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Democracy, a wonderful thing. We are told this without end from the moment we’re really able to ask the questions. We are introduced to ‘our team’ by our parents. We’re told all the ways ‘our team’ is better than ‘the other team’ and therefore why we should support them. Our team. It’s like football. You support your home team because of whatever reason you choose and you back them to the hilt because that’s the only way you know how.
If your team does something you don’t agree with then, more often than not, you blame that thing on a portion of the team, the scape goats of the team, and life goes on. Your team is still your team, you just wish they’d get rid of all those goats. Then it’d be perfect.
Doesn’t matter which team you support either, this will probably be the way you vote. There are a very small number of swing voters. Voters who don’t treat politics like a giant and very long game of football. But are swing voters really any better than supporters? Swing voters tend between the two main parties, the home or away side. They don’t think, “Hang on a second, not four years ago I was actually for the other side and switched because of a, b and c. Maybe I should look for something else?” No, they go on flicking from Red to Blue Corporate Party, thinking that they’re making a difference.
I’m here to tell you that both left and right wing are attached to the same tired old bird.
Democracy doesn’t work. It relies on uninformed, illeducated, selfish, bitter people to be right most of the time. Taxes are essential for the multitude of things we expect from the government, yet if you put it to the vote, most people would vote down taxes. It would be ‘right’ within the democratic system. The government would then scramble to provide the things that people were still shouting for without the money to provide those things. If, after a few years of this, you were to ask people if they want more or less taxation, they’d again vote for less. They’d ignore the fact that they’d been moaning just a week before about the absense of services from the government and vote with their selfishness.
Civilisation is the bird. It has restricted the choices we have to its left or right wings. Civilisation believes itself capable of flying, but it’s falling.
I’m waiting for the people to start saying that the current financial disaster was unforeseeable. Like they did with the New Orleans levy. Like they did with the Iraqi civil war. It will be on every news network and the good little journos wont point to all of the voices who were crying out against the way we were doing business, just as they didn’t point out the numerous studies into the levy system, just like they didn’t point out the opinions that were bang on the money about the way the Iraq situation would develop.
Vote no one. No one is worth your vote.
