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Most people think that the innovation of America was representative democracy, or having a vote. That's a red herring.
America's unique feature is the explicit limitations put on government, especially as outlined in the Bill of Rights, which we're steadily reverting.
America's unique feature is the explicit limitations put on government, especially as outlined in the Bill of Rights, which we're steadily reverting.
Voting is a distraction. When so many fundamental rights have been breached (e.g. income tax was once unconstitutional), a vote between R or D is an angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin level distinction. It placates us from pushing back on real issues like monetary debasement and war.
Voting is an elaborate ceremony we engage in every so often to suggest to us that the everyday actions and encroachments of politicians are somehow sanctioned by our will. I won't do it.
Nothing's perfect; you can't pitch a fit about every little thing, and sometimes you have to live with an imperfect system.
But I won't pretend that a choice between Trump/Biden or indeed R/D is at all meaningful. Especially when a third voice isn't even allowed on the stage.
But I won't pretend that a choice between Trump/Biden or indeed R/D is at all meaningful. Especially when a third voice isn't even allowed on the stage.
I don't know what the fix is. But I know that 70 years of comfort has made most people forget where prosperity comes from. I fear the only thing that's going to cure the cultural ailment that is upstream of our broken political institutions is a cataclysm.
Not gonna be fun.
Not gonna be fun.
