so to continue the above thought, I offer you these thoughts…
we have, currently a republic, in which we vote for representatives,
members of congress, to represent us in which they vote, in our name,
upon actions that we have “engaged” them with…so, in our name, they
vote upon such matters as taxes, declaring war, the matters of making laws
in our name… so on… we ourselves do not make the laws but others
make the laws in our name…
but the question arises, why don’t we make our own laws?
It is said that we are too busy or perhaps we don’t have the time or
effort to make the laws ourselves…it is easy enough to think of reasons,
why we don’t make our own laws and why we dispatch others to make laws in our name…
but to be honest, there is but another reason why the constitution has
representatives acting in our name and not us acting as our own legislators,
the founding fathers distrusted the “common” people…we have a republic
because the founding fathers didn’t trust the average person… we have an
republic because the founding fathers were wealthy white men who only trusted
wealthy white men…and our republic today is run by wealthy white men…
witness the fact that the laws are made today that ensure the continuation
of the rule of wealthy white men…it is far easier to rule, via money and threats,
a small number of people then it is to rule everyone… in other words, it is
easier to hold and maintain power for wealthy white men within a republic then
it is by a true democracy…
and this is rather self evident given how our current republic has been bought
and sold like the whores they are… with the buying and selling of congressmen
by wealthy white men…one of the cures of this prostitution of congress
by wealthy white men is the implementation of harsh forms of government
like a monarchy or a total dictatorship… as the right wing is advocating for right now…
the reason that the wealthy business class is advocating for a dictatorship,
as business have done so for over a century, (historically, the money for
every single dictatorship in the modern era, has been from banks and wealthy
white guys, so the money sent to Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini,
Pol Pot and Putin and of course, IQ45, has come from the wealthy white guys/banks
who only live for making money and don’t care in any, way, shape or form, what
type of government we have because they want money, not freedom and certainly
not justice, if you want to eliminate dictators, you remove their getting money from
the upper class and banks that the upper class own)
it is far easier to control one person then it is to control some, many or all people…
thus the upper class tries to prop up dictatorships and wanna be dictators like IQ45…
so what possible political solutions exists that will allow us to actual have
a democracy?
step one: prevent the wealthy upper class from giving money to wannabe dictators…
easier said then done… but preventing the upper class from funding the wannabe
dictators is certainly part of the solution…
Step two: change the national political structure from being a republic,
and turn it into a full fledge democracy…
“we the people in order to form a more perfect union”
must remove the representatives that claim to speak for us into a
pure form democracy where we, the people, make the laws and we execute
the laws…instead of voting for others who speak in my name, I now speak
in my own name and vote for my own convictions…
one of the arguments for a representative democracy is its alleged efficiency…
but frankly I hold, and have always held that increased efficiency isn’t really
the benefit that it is claimed to be…
in an honest look at life, what in nature is really that efficient? certainly not
the human body nor is any aspect of nature is that efficient…and key,
important aspects of human existence has nothing to do with efficiency…
love for example…the parts of life that give life its meaning has nothing to
do with efficiency… looking at a sunset or looking at a beautiful picture or
walking in a forest… these things, that in part, makes life worth living,
aren’t efficient at all… and so why should we give priority to something
that isn’t a priority in nature?
one of the arguments I can make for turning America into a direct democracy is
this, we have by our use of a indirect democracy, a republic, we have
removed the “people” from complete control over their lives… we have allowed
people to escape from having responsibility for their lives by having
indirect democracy, a republic…
if you want to make people responsible for their lives, then you have to
make them responsible… by turning over all aspects of government into
the hands of the people… a direct democracy in order to “force”
to take responsibility for their own lives… an indirect democracy, a republic,
can and has allowed people to walk away from taking responsibility for their
own lives…I can escape responsibility for my life by saying, I didn’t vote for
a congress that take actions that directly impact my life… I am absolved
from responsibility for actions taken by congress or the president…
and the fact is, I must be held accountable for actions taken by congress
and the president for actions taken in MY NAME…
and the only way we can take responsibility for our own actions is to
be responsible for our actions by turning America into a direct democracy,
not a republic…part of the failure of America today is the failure for
one, anyone, to take responsibility for actions taken… the congress can blame
the white house and the white house can blame the courts and the courts can
blame congress and no one, but no one takes any responsibility for actions taken…
if we become a direct democracy, we have but one person and one person only
that we can blame for actions taken or not taken… and that is ourselves…
to have a republic allow us to shift responsibility for actions taken to congress or
the president or the courts…but we must face up to taking responsibility ourselves by
becoming a direct democracy… where we make the laws and we enforce the laws
and we engaged in every aspect of our lives including the social, economic, political
and philosophical aspects of our lives…
do we have the courage to take responsibility for our lives by
taking upon ourselves the role of legislator of our lives?
we can easily pass the buck within any other system outside of a direct
democracy because we have no control over any other system outside of
a direct democracy…and what is true of us politically, is also true
economically, socially, philosophically… the question of existence becomes this…
how do I become responsible for my own life?
how do I become responsible for my own life politically, socially,
economically and philosophically?
Kropotkin