What about "Democracy"?
Some people get what they want
Hell is a place in which everybody gets what they want irrespective of the needs of others. Does the Earth qualify?
Aristotle considered democracy the most despicable form of government, because it is rule by the mob. You may have noticed that the majority is just about always wrong, yet in a “democracy,” they can force their will on the majority. I remember being totally frustrated about the dilemma until I read the Constitution, which allows for equal representation of all states in the Senate and (theoretically) inalienable natural rights that cannot be voted away. Well, most of those “rights” are now gone1, not because anyone voted for that sort of thing, but because elite-financed elections and voting machines made sure that the sponsored political puppets would vote for everything the Cabal tells them to vote for, including a state of medical emergency in a year (2020), when fewer-than-usual people died, and it is still in effect. Of course, the (Un)Patriot(ic) Act takes the cake in recent history, although the largest heist in the world dates back to December 24, 1913, when the “elected” legislators granted exclusive privilege to a private bank, the Federal Reserve, to issue the USD as a form of debt owed by the people (accordingly, federal income tax was introduced as well) to be spent by paid-off government officials and to be paid back by the citizens at an interest.
It has also become a commonplace to say that
if voting mattered, people would not be allowed to vote (allegedly Mark Twain);
it doesn’t matter how you vote, what matters is who counts the votes (Stalin);
once poor people can vote for subsidies from the taxpayer, it’s game over, because people will not have the incentive to work2.
All this seems to put a conclusive end to the illusion of “representative government”3 and goes well beyond asking people what they want. They are usually herded like cattle and seem to be quite content with their situation.
Only a few people know that in the revered Athenian “democracy,” about 70 percent of the people were slaves and in Sparta, they were even forced to fight4. Aristotle held that only those who are willing and able to put up a fight for their freedom deserve it. Strangely, that coincides with a Thomas Jefferson’s maxim that “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”5 I' am afraid that this time, if such a thing would ever occur, both sides will fully bleed out6.
What makes matters worse is that all civilizations had the same structure
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/apocalypse-now
The timetable has also been always the same: from tribal to a concentration of power that eventually led to total annihilation or, in a better scenario, absorption into another culture that still had not advanced to the final stage in self-destruction:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/extinction-level-event
So, what would be a good next step to prevent the self-annihilation of the human race. As for forms of governments, I had a discussion with Gary D. Barnett:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/statism-anarchism-or-something-else
Aristotle thought that the best form of government is ruled by a “good king,” but he also considered the option that such a ruler might not be all that good. Either way, a single ruler is the most transparent form of government.
The scam of “democracy”
Democracy is certainly the most corrupt form of government and the least transparent one, but the most infuriating part is that people believe that their votes count, so they vote. As a result, they can be told they have a representative government, because it is they, who voted for it. In return, their money is copiously spent without any control or restraint.
People must realize that once they enter the voting booth, they sign away their inalienable natural rights. State and government workers are better paid than the demure and fully-ignored masses, so they tend they vote in order to keep their privileges. Many inconsequential people think that their votes would make a difference, so they vote. Others hope that this time a miracle would happen, which neatly exemplifies (purportedly) Einstein’s definition of insanity (“doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”). Some voters trust the acumen of “experts” and truly believe that government honestly does its best for them, which represents a level of naiveté that far surpasses the one needed for Einstein’s definition. Although I never vote, prior to the 2020 presidential elections I counted that at least six votes would be submitted under my name, but what the heck, what can you do in a country where even the dead can vote and if that doesn’t work, Dominion machines and vote counters do the rest?
Voting only legitimizes government thuggery and corruption.
What form of government does the US have?
The MSM is telling you it’s a democracy, which is true only to the point of Aristotle’s opinion that democracy is the most despicable form of government. The US certainly has a stunningly reprehensible one.
Constitutionalists claim the US is a constitutional republic, which it true on paper, but it doesn’t match reality, especially manifestly since the (Un)Patriot(ic) Act has been in effect. Apart from the fact that the Articles of Confederation represented the best interest of the people, the current Constitution always allows the usurpers to change it or, simply bend, ignore, or openly break the rules they create as legislators for the peasants. Who said a piece of paper matters, anyway?
For comic relief, watch the following from the comedy, The Dictator (2012):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXxjSrfjGH4
Those, who pay a little more attention claim that the US is an oligarchy, which is, again, true, when one considers all the insider traders, cartels, monopolies, and revolving doors between corporate America and their supervising agencies, but it doesn’t explain the concerted, well-timed, and coordinated attack on the people all over the land during the plandemic.
Recently, the idea caught on that even the oligarchs are only tools and servants to a globalist oligarchy that controls the money flow and, therefore, controls just about everything worldwide. It seems quite safe to claim that the US has a globalist government that is unelected, but forced on the people, and does not represent the denizens of this pre-apocalyptic landscape.
After all, who cares what you want?
In the words of one of my favorite authors (of course, I don’t always agree with him, but it’s not his fault, because I never fully agree with anyone), Dmitry Orlov, after 2001, “the US Constitution became just about as relevant as an old copy of Pravda in an abandoned Siberian outhouse.” Orlov’s essays are available at https://cluborlov.wordpress.com/ and at https://boosty.to/cluborlov - don’t hold your breath, Orlov is not perfect (lately, he has been obsessing with the “war” in Ukraine, but he is Russian, after all), but he is erudite, entertaining, and full of seminal ideas that are quite often unique and sometimes even indubitably true.
For example, the Mayflower (1620) passengers also tried to build a communistic Utopia by sharing equally, and those who could have worked, stopped working, which resulted in famine and deaths.
Moreover, “revolutions” are done by people below 30 and nearly half of those in the US now are using pot, LSD, and ‘shrooms, with computer games to kill what’s left of their souls. Already in 2004, only one in three young men were fit for military service and that didn’t even take psychological preparedness into account (that’s why robotic armies have been developed ever since, probably used as players in a fakes alien invasion that the masses have been primed for, anyway.
Aristocrats, Ray. Aristotle favored Aristocrats. Aristocracy, in theory, is the next-best constitution after monarchy (because the ruling minority will be the best-qualified to rule), but in practice Aristotle preferred a kind of constitutional democracy, for what he called “polity” is a state in which rich and poor respect each other’s rights and the best-qualified citizens rule with the consent of all.
We tend to think of our Founders in light of legendary history of this nation as quasi-Aristocrats. And many were. As was the creation of Federal power to favor the merchant class and landholders. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States argues that the structure of the Constitution of the United States was motivated primarily by the personal financial interests of the Founding Fathers. Beard contends that the authors of The Federalist Papers represented an interest group themselves. More specifically, Beard contends that the Constitutional Convention was attended by, and the Constitution was therefore written by, a "cohesive" elite seeking to protect its personal property (especially federal bonds) and economic standing. Beard examined the occupations and property holdings of the members of the convention from tax and census records, contemporaneous news accounts, and biographical sources, demonstrating the degree to which each stood to benefit from various Constitutional provisions. Beard pointed out, for example, that George Washington was the wealthiest landowner in the country, and had provided significant funding towards the American Revolution. Beard traces the Constitutional guarantee that the newly formed nation would pay its debts to the desire of Washington and similarly situated lenders to have their costs refunded.
I wish more people understood the difference between a Democracy and a Constitutional Republic. But I have to agree with your comments on where we are currently at. Welfare was abused to the Nth degree. Probably designed that way as everything "they" create has an ulterior goal, and its not for the good of the people. Stealing from the working to give to the non-working who'll never contribute to society. Why should they? I also wish people understood that the government doesn't produce a damn thing, other than problems. What sickens me most is when any politician claims they will tax the rich. Never seen that happen in my lifetime. Its long past the time of quenching the Tree of Liberty. Allowing anyone who wants to inhabit our country for freebies is a major, major mistake. More burden on us tax payers. If only these illegals knew they're next on the kill list.