Voting is a ritual used to maintain the myth that the great unwashed are actually involved in the governing process. Despite the fact that it appears that business people, lawyers and entertainment idols are the preferred choices among the great unwashed, MBAs “market analysts” and bean counters embedded as the bureaucracies of modern government do the actual “governing”.
It’s absolutely essential in a system that’s designed by the wealthy for the wealthy that their interests are the primary concern of government. It’s entirely logical that the wealthy ensure that their respective representatives control access to the legislative process and ipso facto, any potential alteration to that legislation.
It is the wealthy who build factories and suburbia, and it is the wealthy who may or may not grant the privilege of making a living to each one of us, the great unwashed and it is the wealthy who conduct shape and control national and international commerce.
Your life and your livelihood are given you by the wealthy.
You enjoy the “rights” of a majority that is completely and totally at the mercy of the wealthy. It is the wealthy who shape budgets and craft laws that facilitates their continued control over the lives of we the great unwashed.
There are speech writers and poll takers, lobbyist groups and think tanks, there are social movements and there are special interest groups and an enormously complex and virtually ubiquitous propaganda machine as close to each one of us as our computers our televisions and our cell phones.
The greatest electoral craft is in moulding sentiment among the great unwashed that convinces them that they’re in charge of their lives and they get that reassurance every time they purchase “this” instead of “that”
“See I’m in control of my life”, seldom realizing this choice is in itself a myth.
It is the primal myth of that propaganda machinery.
This is the “freedom” that’s worth spilling the blood of innocents and sending young people off to die.
The great hoax of western democracies is the passion that’s been engendered around the whole voting ritual. Banana republics and even the great western democracies have always had significant difficulties manipulating the election process to achieve the desired outcome. Voting booths and levers, “chads” and scribbled “X’s” on bits of paper can be used to alter that outcome and we’ve become justifiably skeptical over the years of any of these processes because we’ve very often found out later that …whoops! There seems to have been some irregularity in the count, or gosh ole dead Uncle Remus voted twice this year and he’s been dead for three…..
There’s every reason to believe that any referenda held will be just as vulnerable to corruption as every other voting ritual.
What’s worth considering from the get-go however, is who do you think manages this system and why would there be any cause for doubt in anyone’s mind regarding the integrity of these good folk?
