Voting Fraud
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." —Adolf Hitler
The Grand Illusion: One Party Conspiracy
in USA
by JOEL HIRSCHHORN (ONLINE JOURNAL)
With
an endless, futile and costly Iraq war, a stinking economy and most
Americans seeing the country on the wrong track, the greatest national group
delusion is that electing Democrats in 2008 is what the country needs.
Keith Olbermann was praised when he called the Bush presidency a criminal
conspiracy. That missed the larger truth.
The whole two-party political system is a criminal conspiracy hiding behind
illusion induced delusion.
Virtually everything that Bush correctly gets condemnation for could have
been prevented or negated by Democrats, if they had had courage, conviction
and commitment to maintaining the rule of law and obedience to the
Constitution.
Bush grabbed power from the feeble and corrupt hands of Democrats. Democrats
have failed the vast majority of Americans. So why would sensible people
think that giving Democrats more power is a good idea?
They certainly have done little to merit respect for their recent
congressional actions, or inaction when it comes to impeachment of Bush and
Cheney.
One of the core reasons the two-party
stranglehold on our political system persists is that whenever one party
uses its power to an extreme degree it sets the conditions for the other
party -- its partner in the conspiracy -- to take over. T
hen the other takes its turn in wielding excessive power. Most Americans --
at least those that vote -- seem incapable of understanding that the
Democrats and Republicans are two teams in the same league, serving the same
cabal running the corporatist plutocracy.
By keeping people focused on rooting for one team or the other, the
behind-the-scenes rulers ensure their invisibility and power.
The genius of the plutocrats is to create the illusion of important
differences between the two parties, and the illusion of political choice in
elections. In truth, the partner parties compete superficially and
dishonestly to entertain the electorate, to maintain the aura of a
democracy.
Illusion creates the delusion of Americans that voting in elections will
deliver political reforms, despite a long history of politicians lying in
campaigns about reforms, new directions and bold new policies.
The rulers need power shifting between the teams to maintain popular trust
in the political system. Voting manifests that trust -- as if changing
people will fix the system. It doesn’t.
So voters become co-conspirators in the grand political criminal conspiracy.
Those who vote for Democrats or Republicans perpetuate the corrupt,
dishonest and elitist plutocracy that preferentially serves the interests of
the Upper Class and a multitude of special interests -- some aligned with
the Republicans and some with the Democrats.
Voting only encourages worthless politicians and those that fund and corrupt
them.
Public discontent leads to settling for less through lesser evil voting
rather than bold thinking about how to reform the system to get genuine
political competition and better candidates and government.
I understand why sane people would not want to vote for Republicans, based
on the Bush presidency. But I cannot understand why politically engaged
people think that putting Democrats in power will restore American democracy
and put the welfare of non-wealthy Americans above the interests of the
wealthy and the business sector.
Bill Clinton’s administration strongly advanced globalization and the loss
of good jobs to foreign countries.
Economic inequality kept rising. Trade agreements sold us out.
And in this primary season, talk about reforming our health care system
among Democrats never gets serious about providing universal health care
independent of the insurance industry.
And why should citizens be supportive of a party that favors illegal
immigration -- law breaking -- that primarily serves business interests by
keeping labor costs low?
Nor have Democrats stood up to challenge the official 9/11 story that no
longer has any credibility to anyone that takes the time to seriously
examine all its inconsistencies with what really happened and the laws of
physics.
Whoever wins the Democratic presidential nomination will not be free of
corruption and lies. He or she will owe paybacks to all the fat-cat campaign
donors.
Voters will be choosing the lesser-evil Democratic presidential candidate.
Is that really the only choice? Is there no other action that can advance
the national good?
There seem to be just two other choices. Vote for some third party
presidential candidate, but the downside of that is twofold. No such
candidate can win in the current rigged system.
Worse, voting gives a stamp of credibility to the political system, as if it
were fair, when it is not. Voting says that you still believe that the
political system merits your support and involvement.
The second option is to boycott voting to show total rejection of the
current political system and the plutocratic cabal using the two-party
duopoly to carry out its wishes.
When a democracy no longer is legitimate, no longer is honest, and no longer
serves the interests of ordinary citizens, then what other than violent
revolution can change it?
When the electoral system no longer can provide honest, corruption free
candidates with any chance of winning, what can citizens do? Either stay
home or just vote in local and state races and for ballot measures.
I say remove the credibility and legitimacy of the federal government by
reducing voter turnout to extremely low levels.
Show the world that the vast majority of Americans have seen the light and
no longer are deluding themselves about their two-party democracy.
A boycott on voting for candidates for federal office is a form of civil
disobedience that has enormous power to force true political reforms from
the political system.
This is the only way to make it crystal clear that the presidency and
Congress no longer represent any significant fraction of the people. This is
the only way to show that America’s representative democracy is no longer
representative and, therefore, is no longer a credible democracy.
Just imagine a federal government trying to function in the usual ways when
only 20 percent of the eligible voters actually voted.
It takes more courage to boycott voting than to vote for lesser evil
Democrats and, in the end, this is the only way for people to feel proudly
patriotic.
This is the only way to not contribute to the ongoing bipartisan criminal
conspiracy running the federal government.
We have broken government because the spirit of Americans that gave us our
revolution and nation’s birth has been broken, in large measure by
distractive and self-indulgent consumerism. It is better to recognize that
those who vote suffer from delusion than to criticize those who do not vote
as apathetic.
Non-delusional nonvoters recognize the futility of voting.
Democrats will not restore our democracy. That is the painful truth that
most people will not readily accept. Such is the power of group delusion.
Voting produces never-ending cycles of voter dissatisfaction with those
elected, both Democrats and Republicans. It is time to break this cycle of
voter despair. Voters that bitch and moan about Congress and the White House
have nobody to blame but themselves, no matter which party they voted for.
*** Joel S. Hirschhorn observed our corrupt federal government firsthand as
a senior official with the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and
the National Governors Association; reach him through
www.delusionaldemocracy.com.
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