Heres How Politicians Stay in Power
Government abuses continue thanks to the illusion of consent
Here's How Politicians Stay in Power
Democracy is an incredibly successful, long con.
It works because of the illusion of consent; people actually believe they are represented, and so, they accept impositions that would otherwise be intolerable, if imposed on them by a king or a führer or generalissimo.
But when the people have decided
except of course, theyve done no such thing. It is all an illusion, a rhetorical sleight-of-hand that deftly hides the reality that it is not the people who decide anything but rather a small handful of individuals who wield vast almost unlimited power by claiming to act on their behalf.
Which is a fine-sounding literary device but as a political actuality it is an atrocity.
Have you ever consented to anything the government does to you? Been offered the free choice to accept or decline? And not subject to violent repercussions in the event you do decide to decline? What sort of contract is it that youre never actually been presented with but which youre presumed to have signed and which you are bound by whether youve signed or not?
It is very odd.
The courts have ruled that by dint of having applied for permission to travel that is, having applied for a drivers license you gave given your implied consent to, well, pretty much anything the state decides to do to you. Even when in f**grant abuse of your alleged rights, as enumerated in the Constitutions Bill of Rights.
Yet few, if any of us, have actually consented to this abrogation of our rights.
We are simply told that we have, since we submitted (under duress) to the necessity of obtaining a drivers license, so as to be able to travel semi-freely, under certain terms and conditions.
Like most political language, consent of the governed means (in reality) the opposite of its superficial (and generally accepted) meaning. Of a piece with legislation touting freedom and patriotism. Most of us understand very well whats coming in that case.
We need to learn the same about consent of the governed.
That our consent is irrelevant.
Well do as were told or else.
Essential to the lie of consent is the fraud of representation. As in no taxation without representation (implying that its legitimate to take your money since youve said its ok to do that
except of course you probably never said any such thing). The concept always left fuzzy, never closely examined is that we each give proxy power to another person (the representative) who then represents our interests.
Its a preposterous and pernicious concept.
No one has your proxy power except when explicitly given.
Have you given it?
The claim is that by v****g, youve done exactly that. Which is nonsense, since you have no choice whatsoever to decline to give your proxy. You are presented with a choice of proxies in the same way that a condemned man in some states is presented with the choice of lethal injection or the electric chair.
Your feeble right to v**e for the candidates of other peoples choosing is the mechanism by which all your sovereign rights as an individual are vitiated.
Representation makes you believe its all ok. Makes you accept the unacceptable.
Your drop of piss v**e in the bucket mingles with oceans of other peoples piss-v**es. A representative is infused with the combined voices of all those people and, via some process beyond the ken of mortal man, t***smutes their will into concrete action. Which action is infused with moral authority because it echoes the vox populi.
You are represented.
Nonsense.
The idea that a congressman t***smutes the will of thousands of discrete individuals is actually worse than nonsense.
It is imbecility.
Well, those who buy into it are imbeciles, at any rate.
Most people are unaware of the fact that the German N**is considered themselves the ultimate democrats (little d). That Hitler was not a self-aggrandizing tyrant but merely a sort of conduit for the will of the German national community, the volksgemeinschaft. This is not opinion. It is what the N**is themselves formally touted. Hitler, roared Rudolf Hess at one of the infamous Nuremburg partei rallies is Germany, just as Germany is Hitler.
One and the same.
Noteworthy also is the verbiage of the Soviet c*******ts, who spoke of the dictatorship of the proletariat. It wasnt Lenin and Stalins dictatorship. Oh no! They were merely doing what the proletariat the people desired. Hence also the German Democratic Republic (the former East Germany) and the Peoples Republic of China.
These are examples of democracy in its extreme, distilled form.
The proof of American democracy continues to wax.
One hundred years ago, we were at what you might call the hard cider, or the beer and wine stage. We are now at the Jack Daniels stage.
How much longer before we are at the methanol stage?
It depends on how much longer the long con that we are represented and have given our consent holds up.
no propaganda please wrote:
Heres How Politicians Stay in Power
Government abuses continue thanks to the illusion of consent
Here's How Politicians Stay in Power
Democracy is an incredibly successful, long con.
It works because of the illusion of consent; people actually believe they are represented, and so, they accept impositions that would otherwise be intolerable, if imposed on them by a king or a führer or generalissimo.
But when the people have decided
except of course, theyve done no such thing. It is all an illusion, a rhetorical sleight-of-hand that deftly hides the reality that it is not the people who decide anything but rather a small handful of individuals who wield vast almost unlimited power by claiming to act on their behalf.
Which is a fine-sounding literary device but as a political actuality it is an atrocity.
Have you ever consented to anything the government does to you? Been offered the free choice to accept or decline? And not subject to violent repercussions in the event you do decide to decline? What sort of contract is it that youre never actually been presented with but which youre presumed to have signed and which you are bound by whether youve signed or not?
It is very odd.
The courts have ruled that by dint of having applied for permission to travel that is, having applied for a drivers license you gave given your implied consent to, well, pretty much anything the state decides to do to you. Even when in f**grant abuse of your alleged rights, as enumerated in the Constitutions Bill of Rights.
Yet few, if any of us, have actually consented to this abrogation of our rights.
We are simply told that we have, since we submitted (under duress) to the necessity of obtaining a drivers license, so as to be able to travel semi-freely, under certain terms and conditions.
Like most political language, consent of the governed means (in reality) the opposite of its superficial (and generally accepted) meaning. Of a piece with legislation touting freedom and patriotism. Most of us understand very well whats coming in that case.
We need to learn the same about consent of the governed.
That our consent is irrelevant.
Well do as were told or else.
Essential to the lie of consent is the fraud of representation. As in no taxation without representation (implying that its legitimate to take your money since youve said its ok to do that
except of course you probably never said any such thing). The concept always left fuzzy, never closely examined is that we each give proxy power to another person (the representative) who then represents our interests.
Its a preposterous and pernicious concept.
No one has your proxy power except when explicitly given.
Have you given it?
The claim is that by v****g, youve done exactly that. Which is nonsense, since you have no choice whatsoever to decline to give your proxy. You are presented with a choice of proxies in the same way that a condemned man in some states is presented with the choice of lethal injection or the electric chair.
Your feeble right to v**e for the candidates of other peoples choosing is the mechanism by which all your sovereign rights as an individual are vitiated.
Representation makes you believe its all ok. Makes you accept the unacceptable.
Your drop of piss v**e in the bucket mingles with oceans of other peoples piss-v**es. A representative is infused with the combined voices of all those people and, via some process beyond the ken of mortal man, t***smutes their will into concrete action. Which action is infused with moral authority because it echoes the vox populi.
You are represented.
Nonsense.
The idea that a congressman t***smutes the will of thousands of discrete individuals is actually worse than nonsense.
It is imbecility.
Well, those who buy into it are imbeciles, at any rate.
Most people are unaware of the fact that the German N**is considered themselves the ultimate democrats (little d). That Hitler was not a self-aggrandizing tyrant but merely a sort of conduit for the will of the German national community, the volksgemeinschaft. This is not opinion. It is what the N**is themselves formally touted. Hitler, roared Rudolf Hess at one of the infamous Nuremburg partei rallies is Germany, just as Germany is Hitler.
One and the same.
Noteworthy also is the verbiage of the Soviet c*******ts, who spoke of the dictatorship of the proletariat. It wasnt Lenin and Stalins dictatorship. Oh no! They were merely doing what the proletariat the people desired. Hence also the German Democratic Republic (the former East Germany) and the Peoples Republic of China.
These are examples of democracy in its extreme, distilled form.
The proof of American democracy continues to wax.
One hundred years ago, we were at what you might call the hard cider, or the beer and wine stage. We are now at the Jack Daniels stage.
How much longer before we are at the methanol stage?
It depends on how much longer the long con that we are represented and have given our consent holds up.
Heres How Politicians Stay in Power br Government... (
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Well said!!! Because in distilling methanol is the TOXIC stuff that comes first before the ethanol and must be discarded.
buffalo wrote:
Well said!!! Because in distilling methanol is the TOXIC stuff that comes first before the ethanol and must be discarded.
...you've never heard of denatured alcohol?
They don't throw anything away, the input costs are to high to make it.
Methanol and methyl alcohol are the same thing. Methanal vaporizes (boils) at 148f and ethanol or ethyl alcohol (the good stuff)vaporizes at 174f.
Denatured alcohol is poisonous.
Dummy Boy wrote:
...you've never heard of denatured alcohol?
They don't throw anything away, the input costs are to high to make it.
Methanol and methyl alcohol are the same thing. Methanol vaporizes (boils) at 148f and ethanol or ethyl alcohol (the good stuff)vaporizes at 174f.
Denatured alcohol is poisonous.
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