The Logic Of Voting

The Logic Of Voting   PDF Version

This is a question I answered on a public forum where I am apparently still welcome and for now uncensored .What good does it do to vote when those we elect are not the ones in charge anyway?

Unwittingly, popular opinion is that if we vote for the right candidates, that will bring about the changes we are looking for. How often has that logic produced positive results? If thinking like that has never worked in the past, What are the chances it will work now? Surely there is a reason this rationality has not worked up until now. Continue reading

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Who Gets To Suffer?

One thing that is helpful in figuring out why things turnout the way they do is ordinary thinking. There seems to be a moratorium
on that activity.

As far as I know, I am the only person in the world who has pondered such things as – who came up with the Corona Virus response? One hint is given just by making an observation as to who and what is profiting greatly as a result.

Another unasked question is: Where does the incentive to censor information that is deemed not good for the masses to hear, see or read come from? Do tech companies have a natural incentive to protect people from being exposed to what they alone deem harmful? In all of history, corporations have never taken this posture before. So, what is unique about today’s world that makes this necessary? Are ordinary citizens too stupid to process meaningful information? Well, we use the jury system. Ordinary citizens
seem to do just fine with deciding complex legal arguments.

All kinds of bad things are happening to ordinariy people in this economy while corporate profits are sound and GDP is acceptable. It is really hard to find out just how many citizens get paid by any and all government entities, including teachers, military, contractors, fire fighters and others.

Today, I made note of where the essence of just my neighbors on my street comes from. This is a very conservative neighborhood.

Here is what I found. EMS Technician and military nurse, plumbing contractor, retired air force, firefighter, USPS, retired general, retired colonel, civil service,
restores old cars. Each of these folks consider themselves to be staunch conservatives. This does not even include what public private partnerships suck out of the overall
economy.

Now notice who is suffering. Absolutely no one that I can see other than the self employed, unemployed or retired and eaten up by inflation.

Unless one believes in magic, collapse of the entire system, government, economy and way of life is the only possible outcome.

 

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How To Get What You Want

<a href=”https://quillian.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Free-Money-Watchdog-Photo1.jpg”><img class=”alignleft wp-image-2292″ src=”https://quillian.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Free-Money-Watchdog-Photo1.jpg” alt=”Free-Money-Watchdog-Photo” width=”320″ height=”213″ /></a>Over the past 50,000 years people have been slaves, subjects of kings, members of tribes and as of late they had opportunities to govern themselves. Yet, when asked, what exactly does government do for people, they never give a supportable answer. Is government supposed to keep people safe? Is government supposed to solve problems for people? Is it supposed to make everyone’s life turn out even? Is government supposed to act like a parent and make everyone behave?

It doesn’t really matter how these questions are answered. Government does not do any of these things and never has. Still these and other notions are assumed to be the job of government.

So when a government is organized what does it do in actual practice? Government provides a way for people to get what they want and force other people pay for it, or bear the burden of making it possible. That is what governments do today, the same as they have always done. In the old days, everyone served a king and the king got everything his subjects did for him at a huge discount. With the advent of democratic principles all who can obtain political power, use democracy to extract income and wealth out of everyone else. In all of history, surely there is an exception but I don’t know of one.

I meet a lot of resistance trying to get folks to favor having government do nothing but administer justice. Apparently the fantasy of getting more out of life than you put into it is so strong that people can’t part with the idea even when it is clear they have always paid all of the costs and have received no benefits.

Fascism is not a system that gets named in a constitution. A parliament or congress does not declare Fascism to be the way of the future. A Fascist does not know he is a Fascist. Fascism is system that evolves after decades or centuries of people using government to get what they want. In the end, the powerful get it all and destroy the system, themselves and everyone else. Self interest generates all income and prosperity but if it is completely unchecked the effect is disastrous.

In a free market system, self interest is tempered by good will. There is a limit to how bad a merchant can treat a customer without losing out. When government decides what people own and what services they pay for goodwill is lost. As a customer, you are no longer a merchant’s friend. You are cannon fodder because profit doesn’t come from you, it comes from what the government forces you to do to support the merchant, who has more political power than you do. A fascist system gets more brutal as time goes on. Exceptions are easily made to civil rights and some minority becomes a scapegoat on which people can focus their anger.

Supporters of the Fascist system are deemed patriots. Others are accused of destroying the viability of the system. Most citizens believe they are living in a free market system, especially those who identify as conservatives.

Do not be fooled into believing experts are on the verge of solving our economic problem. Doing that is only their job. They have not the desire, knowledge or savvy to use in doing so. The experts in which American’s place their faith are using government for the same reason ordinary citizens are. They are using government as a way to get what they want.

The fantasy that the average person is going to achieve some net gain out of turning issues over to government is a 50,000 year old pipe dream, or more appropriately, a long running nightmare.<a href=”https://quillian.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/00_logo_1.jpg”><img class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-2136″ src=”https://quillian.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/00_logo_1.jpg” alt=”00_logo_1″ width=”600″ height=”104″ /></a>

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Scheme of Things Covid and Economics


Who is Suffering and Not Suffering?
The graph below illustrates how suffering is
distributed throughout the population.

 

The balance of political power is concentrated at the top of the income ladder. At the very top, enormous profits are being made at the level of billionaire and Americans who directly serve the upper class. The living standards of those who work for government have not changed. This is
also the case with respect to all whose essence comes from receiving a government check of another kind. So, who is suffering? That is a group that is not in the loop in terms of political power and benefits.

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