← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Ed Toner
Thread ID: 14303 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2004-06-23
2004-06-23 19:14 | User Profile
[url]http://tinyurl.com/2h33f[/url]
This Ain't Fifth-Century Athens
Curmudgeonly Reflections On Democracy
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Autumn looms and presidential elections will soon roll around, like droppings pushed by dung beetles. We will be exhorted to vote. Better advice would be not to vote. The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain oneââ¬â¢s self-respect by not participating in it.
Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.
The United States of course is not a democracy but a wonderfully crafted pretense. We have separated the results of elections from the formulation of policy. It is a neat trick: Voting distracts the rabble without disturbing the government. You cannot possiblyââ¬âcan you?ââ¬âbelieve that your vote will change anything of importance? That it will end the flood of semi-literate Mexican proletarians who join our own? Divert the schools from their ghettoish apotheosis of the mentally lame and halt? Cause governmental behavior to rely on merit instead of race, creed, color, sex, and national origin?
No. These things are determined remotely by lobbies, by criminals, and by forces that have no name. If you are lucky, you may be able to change parking regulations.
Given that democracy is pointless, and participation in it a sign of a weak mind, what ..............
2004-06-24 00:15 | User Profile
I have dropped out of the political process. Years ago I joined the Republican Party hoping to make a difference for liberty. Over the years I have become disillusioned and I have come to realize that this country is no longer America.
America is like the Titanic after the ice berg was hit. At this point it is only a matter of time before the nation sinks. Years ago we might have made a difference and avoided the iceberg. But we were fat, dumb and lazy and we never realized that America could fall.
2004-06-24 00:57 | User Profile
I don't know anything about politics, all that I can do is to compare the old days to the now days,,,,,,, If Bush happened to be president in 62 we could all be dead by now.
We need some clear thinking individual to take over the White House and return to us that which was ours.
We need someone who will motivate the inventors in the US to finding a new source of energy and or bring out the knowledge that has been hiding for such a long time.
What makes the USA such a great nation is its people and not the politicians, the politicians are nothing but a by product of its people,,,,,,it is WE THE PEOPLE and not them the politicians.
As you know Bush stole the White House with the aid of his brother in Florida, many votes that should have gone to his adversary were never counted and many more people who should have voted were not allowed to vote.
I used to live in Cuba under the dictator of Fulgencio Batista and he even place my father and mother, in jail for a couple of days, just because my father was going for the Senate, he was going to win.
I can clearly see the day when we will have soldiers in every corner keeping an eye on all of us, of course, thanks to the new spy system which is now being put in place there will be no need of a soldier in every corner, only a camera and the secret police. GOD BLESS AMERICA, I am really sad.
PS: Remember that the Constitution give the people the right to take over the government if the government fails its people.
2004-06-24 03:25 | User Profile
I like Fred's columns, I think he's great. Doesn't he live in Mexico now? Is it such a good idea to sit back and more or less just watch America implode? It's gonna happen, I know. I guess it's a good idea to just concern ourselves with family and friends. The weight of the current situation can severely affect one's state of mind, but I'm not sure I can totally disengage, since all of our lives are on the line. I guess I'm just going to have to carry my Bible with me everywhere from now on. King David, or Solomon, wrote somewhere that "with increased knowledge, comes sorrow". It was true then and it's true now.