Cheating the Public
An educated population can make choices, enable actions intelligently to achieve results and work together to make a worthwhile place to live. Opposed to that we have the need by politicians to control their populations, to rule them in ways that, if educated, the people would reject out of hand.
Politicians are power-seekers. Some few of them feel a calling and think they can go and help improve the lot of their fellow man. It usually takes only one or two terms for them to either realize their mistake or to compromise and become one of the power-mongers.
The last people we should be placing over us are those who want to be there. We should elect those who each of us thinks would best represent us – whoever in each area or classification gets the most votes is sworn in to do their public service. That would be a democracy.
Also we should outlaw party politics. They breach the contract with the public as soon as the members are elected. The people go out to vote for someone who promises to be their representative – as soon as the ballots close, however, the party line suddenly becomes their mandate. No longer do they represent those who voted for them unless the party just happens to see the local issue as do the people who voted.
So how do they do it? How does the system manage to run along when it is clear it is not geared to us, the people? Remember, there is no money anywhere on the planet except what the workers produce. None of those CEO’s produce money, No banker makes anything of value and politicians and lawyers barely get up to the level of parasites.
They do it by keeping us stupid.
August 26th, 2009 at 11:12 am
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