Lets talk voting, as a rule I hate politics, At best its nothing but corruption and self serving elitists pandering to a populous they know nothing about, hoping they can convince enough of them to keep them in power so they can continue to enrich themselves. However these days not only is it everywhere, both sides supporters are so devoted to it that if you don’t pay attention it might just wind up killing you. It’s like any other threat that you encounter, you cannot just put your head in the sand and hope it goes away you have to pay attention to it.
Typically I avoid talking politics in much depth most of the time mainly because the they have extended the political season to damn near 24/7 365, but also I feel in most cases it’s a waste of time. Both sides are part of the problem and yet only blame the other side. Mindlessly following their political parties talking points and parroting catch phrases leaving them oblivious to the fact that both sides are part of the same organization playing everyone toward the middle.
Few people on either side are open to hearing anything that does not 100% fit their parties platform with the majority wanting their life style forced upon the other side with little to no actual desire for freedom for anyone. However the situation will never change if left unexamined so here we are.
This is not an all encompassing discussion but I wanted to cover a few topics briefly that gets you thinking about the whole situation.
People think it matters who occupies that house, (The White House) It doesn’t, multi national corporations and criminals run the world.
~Raymond Reddington
The system is broken…..or is it.
Even of those that believe in the state, many still say it’s broken and needs to be fixed, but they fail to realize that it is working exactly how it has been built to work. Maybe not how it was intended to be built by the founding fathers but how it has been built none the less.
At best and what it is from the point of view of the citizen is 3 people locked in a room fighting over a gun so the winner can control the other 2. Different groups within the public want control of the government in order to force their way of life on the other groups. At worst and how it is from the point of view of the state, is one organization putting on a facade of division in order to keep the public divided and fighting amongst each other in order to allow them to enrich themselves and their friends and maintain and expand their control of the populace to the highest degree possible.
This is made obvious by a simple little fact that most people don’t realize unless its pointed out to them directly. You don’t get to vote for who you want to, you get to vote for who they let you vote for. The parties put on their primary “elections” in order to pick who will run in the actual elections, but as was learned from the DNC scandal during the Clinton Sanders primary election they are less than straight elections. The parties then use their powers to keep anyone else from running in the main election that is remotely on their side, using any number of means from payoffs to intimidation. This limits your vote to who they put forward, provided you stick to voting one of the two parties.
Its true you could do a write in candidate and vote for anyone you wanted but they are not going to get elected. Though it is an option for those who can’t bring themselves to not vote at all. Or you can vote third party. This is a statement towards refusing to vote for the uni-party of Democrat/Republican but you are still consenting to be ruled, simply by participating. Remember just because you vote for your new master doesn’t make you free. Your vote is saying I believe in the state but that someone else should be running it, but I will accept being ruled by who ever wins because that’s the rules.
Identity politics
A part of this system is identity politics which makes you choose an identity and have to vote exactly how that identity votes or you can’t be part of the identity anymore. Many peoples identity is wrapped up in a political party, and how they vote. To them any deviation from that straight Democrat or Republican ticket is no better than treason. This doesn’t leave much room for independent thought.
For others their identity it wrapped up in a religion, or their race and then those religions or races are supposed to vote for a certain party regardless of their personal beliefs toward the issues or how that party view those beliefs or issues. Pair this with most peoples cognitive bias/desire to not be on the loosing team and many people will pick one of these two options and disregard their own code or beliefs because they don’t want to be on the loosing team.
So where does that leave the free thinkers? Well they have some third parties and independent candidates, but they have less than no chance of winning typically and are constantly berated by the other two parties followers for being traitors, or giving their vote to the other side because they are not voting for their side.
No political system works on a large scale
Human beings have lived in small groups/tribes/warbands etc throughout our entire existence up until only comparatively recently groups with a population of around 150 people. This is called Dunbars number. Dunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.
Anything larger than this number and you loose connection and the larger the population the less an less connection until there is no connection at all and you have strangers. With no connection there is no trust, and no relationship which is the basis for all community and there by the systems they use to govern.
In a group where you know everyone, you can have a single leader, (king, chief) and there is a likelihood that all will be fine. You can also have democracy and there is little chance that the group will vote to enslave half the population because you know everyone. You can have communism where the tribe owns the property and everyone can share it without issues.
This is all possible because at that level of population, your more likely to all be mostly if not totally aligned on the major issues of your population, and there will typically be swift repercussions if someone try’s to over step their power and authority. Which in most cases they will not do in the first case cause most people won’t cross a group that they feel they belong to, with the obvious exceptions of certain personalities such as narcissists.
Now all those rules go out the window as the population size grows. Once those connections and relationships go out the window so does trust and the unified(ish) thinking of the tribe and then you get split populations and ideologies which is where the political turmoil starts. In these situations where the pitfalls of any political theory comes out.
When you have a large population and half or more have differing beliefs, they will invariably come to a clash at some point. As well those certain personalities we talked about will look for ways to get themselves the most power and benefit for themselves. In this situation with communism you get the soviet union, if you have democracy you get mob rule, with kings or single leaders, you get dictatorships and despots, at least according to half the population or less that don’t agree with his policies.
Now the US for example is too wildly different in almost every aspect from one geographic location to the other to be governed by one central government. Weather, people culture resources etc. the needs, wants, beliefs and ideologies are just to wildly different from area to area for one group or set of rules to understand or be able to account for all of them. Your can’t make everyone happy and the founding fathers knew this which is why the first governing system for the United States was the articles of confederation and not the constitution. It was later changed to the constitution which is what has let the problems grow to what they have today.
Democracy is mob rule
The voting system makes no sense if your in a minority position because none of you positions get put forward. It’s a matter of choosing between the worst kinds of choices that they put in front of you. There is nothing consensual about that as it’s a system of forced consent. By participating you concede to be ruled by whomever comes out on top in the election no matter if you vote for them or not because you are participating in the process, which means you agree with the process.
The smallest minority in any group will always be the individual, we are all unique and despite how much the empire and its systems try to force us into whatever little box or group they want us in, we will remain that way. This means the individual and their rights will always suffer at the hands of the mob, and this is the problem with the popular vote method. This is because any decision that needs to be voted on is decided by majority vote not a unanimous vote. They tell you that it could come down to a single vote, but where did anyone agree to be ruled by a group that wins by one vote. That means that potentially half the country does not agree with the other but has to bow down because for no other reason than they are the minority. This type of justification would not be allowed to be used any where else. How would that play in a rape trial? 2 guys want to have sex with a woman and she doesn’t. But now she has to let it happen because they are the majority vote?
The only way that would be somewhat ethical would be to require an unanimous vote. This means that the whole population agreed. Many would say that this would make it so that nothing would get done. Thats true and in a sense that is part of the point. Unless 100 percent of the population agreed on the vote it wouldn’t pass. Weed? Wouldn’t have to legalize it because it would not have been made illegal in the first place. Abortion? Guns? Freedom of speech? Individual rights would not be in near as much danger, as everyone would have to agree to take them away. Now what about murder? Rape? Kidnapping? Do you think that you could not get a unanimous vote that those should be illegal?
Now with all that being said, those in the US and many other countries are not even true democracies. They are one kind or another of republic. The people vote on representatives that are sent to parliament or congress or whatever the term is in the country in question. They are sent there to represent the people of their jurisdiction and their interests, or so you are lead to believe. Really they take money from corporations, special interest groups, and their wealthy friends, to push their interests when they win so that they can pay to bombard you with propaganda to convince you to vote for them. Then they completely ignore your needs because they are no longer beholden to you, but the corporations and groups they took money from. At least until the next election season.
This is easier than you might think, people have short attention spans and even shorter memories. They fall for the lies and promises made during election season and then forget completely that they promised the same thing last election and did the opposite during their term.
Most people don’t want true freedom, at least not for everyone.
People want to live their lives, but they don’t want other people to live lives that they don’t agree with. Both sides are guilty of this. They cannot comprehend or refuse to comprehend the concept of live and let live. If they don’t like weed, they think no one should use it. If they don’t believe in abortion no one should be able to get them. If they don’t like guns no one should own them, except the state so that they can enforce any of these rules they want to force on other people. They cannot understand or live in a world where people live or want to live different lives than they do and believe that other ways of life should be outlawed and their way of life forced on the other side.
You can pretty much boil down all lobbying of laws to one group wanting to force their way life on someone else. With the exception of corporate lobbying that typically is wanting laws passed forcing people in one way or the other to buy their products. Politicians then use these desires to control and force one groups ways onto the other to drum up votes.
Representation or lack there of.
I want to give credit to legal man from the quash podcast. It was an episode of his show that brought this information to my attention and its eye opening. In 1780 the first year of the United States the total population was around 2.7 million people. As of 2022 that number is estimated at around 333.28 million. The first congress had 65 members and grew to 435 by 1912 where it remained by law from 1941 on with only a short exception prior, when Alaska and Hawaii were ratified as states. The population of the United States in 1910 was roughly 93 million people. So the in the original congress each member represented roughly 41,538 people, In 1941 each member represented 213,793 people and today, each representative represents 766,160 people and each senator 3332800 people. So how much representation does each person actually have in congress? Especially if they are in a minority group for that representatives region? To receive the same level of representation that was given in the early congress, there would need to be over 8000 representatives in the house. Can the representative really listen to his constituents to a degree that will matter?
What does your vote actually do?
The next level of the problem is that the people who you are voting for are not the ones actually in charge anymore. People who are in the government for their entire lives are not voted in they are appointed. And often stay no matter who is in the White House or congress. Did you get a say in the matter of whether or not they stayed or were hired in the first place? Many of these positions for what ever reason never have to be held accountable to congress or anyone else. The President is only there for a max of 8 years. Congressmen can be there longer but could still be gone next election. The people who really hold the power are occasionally appointed and stay for the majority of their life.
A recent example of this is Dr. Fauci. Who was in office for multiple presidents and most of his adult life. Directors of federal agencies and all their underlings, and federal judges and the Supreme court judges are just a few other examples.
Let’s look at some numbers.
According to 2020 stats the Federal, State, and Local governments had a total number of 23.43 million people. 2.87 mil. at the federal level with 1.33 mil. In the military and 19.23 million in the countries different state and local governments. How many did the people vote for?
The President – But not the Vice president as they are a chosen by the President. A 100 senators and 435 house members federally. 50 governors, in some states LT governors are voted on and others they are chosen by the governor so we will just call it 50. (its not gonna skew the numbers) In State Senates in total there is 1943 members with 5415 state house representatives and with roughly 19,495 incorporated cities in the United States you have the mayors.
Now in the majority of the Government and the country Law enforcement leaders are appointed and their staff is then hired with on 46 states electing sherifs by vote for the county level law enforcement and only 39 states elect judges. Only in those states do you have a direct say in law enforcement leadership and there by maybe a say in their policies other wise they are appointed and they are going to do whatever their boss tells them to do.
In total there is 27,438 total elected officials or .00117106% of the government. So the people have only a say in .0012% of the government (rounded) up to ten thousandths of a percent.
Then at the federal level the President appoints or could if he changed up the whole bench 4000 positions with only 1200-1400 of them needing senate approval as a check in balance, and that is just the federal level. Those 4000 positions are then responsible for the policies, hiring of staff and regulation of the agencies and organization they are in charge of that ends up playing a part in your life in one way or another through the regulation and rules that they can and often pass without even your so called representatives input.
So what can you do?
The easy answer for many is don’t vote, and I get it, dissolve the conditioned belief that other men and women who call themselves “government” have the right to rule you, adopt voluntarist principles, and stop engaging with the political system altogether. Build and live your life so that whomever is in office doesn’t matter. Withdraw your vote from the system as a vote of no confidence.
How is “get out and vote harder” the solution for those who think the 2020 election was stolen (never mind the integrity of every election before that)? Do they believe their vote matters? How about those who voted for Hillary in the previous election who think Russia stole the election for Trump?
Even if one side completely controls every single elected position in all levels of government, and replaces every single one of the appointed positions, which will never happen at either circumstance. Do you think they would be able to remove all the entrenched corruption that is there now from all the levels below them? How much cleaning up will the system allow And why would a politician do that for you when he could keep the status quo and reap the benefits.
This could and probably will result in naked power grabs by so called elected officials. These actions will only decrease confidence even further. That’s only the short term. I’m talking about the long game. If American men stop thinking of the government as “us” and start thinking of it as “them” if we stop thinking of ourselves as Americans and start acting for our own our tribes or families interests things could really get interesting.
~Jack Donovan
Your vote isn’t going to fix the system. No one that gets in is going to be able to fix it all even if they could. There is too many organizations that will stone wall until they are back out of office. For those that don’t vote the best thing you can do for your country, for your tribe, and for the future, is to let the system tear itself apart. And be ready to play a role in the rebuilding afterward.
Your cast vote is a consent to being ruled, a statement that you think the system is fixable. When you argue in favor of a candidate you’re telling people that you think that candidates view should be forced on everyone and that they should be the one ruling everyone. That the change of who is in control of the system will fix it and not that the system itself is broken or built that way in the first place.
Local-ist Voting
If you can’t bring yourself to not vote at all, I get it the conditioning is deep. I haven’t been able to bring myself not to vote completely either. So what are your options when nothing you do is going to change the federal level in a substantial way? Vote third party or write in candidates at the federal level to make sure your vote doesn’t go to someone you don’t want it to. And make sure you focus on your local elections and voting.
Just like charity the closer to home your actions the more impact you will be able to see and contribute to. The local elections will have more impact on your local life than a lot of federal elections and you do still have the ability to fight off certain policies locally that can at least in the short term improve your way life in one way or another.
There is the possibility that in the future, certain federal policies can effectively be nullified as well if you have a local government that is on the same page, look at the sanctuary city principle for immigration or gun laws, as well as the states legalizing and decriminalizing different “drugs”. Nullification has already effectively happened on some of these fronts so it is technically possible in others. In addition if the federal level does tear it self apart, having an already established system that you at best don’t have to fight everything on, could hopefully ease the transition pains and stave off any control grabs from other groups.
Conclusion
If you made it this far, congratulations, there is hope for us all yet. Half the battle of making change, is understanding all the dynamics that play a part in the situation at hand. Once understood, you can then play a more active role in helping bring about change for the betterment of everyone. My hope is that I’ve given you enough food for thought to cause you to do your own homework, your own research and work towards making valuable changes and to see the value in small communities (tribes if you will) and the impact they can play in your life.
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