GP Academy Letter 250821: Down With Democracy!

Turning once again to The Risky Reader, I give you…

Down With Democracy!

Dear Friends,

So you think you live in a democracy, do you?

BZZZTTT! Sorry, you don't.

Please accept these lovely mental handcuffs plated in 24 carat Fool's Gold as our consolation prize and thank you for joining us on 'The Price Of Freedom Is Right.'

The fact is that you don't live in a democracy and you never have. You live in a constitutionally limited republic under the rule of law.

Whoa. That sounds way too complicated. Besides, Bill Clinton—a guy who never inhaled, then sold top military secrets to the Chinese (read Betrayal by Bill Gertz)— said America’s job was to make the world free for democracy, no doubt keeping his friends in Beijing firmly in mind.

Every sitting president in this writer’s life has referred to America as a democracy, which is why we stand at sporting events to pledge allegiance “…to the flag, and to the democracy for which it stands.” Not.

Even Barry Soetoro—excuse me, I meant to say Barack Hussein Obama—says we’re a democracy. Surely all of these chief executives of the most powerful nation in world history couldn’t possibly misunderstand the nature and character of the very government they lead… could they?

Democracy sounds good to many people, in particular to the 99% or so who have served their mandatory twelve years in a minimum security federal conditioning camp which some still refer to as public school.

Democracy is something you can wrap your feelings around. It smacks of truth, fairness and the American way. Which, of course, is to bomb the world’s (mostly) brown people into submission, but we mustn't let politics interfere with an expanding Empire. There are natural resources to exploit and Democracy is on the march!

There’s nothing as true as believing you’re free when you’re free to believe nothing that’s true.

Which is why you can count on the public to wade right through the sheep dip and vote for democracy every time, believing that doing so protects them from living in, say, a plutocracy under the Rule of Bush or, later, a proto-communist dictatorship under the Rule of Obama.

But I mean, really, aren’t we splitting hairs here? Democracy, shlemocracy, right? After all, people living under oppressive governments don't have any right to vote, and we Americans do, so that proves we're free.

Uh, actually, what we have is the freedom to push a plastic button bearing the name of our chosen candidate (shades of those burger buttons at McDonalds).

Remember, it’s the machine that does the actual voting, and it may have someone else in mind. Read Votescam by the Colliers brothers at your earliest opportunity.

Well, it’s not like we don’t have free speech. I mean, people living under totalitarian regimes don't have the right to free speech and we Americans do, so we must be free… right?

Uh, no, actually we don’t have completely free speech any more. Ask Joe McCarthy. Today’s political protesters are confined to’ free speech zones’ away from the candidates and the media.

Walk around with a ‘Che Lives’ t-shirt on and you can be accused of a hate crime. Joke about ‘O-Bomb-A’ in an airport and you can be subjected to a federal proctoscopy.

Write a book exposing government fraud and a court can ban its sale, claiming there's no protected right to commercial free speech (you made the mistake of —gasp!—actually charging the public for the book and not giving it away).

Write about really politically incorrect subjects and you can have scary guys with guns from Motherland Security show up at your front door to take you in for questioning.

So you really don’t have true freedom of speech any more, you have limited freedom to politically correct speech. Now that we have that covered, let’s move on.

There still are, if you look closely, some vestiges of the original America around. Take Connecticut for example. Their license plate tells us we’re in the ‘Constitution State’ as if that were something you could be proud of when pulled over for exercising your right to travel without licensure or registration. But that’s horsepower of a different color, so let's move on again.

The fact is that you could line up every adult voter in Connecticut, hold a gun to their heads and offer to let them live if they can simply answer, correctly of course, what form of government they live under.

A democracy, you say? BLAM! One less voter to feed. The public is do dumbed-down these days that if you kept that up you probably couldn’t fill an entire jury box.

Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for breakfast. Democracy means mob rule, the power of the majority to erase the rights of the minority, even if it’s a minority of one (like, for example, you?)

Every democracy in human history has failed. This one will, too. So it’s down with the democracy and up with something else. What will that something else be? No one knows, but one thing is for sure. It's happened before.

It couldn't be simpler. Everything operates on money. Politicians are bought and paid for, lobbyists outnumber legislators several to one, crime, corruption and blackmail are “business as usual” and that’s just in your state legislature. You can only imagine how bad things are in Washington. D.C.

Who’s really running the show? Follow the money. See who has it, who creates it and who controls it and you know who’s pulling the strings.

What could be simpler? You’d have to be blind not to see it. Did you say the strings are invisible? No, actually, they’re not.

You just need to put on these special glasses.