Originally Posted by
IMT
Dear evince:
As I see it, elections are a waste of hard-earned taxpayer money with all the democratic import of a national beauty pageant.
Elections are an instrument of social control. They are based on the premise as simple as it is ingenious as it is effective -- that if you THINK you are 'free,' you will not try to BECOME free. You will instead be a nice, quiet, passive, manageable, doting, respectful little tax-payer, a model citizen who lives a second-hand life tailored to fit the interests of professional politicians and their bourgeoisie masters. I, unfortunately, am none of those fine things.
Nor do I do consent to be retained as a political hostage to the maleficent machinations of what is ostensibly my own system of governance. For what compelling reasons ought I to do otherwise?
If no massive alteration of governance is needed, if nothing is so bad that a good election can't fix it, I see little point to your Republican chicanery rhetoric.
I draw parallels to pre-WWI conditions in Europe. I name specific practices of gigantic, financial fraud. I provide quotes from 75 and 95 years past that find fruition in present trends. I indicate our nation's catastrophic indebtedness.
And in reply?
I see no attempt to confront grapple with this. With slight of hand, all is brushed off -- no analysis of global economic crisis, no reckoning with increasingly tumultous international relations or to war as standing policy, no acknowledgment of the class relations behind these developments.
Instead, you proffer a well-managed election which, like some cosmic, enchanted wand, will clear from view the rubbage of history and all that drives it.
Seriously, evince?
Shouldn't you at least describe the policies which [supposedly] will make all this bad stuff vanish, and why they will do this?
It is one thing to 'plead the [electoral] myth; it is quite another to explain how and why this most assuredly will happen.
Unless or until you do so, you give me no reason NOT to assert that Capitalism DOESN'T answer the charges made because it HAS no answer.
And, your full-throated support of Capitalism insufficiently differentiates your party and the Republican Party [for me at least] to warrant an election. If you won't offer more, I suggest that you make your peace with the Republican Party. Other than the way it administers elections, methinks you're there already.
Against your three decades of 'problematic elections' assertion, I offer a perspective which, if some 160 years past, resonates with many instantly.
I refer to Marx' dictum that every few years, the ruling class let us decide which bourgeoisie faction gets to bully, order and oppress us.
IMT
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