I am ceaselessly amazed at what we Americans are allowed to vote on, just as I am amazed at the consistency of the outcome of these elections. Almost to a T, the electorate votes in higher taxes, more regulations, more boondoggles, and more governmental waste that will attract the vultures who will ensure that the programs, taxes, and regulations will become a permanent fixation in our lives. The “direct vote” state questions have to be trashed. The expansion of democracy has made us divide up into warring factions, making us hate one another, and we seek revenge when we vote. It’s been a disaster for us as a people, and yes, American citizens are a people, even though the radioactive haze of democracy has made us forget that.
Unpopular opinion: the role of government should, more often than not, protect us from ourselves, rather than give us exactly what we want at the voting booth. Who shows up at the voting booth? People hypnotized and swayed by massive ad campaigns and silky smooth lies.
We can’t be trusted with this much democracy. The middle-aged adolescents who vote can’t be trusted with it. Took much is on the table now when we vote. A perfect example is the school bond. These bonds have gotten so out of control that they’re not even about the students, or the schools anymore. A $40 million school bond, when paid off, is replaced with a $200 million bond, which will later be replaced with a $500 million bond. Why? Because in between bonds, the corporate vultures cook up a massive new bond, and find a way to sell it to the local yokels who faithfully vote for it. These bonds always pass. It amounts to a permanent tax increase on everyone, even those who don’t want it. It would be different if only those who voted ‘yes’ were the ones paying, but it’s not. We’re forced to participate, and the outcome amounts to a punishment for those who vote ‘no’.
We already have plenty of limits on democracy. To have a vote on whether to reinstitute slavery would be out of the question, or to vote on whether to erase the First Amendment, or to slaughter the firstborn, or to force flattop haircuts on the male population, or sterilize all blacks or Asians or Hispanics. To allow a vote on these issues would rightly be considered an abomination. But we must consider many other social issues as beyond debate, and beyond vote. Taxes, for one.
Senators should once again be chosen by state legislatures, with term limits, and strict, lifelong limits on their employment after they leave office. Congressmen should have income restrictions imposed as well, for the rest of their lives. This would ensure that those running for office would be doing so for the right reasons.
A life-long pension given to each representative after leaving office would be preferable to the current situation.
We need far, far less democracy if we are to preserve even a shadow of America’s former glory. Democracy creates mobs, ruins communities, creates conflict, corruption, and host of other ills.
