Impoverished people around the world have killed, died, and sacrificed everything for democracy. Another clever word for what is essentially mob rule – democracy is a means of keeping the herded masses content. The plebs think they have a say in what ‘their’ government is doing when in reality there is a class – commonly referred to in academia as the elites (the monied few) – that are the real deciders.
But what forms the impecunious masses’ perspective of this ambiguous ideology?
Perhaps, it is that ‘shining city upon a hill’ the illuminated symbol of democracy – the United States of America. But is there a more perfect example of why democracy is a fallacy, a cleverly crafted means of plebian appeasement? Endless corruption, an ultra-violent foreign policy, class division – the key ingredients of the American brand of democracy. Is this really what people want when they seek democracy?
Democracy – in the case of America – is fascism or the perfect merger of corporation and state. The military industrial complex profits from a belligerent foreign policy, pharmaceutical companies profit from lax regulation, and the energy industry profits from a combination of the aforementioned – all at the expense of the common folk.
Fascism is disguised in the shroud of democracy – why die for an ideological false prophet in the fight between two factions of aristocracy? Accept your place in the social order and be thankful for what you have – then unite society as one, roast the bones of the elites in the ashes of the proverbial senate house, and repeat every century or so.
