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Interestingly enough the word ‘democracy’ comes from the Greek ‘democratis’ - For those of you that don’t know the Ancient Greeks operated these city state affairs and for the most part the municipal running of the city and law was done by a constantly changing group of citizens. These were not career politicians, these people were appointed by a selection process, lottery.
So the system of so called democracy that so many people believe they actually have is little more than a falsehood, spoon-fed to the masses to create both the illusion of freedom and choice. Yes, that’s right! It’s a rotten lie, well it’s not quite rotten but those of us that are able to actually analyze facts and come to conclusions for ourselves see through it in an instant. (yes most school systems teach you NOT to think, why do you think education is standardized and regulated by the government)
What we in these so called ‘democracies’ are left with is a choice offered to us by political factions who have their own interests at heart or are so far removed from what is actually going on they cease to be effective. Personally when someone offers me a choice between a horse •••• sandwich and a cow •••• sandwich I always respectfully decline to eat, however by not partaking of the feast on offer I relinquish my right to be part of the democratic process.
Alright, we could go on for hours here talking about the idealism in politics but at the bottom line we have a problem in that political factions have taken what was once a fine ideal and subverted it for their own purpose to such a degree that those that it is meant to serve cant even see ‘the wood for the trees’
What can we do? Nothing! For all time you will have to be content with being a slave to your economic masters and be content with the flavor of freedom that you are granted... To offer someone free choice is anarchy, yes but to only offer someone two choices smacks of backdoor dictatorship.
My advice? Learn to think, teach others to think and teach them to teach others to really think.
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Another very important issue is the fact that society hinders there own rights.
Democracy DOES NOT GUARENTEE certain rights, but offers it. It is up to the citizens themselves to accept and or demand the rights being offered.
We have become lazy in our ”jobs” as citizens. We want our democratic governments to be ” for the people”, but yet the majority of society feels their ”job” is complete once they cast their ballot vote....
WRONG! That is where our job BEGINS! Democratic governments have systems of Checks and balances which common citizens feel they have ”no right” to enter..Quite the CONTRARY, WE MUST BE DELIGIENT in foresseing that our governments WORK FOR US!
Too ofton we fall into a silent slumber, prefering to complain to freinds and neighbors rather than taking a stand for ourselves and our nations.
Imagine being the owner of a multibillion dollar company.. Would You go looking for a good management team, hire them, and then never check their work or progress? So why do we do it with our lives, our children’s lives, our nation?
Rights are like anything else in the world, what you don’t use, you lose..
Think, teach your children to think, and take a stand not only to get what is yours, but to maintain it. We owe that to ourselves, our families, our nations and our fellow countrymen.
GREAT POST!!!!
The problems with most societies is if the people are basicly comfortable,they are like sheep and won’t fight back but push to far and as we see throughout history they will bit back
Here in Mexico, we habe slept for over 70 years...Only now have we begun to awake..to a socially inbalanced, corrupted, broken state held hostage by drug dealers..
Some awoke by themselves, others were forced awake as their loved ones were kidnapped under their noses or shot in the streets. Is it too late? I pray not.
USE YOUR RIGHTS. DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS.
We, Mexico are living proof of what awaits the compliant sleepers of the world.