The absurdity of Democracy

"It’s not often that we’re treated to this spectacular an example of how absurd it is to put any faith in elections, democracy, and “majority rule.”

"First, it must be pointed out that even if there were a perfect way for democracy to be administered, it would still be utterly immoral and completely illegitimate. As Benjamin Franklin put it, democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. To put it even more bluntly, there’s another good example of true democracy in action: gang rape.

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"To put it another way, who chose the choices? Even Obama, who seems to now have a lot of people genuinely excited (because they are too busy feeling good to actually think about what it is they are supporting), was very recently an unknown to most of the country. Was it the American people who put him on the ballot? Of course not. They didn’t even know he existed. And was it the people who demanded that McCain run for the presidency? Hardly. So how did those two end up being the choices put before the American people?

"The game is rigged. No, I don’t mean by voting machines that allow tampering, or by people voting more than once, though both of those happen. No, the rigging that matters most happens long before anyone casts a vote. The two parties–or rather, the two clubs inside the one ruling class–choose who will run for office. The people then get to choose between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee–a “choice” which is designed to give the people no power at all."

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