our democracy” is just beginning to
bite, you regularly see the ground truth in cop shows when a LEO threatens
someone with arrest on some technicality if they don’t kow-tow.
Look what they’re doing (2019
A.D.), even to rich-man Trump, his family, and particularly his associates.
So
the first key to our disaffection with democracy is
all the laws, rules, regulations, orders and controls etc. that accumulate in a
bogus winner-takes-all territorial democracy and the chaos they cause. The
deteriorating deportment of the minions and those they hire to enforce all
those legislative emissions tip folks off they’re in a rapidly deteriorating
police state and well on the way to discord, discontent, disharmony, upheaval,
chaos, and political disaster.
And this isn’t unique to the
U.S.A., just more pronounced — because we’ve been around longer.
But
there’s that second key leading to
political disaster. It involves your “dues,” present and future, and the
economic parasites that feed on ’em – – –
While
by no means the only economic interest that manipulates government for fun and profit, Central Bankers are the most egregious — and they’re also central to why democracy is
destroying the world.
The Central Bank scheme is
simple: Just get governments to create you as a monopoly and then borrow money
from you, exclusively at first.
Such
loans are highly desirable because governments borrow huge amounts and they’re
super-safe because, like the Mafia and other protection rackets, governments
extort their “dues” money from “their” citizens as “taxes” with
threats, intimidation, and if necessary, actual use of the taxman’s gun.
The
biggest and most successful running example is the IRS/Federal-Reserve swindle in the U.S.. It was pioneered
by early U.S. banksters and perfected in Nicaragua and other central American
countries around the turn of the 20th Century, then gradually up-scaled and
“improved” here in the U.S. beginning in 1913. You can find a very rough
history of that quite interesting evolution here: SILENT PARTNERS .
The
result is a memetic machine that operates as a reverse Robin
Hood with the Central Banks as the nexus. It takes from everyone,
especially poorer folks, and gives to the professionals who know how
to manipulate political procedures to their advantage.
“Economic Hitman” John Perkins explains the updated scam
and how it deals with foreign minions who are reluctant to indebt their
citizens to the international moneyed interests and their political procedure
manipulators here.
In
the context of destruction of The Republic,
note that until passage of the Income Tax in
tandem with the Federal Reserve Act in 1913,
Washington D.C. lived perfectly well on import tariffs and excise taxes alone.
So at
first, the minions didn’t try to directly rip us flesh-and-blood residents off
with the so-called personal income tax. That was outlawed in the body
of The Constitution. It still is. Like this – – –
“No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid,
unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration hereinbefore directed to be
taken.” –UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, Article I, Section 9.
The
income tax, when applied to flesh-and-blood residents, is a direct tax because as a flesh-and-blood person, you can’t pass it on to anyone. So, the key is,
is it “laid …in Proportion to the Census?” If not, it’s
outlawed by The Constitution as above, and
cannot and does not apply to flesh-and-blood Americans.
The
16th Amendment? Its “income tax” is an excise
tax and applies mainly to corporations, ultimately the price their owners pay
for the government’s legal system limiting their liability. When you sign your
1040 form, you volunteer to be taxed as if you are a privileged corporation.
^^w
Before
the IRS/Federal-Reserve swindle , the minions were limited
because they didn’t have a Central Bank eager to lend them money — or a big
chunk of their citizens’ future income-tax “dues” and future
labor as collateral for those loans.
Keep in mind the banksters
don’t want to be paid back, they just want to keep collecting that super-safe
interest.
The
simple way to expose this swindle is to ask, “Why do governments keep
borrowing instead of paying cash?”
By
styling these loans as the “National Debt,” the
banksters made sure there was no escaping the payments — not even by death or
personal bankruptcy — because the “National Debt” is
automatically passed on to the kids, grand kids, and the yet unborn through
taxes.
As
the quip goes, “We used to pay-off the mortgage and leave our
kids the farm, now we mortgage the farm and leave our kids the payments.”
That’s a major clue to why
the banksters are the second key to democracy destroying the world – – – and
the final disaster lurches into view.
See,
if the minions want to get re-elected, there’s a limit to the amount of “dues”
they can extort from their bamboozled citizens and voters, even when
about a third of the extortions are hidden. So they
borrow instead. Because the kids, grand kids, and yet unborn — who will get the
bill — can’t vote.
But we’re the grand kids and those bills are now
coming due.
In
the U.S. as of mid 2020 A.D., the National Debt is
about $26 trillion and growing rapidly. If you trust government figures, you
can find the “Debt to The Penny” HERE
But that’s not the only debt
the minions have passed on to the kids, grand kids and yet unborn.
Remember
those programs the minions passed to get re-elected, even sometimes ones the “unbridled majorities” may have wanted? Ones that may
have been written by lobbyists and not read by the minions?
While there are a bunch of
these, we only need to look at two to see the magnitude of the problem here in
the U.S.A.
According
to Forbes in 2017, the combined bill for Medicare and, via the Social
“Security” Ponzi scheme, promised by the U.S.
Government to old folks — who were taxed in advance by F.I.C.A. to pay for it —
includes over
$200-trillion in “unfunded liabilities.” That
means the minions have no serious idea where that money will come from.
Somehow, they’ll have to try
to extort it from the kids, grand kids, and the yet unborn. Or default on the
promise.
Think
of the federal government as a gigantic [social] insurance company with a
sideline business in national defense and homeland security. This particular
insurance company, it turns out, has made personal promises to its
policyholders that have a current value …in excess of the revenues it expects
to receive. An insurance company with cash accounting is not really an
insurance company at all,” he added, “it’s an accident waiting to
happen.” -Peter Fisher, U.S. under secretary of the
Treasury for domestic finance, Russell On Gold, Dow Theory Letters, 22 November, 2002
If
you have your heart medicine and tranquilizers handy — and your firearms safely
out of reach — you can find a dynamic and good-enough-for-government-work
balance sheet of the situation HERE.
The bottom line is, that to
get re-elected, the politicians pass the compounding costs of government on to
the kids, grand kids and yet unborn.
Intergenerational Warfare anyone?
The
situation is similar in nearly all democracies. The difference is, when the
minions in other democracies can’t tax
and borrow anymore, they go to external sources, usually the World Bank’s
political lending arm, the IMF. Both are controlled by the U.S.
But like all bankers, the IMF
wants to be sure it will get those regular interest payments and they clearly
see the problems that caused the politicians to ask them for loans in the first
place.
So as
part of the conditions for its loans, the IMF requires a decrease in government
spending — called “austerity.”
Austerity,
rather than cutting out favors to those special interests,
instead requires cutting back the “free” government services citizens are being
taxed to pay for and have become addicted to. But now folks can’t afford these
on their own because of their tax burden — and the costs have mushroomed
because there are no market forces controlling government programs.
Usually
the IMF requires the wimpy minions to also increase taxes on their already
squeezed “citizens” — or as some call them more accurately, “tax slaves” — as well. And the bulk of the loan must
first go to pay-off previous loans from the IMF and the other wise-guy
financial “vultures” circling the carcass.
Only a few realize they’ve
been voted into tax-slavery by the minions, and, what with all the rules,
regulations, orders and controls — and their devices monitored 24/7 and CCTV
cameras everywhere — into what is beginning to resemble an open-air gulag. None
the less, one way or another, nearly everyone feels it in their personal lives.
So,
although few see the big picture, you now have a super-saturated solution of
disillusioned and often desperate citizens — well over half discontented with democracy, remember — and, as Peter Fisher put
it, an accident just waiting to happen.
A
tiny additional crystal or even a speck of dust falling into such a
super-saturated solution will cause it to crystalize into demonstrations, often
violent street-riots, revolts, revolutions, etc. just as documented at the top
of this article. Often it’s what insiders like former World-Bank
Chief-Economist Joseph Stiglitz expect and accurately call “The IMF Riot.”
While
that additional crystal or speck can be almost anything — an additional tax on petrol in France, slightly increased subway
fares in Chile, perceived government corruption in Lebanon —
according to one remarkably accurate model, there’s one thing that
most dependably predicts these outcomes: An increase in the price of basic
necessities, particularly food.
So it
isn’t “income inequality” as hopeful socialists like to
imagine — few begrudge Bill Gates his billions, even though they did come
from Microsoft Windows — it’s the specter of
starvation.
And
so we come to discord, discontent, disharmony, upheaval, chaos, and political
disaster, often leading to totalitarianism. And, with the minions stacking laws
and debt on future generations to get re-elected, not only Why Democracy Is Destroying the World but how.
And,
no surprise, the idiots who want to transform a well-crafted
Republic into a doomed democracy are those psychopathic personalities attracted to government and those economic interests that want to use it for their own ends.
Until it self-destructs.
The
thing is, the idiots weren’t idiots all at once, they were sort of incremental idiots like this remember – – –
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms
[of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow
operations, perverted it into tyranny.” –Thomas
Jefferson, 1778
The
control, power and money the psychopaths and economic interests get by manipulating a
representative democracy is their purloined prize and why they do it, at least
until their mechanism self-destructs.
Few
of them are aware of the looming disaster until it’s too late because it
evolves as a usually unnoticed long-cycle memetic machine like this – – –
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men
in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system
that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” –Frederic Bastiat
Why
would “we” go along with it? Well, if “we” understood
what was happening, “we” wouldn’t. Unfortunately our more recent ancestors made
the mistake of dropping that eternal vigilence and
trusting the minions. And of taking them seriously, although we know that they have to be good liars to get elected.
And they
tend to be psychopaths. Unfortunately, most of us still don’t know
that.
And,
in addition to mistaking state-based territorial representative democracy
for natural democracy — along with the incessant drone
of “our democracy” soundbytes of course — the main thing
that usually bamboozles folks is the completely unwarranted and usually
unstated assumption that it’s your values
which the democracy will attempt to
foist on everyone else in your territorial area.
And
so while voting should be like this – – –
If the
law were confined to its proper functions, everyone’s interest in the law would
be the same. Is it not clear that, under these
circumstances, those who voted could not inconvenience those who did not vote? –Frederick
Bastiat, The Law
Instead,
in a bogus democracy, you vote once every four years and then the lobbyists,
psychopaths, and special interests take over.
In
a bogus democracy then, as T.J. Lowi explains so well, voting has become
a trick to con large numbers of people into enslaving themselves to a memetic machine designed to rob them,
originally created by a gaggle of mostly long-dead banking “elites” and others “who knew how to manipulate
political procedures to their advantage.”
As a
result, any resemblance between That Thing That Lives in Washington D.C. and
what’s specified in The U.S. Constitution is
now purely coincidental.
As
explained by 43rd U.S. President G.W. Bush, “… Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned
piece of paper!“
Once
the Constitutional limits and constraints on the minions are overcome by claims
that “the majority rules” and “it’s what the people want,”
what’s left to prevent the dangerous servant from
becoming the fearful master? What’s left to stop
the minions and idiots from converting the stable Republic into just another doomed democracy? What’s left to prevent coercive
winner-takes-all bogus-democracy-enabled totalitarianism?
TO
SUM UP:
Despite
all the hype and circumstance to the contrary, the majority of folks in the world are unhappy with their
democracies, even if they don’t understand exactly why.
Of
the three forms of democracy, Natural democracy is
the only one that doesn’t coerce “dues” and participation. It’s the kind we
instincively seek and ass-u-me.
The
other two — direct democracy and representative democracy — require coercion to
exact “dues” and force compliance.
Even
relatively small democracies always become bogus because, as enshrined in The Iron Law of Oligarchy and elsewhere, “making decisions by majority rule gives power not to the people,
but to professionals who know how to manipulate political procedures to their
advantage.”
Our
early American ancestors warned against the dangers of these inherently
coercive democracies, pointing out that they lead to “elective despotism” (Thomas Jefferson) “tyrannical unbridled majorities” (John Adams) and “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever
been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and
have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their
deaths.” (James Madison)
They also understood the
dangers of government in general. George Washington put it like this:
“Government
is not eloquence, it is not reason; it is force, and like fire, makes a
dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
The
U.S. Constitution, as originally written and
intended, was a damn good barrier, minimizing the dangers of
government, and protecting us individuals and our differences against not only
democracy, but also against tin-pot dictators and so-called “royalty.”
However,
as Jefferson forewarned – – – “Experience hath shewn, that
even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in
time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
– – –
and Bastiat explained — “When plunder becomes a way of
life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for
themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies
it.” –Frederic Bastiat
This
happened here in the U.S. because, despite those warnings, the minions, elected
and hired to administer the U.S. Constitution, largely financed by “special intetests,” none-the-less followed that
unfortunate path. Using winner-takes-all democracy as a ruse, they gradually
bamboozled us unwary victims into foresaking the stable Republic and riding “our“ tax-funded democracy down the path to
tyranny and perdition.
This gradual pernicious degradation happens
largely because, in the stampede to get re-elected, the minions pass laws that
accumulate over time, making things more and more repressive to more and more
individuals. And then, to pay for especially the pork-barrel “laws” and
programs, the elected prevaricators run-up bills that accumulate as the
so-called “national debt” — and other financial obligations — that
eventually swamp the kids, grand kids and yet unborn in impossible tax debt.
While many things may precipitate the
inevitable upheavals and sometimes revolution, the
modern rule-of-thumb that predicts it is when the cost of necessities,
particularly food, raises the specter of starvation and destitution.
None
the less, bamboozled folks from Amy Goodman (Democracy Now) to mis-named “Republicans” praise “our democracy” and try to foist similar on folks
all around the world.
Now, much to your surprise I’d bet, you know why democracy is
destroying the world. And how.
So, is the U.S. being converted from a
stable Republic into a doomed democracy by mistake or is it being done by
design? Or is it something else even more troubling?
The most important if uncomfortable
question is, as usual, “What are you going to do about
it?”
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L. Reichard White [send him mail] taught physics, designed
and built a house, ran for Nevada State Senate, served two terms on the
Libertarian National Committee, managed a theater company, etc. For the next
few decades, he supported his writing habit by beating casinos at their own
games. His hobby, though, is explaining things he wishes someone had explained to him. You can find a few of his other explanations
listed here.