Democracy: How Much and for Whom?, 3
Indeed democracy lends itself to such manipulations due to its limits and shortcomings I mentioned in the synopsis, intrinsic to proxy, to political representation: in democracy, on the basis of a vote at the very best sporadic, generic, emotional, superficial and approximate, we delegate others to take on our behalf a myriad of specific decisions on subjects we do not even know, that eventually fall on anyone, and, moreover, with the majority coercing the minorities.
Of course, the absence of democracy is even worse, but that’s merely our problem, not the moneypulators’ problem indeed… The difference between a formally totalitarian government and a formally democratic one is the same there is between a robber and a defrauder: totalitarian governments rip you off under threat of a weapon in plain sight; democratic ones dupe you into consigning them your purchasing power by ripping you off under threat of a “democratically ratified” weapon. From the viewpoint of those who profit behind them, they are but different tools, exploited according to their availability and fitness in a given social circumstance, to bring about the greater possible theft of purchasing power and freedom. From the viewpoint of suppressives, to bring about the greatest possible dependency, destruction and death. And in all this, institutions, governments and political parties are but tools to control and exploit. How? Bribing is not the only way. There’s a more safe and powerful way: debt.
The more indebted the country and the citizens are, the more enslaved they are in actual fact, regardless of what freedoms are stated in constitutions and laws. And any freedom, apparently conquered on stage but actually granted from behind the scenes, any shift from totalitarianism toward democracy may well be part of the plan, with the purpose of easing and boosting the inclination toward squandering together with the accountability of the citizens for it, so as to sink them more and more into a quicksand that does not exist in the first place: fraudulently induced debt.
