Voting got us into this mess. From John and Nisha Whitehead at rutherford.org:
“We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The mess in Washington’—‘More bang for a buck’—punch lines and glamour.”— A Face in the Crowd (1957)
We are one year out from the 2024 presidential election and as usual, the American people remain eager to be persuaded that a new president in the White House can solve the problems that plague us.
Yet what is being staged is not an election.
It’s a con game, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko, a swindle, a flimflam, a gaffle, and a bamboozle, and “we the people” are nothing more than marks, suckers, stooges, mugs, rubes, or gulls.
We’re being duped into believing that this mockery of a choice between two candidates who are equally unfit for office actually translates to having some say in how the government is run.
To the contrary, this particular con game is part of a long-running, elaborate scam to keep the Deep State in power and leave the populace deluded, distracted and incapable of demanding accountability, transparency and decency from the government and its cohorts.
It is a heavily scripted, tightly choreographed, star-studded, ratings-driven, mass-marketed, costly exercise in how to sell a product—in this case, a presidential candidate—to dazzled consumers who will choose image over substance almost every time.
This year’s presidential election, much like every other election in recent years, is what historian Daniel Boorstin referred to as a “pseudo-event”: manufactured, contrived, confected and devoid of any intrinsic value save the value of being advertised. It is the end result of a culture that is moving away from substance toward sensationalism in an era of mass media.
The most worthless populace in human history got us into this mess.
Burning it all down is a feature.
Maybe a Phoenix will arise.
I haven’t voted in decades. I realized a long time ago that politicians (and it doesn’t matter which side) make the promise that people will vote for and then never fulfill even the smallest of their promises. No matter who wins what office the trajectory of the country has always remained the same, toward socialism and total rule no matter what name it may be given. A country that has secret courts, spies on its citizens, removes their property on a whim (asset forfeiture), without just cause or even a hint of judicial proceedings is not a free country.
Voting merely keeps the mob entertained and distracted believing that they have some influence in directing the overlords. They have none.
Chad