“I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way:
I don’t vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote,
you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They
say, “If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain”, but where’s the logic
in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and
they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they
have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to
complain.” George Carlin
Our First Amendment prohibits Congress and “our government”,
from violating the right that Chinese go to jail for; freedom of speech,
freedom of assembly, and the right to petition government about grievances.
Our American ancestors wrote the first amendment because
they knew that “our government” would attract politicians and bureaucrats who
had the same attitude that guides Communist officials in China otherwise,
there would have been no reason for the First Amendment.
It’s easy to look down your nose at China, but the situation there isn’t much different
in America.
We have an enormous welfare-warfare racket that enables the federal bureaucracy
to get its hands on trillions from the private sector. The Chinese Communist
Party, American officials and everyone else on the federal dole fight to ensure
that nothing interrupts the flow into their money bin.
Republicans and Democrats like to pretend that they’re
different from the Communist Party because, they say, people have a choice when
they go to the polls. The choice is false. In most political races, there are
no important differences between the candidates. They both believe in the
corporate, welfare-state, warfare-state way of life and oppose any dismantling
or repeal of welfare-warfare functions of the federal government. Their
arguments are always over how the welfare-warfare state should be rearranged,
not whether it should be dismantled.
For all practical purposes, “our government” is run by one
party, which is divided into two wings. They take turns in various offices but
for all practical purposes, they’ve cartel control over the system. Meanwhile,
the vast army of federal bureaucrats and people who receive federal dole
remains permanent.
Have you ever wondered why third Party candidates gather
signatures to run for public office? It’s to impose enormous requirements to
make it difficult and expensive for them to compete against the monopoly while,
at the same time, maintain the pretense of a competitive system.
The risk “our government” faces that Chinese officials don’t
is that there’s still some free speech about liberty in America, which
has the potential for inspiring Americans to demand a dismantling, not a
reform, of the corporate, welfare-warfare racket. The First Amendment prohibits
government from punishing freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and
petitioning for redress of grievances.
To reduce that risk, “our government” convinces people that
their corporate welfare-warfare racket represents “freedom” and is in their
best interests. This process starts in the first grade, indoctrinating
children with the notion that America’s
society based on a welfare state and warfare state represents freedom. By the
time they graduate high school, the programming has been successfully completed
for most people. The victims honestly believe they’re free and even express
thanks to the warfare-state government for protecting their “freedom.”
They scare “consumers” into believing that the corporate welfare-warfare
state is necessary for their survival and well-being. Without the welfare
state, you’re told, there would be people dying in the streets. Without the
drug war, everyone would quit working and just smoke weed, snort cocaine, and shoot
heroin all day. Without the warfare state, America would quickly be taken over
by the communists, terrorists, drug dealers, and illegal aliens. All this time
Americans are told corporate freedom to do anything they wish is required for
“jobs”.
When government critics speak many “consumers” act as though
someone has criticized their parents. Government defenders run to the State’s
defense and frequently slander the critics. Mainstream media outlets continue
to lie and distort information, propagandize on behalf of corrupt politicians,
banksters and military leaders. “Journalists”
have a gullible, naive blind faith in their “leaders” despite the ruin such
leaders have caused.
Americans are so controlled by government, at all levels,
they can’t move without bumping into it, sometimes with disastrous
consequences. From taxes, to permits and licenses for everything and to
never-ending laws and ordinances that regulate your money, your land, your
food, your water, your air, your energy, your guns, your children, your children’s
education and your health care. The difference is if you live in China, you know
you’re not free. American’s are told by “officials” that this is the land of
the free, the brave and our constitution guarantees freedom.
Your government is running up a debt so large that it may
never be paid back and will saddle generations to come with crushing taxes.
That government is threatening American sovereignty by asking foreign
countries, that don’t much like us and will hurt us when they can, to lend us
money.
The scandals are immigration, bank and corporate bailouts
and crony capitalism where government rewards its friends with your money and
punishes its enemies with regulations. Government is infected with the
incurable diseases of waste, fraud, abuse and corruption, massive programs that
don't work and two political parties that champion their differences but in the
end, they all bow to the will of the lobbyists.
When power rests in the hands of the governed, there’s freedom.
When power rests in the hands of government, there’s slavery. Whatever power
the governed had under our fading Republic and was intended by the framers, is fast
slipping away into ignorance, apathy, greed and dependency.
Voting legitimizes all the excess and sociopathic tendencies
of “our government” and ignores the practice of authorizing the tax man at all
levels coming into your house and stealing 35 percent of their resources on a
monthly basis and if you resist in any way, you get a boot on the neck and
maybe a surcharge for daring to question or resist the thief and his
army. Government is a highwayman and the voter is the waylaid traveler
who appears to smile happily at having a gun put to his head and his pockets
emptied. He then proudly wears the sticker on his jacket that reads: “I
was robbed and I voted for it!” A mass exodus from the voting cesspool may get
interesting responses from the elected sociopaths. Withdraw your support of a
sick and twisted system and stop rubber-stamping the violence against your
community.
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