Stop Voting

Voting is a fraud designed to make you think you have some say in the system, when you do not.  This can be very easily seen when you stop and think about one crucial lack in the voting procedures.

And that is this:  A vote for who will represent you first - and falsely - assumes that you have decided to have someone represent you.  What if you had not?

The reason why both sides are so insistent on everyone voting is not for them genuinely caring about your opinion.  And it's certainly not for needing your insights.  It is for wishing - needing - to have as many of the ruled as possible expressing their belief that it is okay to be ruled.

When you vote for which master we'll have - and that is what "your" representative is, a master - you are first and foremost admitting that you find it needful to have a master.

And that's all they wanted from you.  They don't care whether you vote for Team A's Master or Team B's Master, since both are equally well bought and paid for by those who are really running things.  They don't even care if you want to vote for Team C or D's Master, as if those were to ever get really credible, they'd simply be co-opted, too.

It is said - by those who wish you to give your sanction to their system - that "If you don't vote, you can't complain."  Interesting.  And yet if you vote for the guy who wins, you can't complain, as you voted for him!  And if you vote for the guy who loses, you can't complain, as it would make you a poor loser!

The trick here is for them to set it up so that no matter what is done to you by your masters in DC that you feel it is somehow your fault, and thus you have no one to blame but yourself.

In reality, people get to complain any time they are put upon and abused, as they are now and have been for decades.  It was not on any of us to see through this fraud from childhood on and thus never have fallen into the "voting" trap.

If someone votes for "the lesser of two evils" they still get to complain, even if they would have been better off not doing that.  If someone votes for a third party candidate, thus aiding the Team A/Team B winner, they still get to complain, even though they should not have done that.

But the person who sees through the whole ruse, and refuses to agree to have a master in the first place, that person is the most justified in complaining of everyone.  They did not agree to have any representative/master speak or act for them, and yet one now is!

Some object to all of this, and say - like Winston Churchill did - that "Democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others!"

Well...no.  In some sense, it can seem that having "fresh faces" swapped in and out every few years can keep tyranny down in some ways.  But that falsely assumes that those "fresh faces" are actually the ones in power.

As it happens, they never are.  In all cases it is the bully boys, the bureaucracy and the backers remaining the same.  So the voting is only changing the middlemen in the transaction, and the voting then does more harm than good, as it paints a surface validity upon an otherwise corrupt system.

Because if the backers of the old administration are now the backers of the new administration, and the bully boys and bureaucrats are the same as under the last party, then what has changed except who speaks on TV?

Others object by claiming that by voting for different factions or flavors they can get marginally different policy results placed in.  This also is false, as all who voted for Barack Obama so that we could get out of the Middle East and stop torturing prisoners found out.

The backers of each party, the "powers that be" as it were, are going to go on with what they are doing no matter who you vote for.  The changes that you are thinking of, such as in welfare or warfare or pro this or anti this will only ever be upon inconsequential things at best, and on nothing at all more often.

If the ruling elite doesn't care whether you get an abortion or not, you'll probably find it legal to get one.  If they don't care what crap you spout on the internet, your free speech will remain intact.  They can afford to let stuff like that sway back and forth, letting the conservatives feel happy one cycle, the liberals the next, and back and forth, forever.

While they continue to rule and loot - forever.

Please bear in mind that nothing is going to actually change that.  Even a revolution would only replace one set of lying masters with another set.  As the American secession from Britain proved when we gave up George across the ocean for George "crushed the Whiskey Rebellion" Washington right here.

If one then feels the need to be able to truly complain, and to be able to say that they have NO part in a system that is irredeemably corrupt, then - like Henry David Thoreau - one must withdraw to the best of their ability from the farce of it all.

If that can be done by withdrawing tax support, that is best of all, obviously, but since most cannot, the simple act of "not voting" is a FAR more powerful weapon then you know.  Certainly you can tell that it is a weapon "they" fear.

They need you to vote so that the system can look like it is responsive to your needs.  The more that stop, the more concerned they get.  It let's them know that more are not falling for it.  Far from making them go further in their excesses, it typically is the only thing that ever slows them down.

They pause.  They take more polls.  They try to float out various "issues" to see if they can get a rise from us.  What did you imagine that whole tranny bathroom thing that came and went in one month was?

Their girl Hillary has let them know it's her turn to be President.  And they're up for it.  But they knew we would not be.  Thus they forced their Republican Party to accept the stupidest and meanest buffoon around.  One that would even be arrogant and dumb enough to think he has a real chance.

This is only to get us out of our Anarchic Armchairs and to the polls to validate the system.  By being able to tell ourselves that we're all united in doing a good thing in keeping Donald Trump from power.  (Or, and they'll take it either way, to get us to all vote for Trump in a vain and futile effort to "stick it to the Man".)

Truth is, it would make no difference to any of us whether Hillary, Donald, Gary Johnson, or a litter of kittens were in power.  We'd pay taxes and work for the elite all the same.  We'd send our kids to die in for-profit wars all the same.  We'd live, love, learn and laugh all the same.

Join then the truly free in thinking.  Join the group that has more right to complain than any other.  Join the group that while still as much a slave as you in body, at least has their mind free.

Join those who do not give their sanction to the system.  Join those who do not - in voting for Team A, Team B or Team C - grant that another has the right to speak for them or rule them.

Join the non-voters. 

Starting with "Nothing"

The problem with the 1% is that they are so far up, they cannot see down. For instance, there is hardly a one of them but does not think that they have "earned" their money, and so they think that instead of any of us complaining, we should do that too.

The problem with that is that while yes, many of them have worked, and yes, some have even worked "hard", that they are taking for granted some pretty important ingredients to success that have nothing to do with their "work".

They are correct in only one thing. A person who works hard is going to be better off than another person, who in the same situation, does not work hard.

They are wrong in forgetting that there are a great many situations out there, though.

If we were to take identical twins and place one in Somalia and one in the United States, none of us have much trouble realizing that one twin is going to do far better than the other, even with them both working just as hard.

And even within a given nation, if we took identical triplets, and one was raised in a poor trailer court, another in a middle class suburb and another in Donald Trump's childhood neighborhood, then those three - in spite of each working equally hard - are going to have very different results.

The 1% are thus people who born within 10 feet of the mountain top have climbed that 10 feet and are now looking at those of us half way down the mountain - or even in the valley - and yelling, "We climbed up on our own, so that proves that anyone can!"

And yet some of us have climbed a good deal more than ten feet, and are thus a bit peeved to hear that. I mean, gee, we're glad they climbed that ten feet, that's great, some of them don't climb or even drop back down, so that's all cool. But it's just ten feet.

And when many of us have had to climb 1,000 feet just to get to the level of where an evening with a bag of McDonald's and renting a movie are a "treat", we don't need to hear from the 1% about how it was their hard work that made them what they are!
 

Worse than that, though, is those who so far up in the clouds, have forgot there is even such a thing as a valley, and thus equate wherever they started as "the bottom". Such a blind one recently like the son of Donald Trump, Eric, who assured us that his father started out with virtually "nothing".

You know, because Donald "only" had four years of college and a million dollar loan from his father Fred.

In some ways, I can place myself in Eric's $500 shoes and "get it". Eric probably knows plenty who were gave a cushy job where they could draw a large salary for no real work, or just gave control in an up and running company, or were gave some seventy plus million dollar loan to play with! And there's then his poor dad who "only" got that college education and a million bucks!

Yet, in truth, I could only "get" where Eric was coming from if that was the case - and I'd still think he was a bit naive for not realizing that most don't count college (at Wharton!) and a million bucks as "nothing".

But funny thing, Donald Trump actually did have a cushy job at his dad's company while going to college, and it paid him enough to have $200,000 by the time he graduated in 1968. He then was gave control of his dad's up and running company.

And ten years later, when he claims he started to do it on his own? Oh, he got a million dollar loan from his dad all right, but what Eric forgot to mention was that his dad then arranged for him to get an additional SEVENTY million dollar loan from a bank that Fred had a relationship with.

So not only did Trump not start from "nothing" as we among the Top Ramen class would reckon it, he did not even start from "nothing" as the over-privileged would reckon it.

This isn't just a Republican thing, don't get me wrong. There's not a Presidential candidate out there that doesn't love to pretend that he was born in a log cabin that he (or she) built with their own hands!

The Clintons have long loved to pretend about their down home roots, as if all the poor folk in Arkansas are Rhodes Scholars. And Chelsea - well, we all are aware of just how valuable Chelsea is to a network wishing to curry favor with a Secretary of State.

Here's the thing that Donald and Eric and Hillary and Chelsea and all the other children and grandchildren of privilege need to stop doing. Stop claiming in any sense that they started with "nothing".

The kid who joins the military because there are no better options - he starts with nothing. The kid who goes to community college on loans and then can only get a McJob upon graduation - he starts with nothing. The kid who starts at the factory his dad works at, and it closes and moves to Mexico five years later - he starts with nothing.

(And heck, even those people aren't truly starting with "nothing" as some over in Somalia could tell us!)

So whether a guy is a billionaire, a millionaire, or "just" some upper-middle class doctor, dentist or lawyer, the whole "started from nothing" thing probably needs to be put away. Because it doesn't fly. And just annoys those who really are far closer to "nothing" then they were.