They’re all, Democrats and Republicans alike, playing Washington Bingo, which is the Glass Bead Game for retards — nobody really knows what it is or why anyone bothers, but it keeps them occupied in nice cushy offices, with weekends in the Hamptons.
Democracy always devolves into ochlocracy, as some Dead White Male said, but since the last Dead White Male died centuries before Twitter, he didn’t realize that ochlocracy was just a pit stop on the way to kakistocracy.
“Democracy” only works — if, in fact, it does work, which is a very fucking open question — in a stakeholder society. When Madison and the boys pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to each other, they meant all of that literally — Washington could well have died a pauper, Alexander Hamilton ordered his cannon to fire on his own house, and so on. They had skin in the game, which is why they were so public-spirited — if they screwed up, they personally would have to live with the consequences. These days, of course, getting “elected” — or even selected to run for “election” — is a free pass to Easy Street. The rules apply only to the plebs, and only so long — and, insh’allah, the day is soon coming — as we have to pretend to let them “vote” on stuff.
Severian, “The Stakeholder State”, Rotten Chestnuts, 2020-01-22.
February 3, 2023
QotD: Democracy
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GOP policy since Eisenhower has been to go along with Democrat social programs. This total abdication of responsibility has caused five grassroots revolts: Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, the Tea Party, and Trump.
Democrats have never been tolerant. From Jefferson’s hatred of England (a stable, constitutional monarchy) and love of France (a frequently out of control, mass murdering “republic”), through Southern slavery/Jim Crow and Northern big city machine politics (organizing the Irish and Italians against the WASPs), the Democrats have always been the party of ethnic and religious division. In ’64 and ’65, with the passage of the Civil Rights Acts, the Democrats neatly flipped from hating Negroes for no reason to hating whites for no reason. For 223 years, Democrats have supported the worst in humanity.
Comment by somercet — February 4, 2023 @ 16:37