Things change and yet stay the same...
Day 5,856, 10:18
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by Franklin Stone
Good morning fellow space cadets. Welcome to day three of the Great Gummie experiment. I had to dig out my Celestial Navigation books from when I attended Star Fleet Academy but I have determined that we are slightly more than one-parsec spinning coreword of our last position.
It is once again time to elect our Country's President. I have noticed for some time now that a mere 200 or 300 hundred citizens take the time to vote. Now in real life, I have never voted. Yes, you read that right, I have NEVER voted. I thought about seeking out our eSupreme Ruler and asking for a Presidential Interview but then I remembered that I don't give a fly pig.
I grew up watching George Carlin when he was the Crazy Weatherman on Johnny Carson who would later take comedy to its greatest height. Now there were many good, some even great, comedians I grew up with but George was never afraid to hit some very touchy subjects with common sense. He became my 'Boo' when filming one of his many specials he was arrested for doing the '7 Words You Can't Say On TV' live.
So. Why don't I vote? Well, it all began when at 18 years old my Uncle Sam sent me on an all-expense paid tour of the jungles of beautiful South East Asia. When I was drafted I had barely graduated high school and the voting age was 21. My government, who only wanted to keep me safe from our enemies, shoved some pretty cool weapons into the hands of an impulsive 18-year-old ADD-riddled boy's hands and said, 'Kill anything that moves.' One night several months into my first tour on some LZ somewhere I was reading 'The Stars & Stripes' and discovered my government had lowered the voting age to 18. By then I had read 'The Pentagon Papers' and had become a full-fledged hater of politicians everywhere.
Now that I have grown old and have kicked back with a few huge Blunts, I take great pride in the fact I have never broken the solemn oath I took, the next morning as I climbed aboard an outbound Huey, to never vote. That way I and George have the complete right to bitch about the clowns in control.
I am a member of the 'We Be F**ked Party'. No matter how I and anyone else votes two clowns are running for President who have spent Billions of dollars telling us why they should be given the power to run our lives as they see fit. I say neither of them deserves any power simply because they want it so badly. So come election day simply write in Alfred E Newman and he will take us the rest of the way. Let us all pray to whatever god or goddess you believe in that we don't find ourselves with him in charge.
Ah yes, day three is a spectacular success. I now have a nice base of Magic Active Ingredient in my bloodstream so that the Captain can once again see clearly. Before me, the Rift and it is clear surfing from here. Maybe I should check out the quadrant trailing spinward of my location. Until tomorrow space cadets.
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Hum...so far so good...
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Please...go away.
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I'm completing my stats article and I already know you have no chances this run, but good luck anyway.
Done, you can find some hints inside:
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/eusa-population-november-2023-2774520
Whew. For a moment I thought I might have to do something. Thank St. Harambe what a relief.
"...in real life, I have never voted"
That explains a lot why you don't understand democracy. And whatever we don't understand we don't like.
I understand how Democracy works. They give you two choices to pick from, neither of which is any different than the other one and neither of which deserves the Office of President. I want to know how many people of voting age are neither registered nor are going to vote. Maybe the choice of the People is none of the above.
Some years in real life I don't vote too. And I have a reason to think democracy is evil: In the beginning of my teaching, I thought it woud be good to let the pupils vote about what to do, for example "When do you prefere to make the test? This thursday or the next monday?" and even more stupid ones like: "Do you prefere to go out in the break time, or stay inside?" and so on.
Then I noticed the kids started arguing each other cause this democratic way to do stuff. Someone started to vote just against his "opponent", others started to vote the opposite of the class just to argue.
Veteran teachers said me this was a really bad way to teach, because kids don't really know what they want, they just vote following their emotions and sympathies.
A really good teacher must understand what his pupils want without asking them, and make the right choice. Some may don't like it, and they can blame the teacher, but sure they wont blame their classmates for that. Democracy, instead, is just a way to increase rage and enmities.
Then I reasoned in the same way for the politicians elections. Does people really know what they want? Or they vote just following emotions and sympathies?
I heard a lot of times phrases like: "You voted Berlusconi? Now you deserve him!" and stuff like this every time someone talk about politics.
After all, people is not different from kids: they argue each other, they bitch each other, more than complain against the politician in charge.
I reached the though that democracy is really the biggest triumph of the most evil establishment: they let people vote giving the apparence to be good and do what people want, but in reality, it's just the best way to shirk responsibilities. Because, after all "People voted us, so if something goes wrong it's people fault".
In democracy, the rage of the peole is less focused against the establishment and most focused against other people (just think about the increased crime rate in every democratic country compared to autocratic ones).
In old empires at least the people could raise and cut the heads of their bad kings and emperors, but now, what people can do? Nothing, because it's just people fault.
Democracy is bad. Not vote seems the only good choice we can do.
You have hit the problem on the head. People vote emotions...
Democracy is not the best system but the best system we can archive.
When democracy won’t show people opinion than explain me what happened at UK in 2016.
and they still even after this is so bloody bad for the Brit’s the majority has still the opinion this was the „right“ choice.
People decision. That’s all. Either you like it or not.
The alternative are lazy retards ruining the country by living in luxury or psychopaths who believe they can conquer the world.
And you can’t decide which one you get.
do you know the tale about the salt?
democracy is much more better than monarchy.
Capitalism is much more better than feudalism.
Current level of democracy has problems. ( society wants and capital wants problematics /Annn Richards (T😵),
but much more better than despitism.
Currently the biggest fear is the social contre-revolution and feudal restauration á la Putin and Trump kinds.
*despotism
‘Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’
~Winston Churchill
I think the Enlightened Empire was the best government. Like Louis XIV, Hammurabi, Alexander the Great, Augustus, Saladdin. Sadly it seems in the world can't exist more than one enlightened emperor every 2 or 3 centuries, as an enlightened scientist, or probably an enlightened person in general.
"Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Coming, coming home"