We, of the modern era, believe that we are more highly advanced than our predecessors. In many physical and environmental aspects, this assessment is correct. Digging deeper than the surface, however, it becomes clear that our best days are in the rear view mirror. While the word “democracy” is over-used and abused, this writer must posit that what passes for democracy today is merely a highly refined form of feudalism, with a duopolized ballot box thrown in for the sole purpose of decorating our labor camp.
In the olden times, tenants rented their land from the local lord or knight in the form of direct taxes. The local lord, in turn, obtained his lease from the prince or similar dignitary, who granted the lords and knights their castles, lands, and serfs based on the lords' promises to protect the prince. The feudal system worked well for the people it aimed to benefit: The nobility profited immensely as power and wealth were systematically strip mined from the serfs and trickled up through the scheming "noble" classes.
Looking at the current political system, it is hard to miss the similarities with feudalism. First, we must have a basic understanding of how our system is supposed to work. The Constitution outlines a tricameral republic, not a democracy. Honestly, in a country this big, a democracy, where citizens vote on every issue to be considered, would simply be crippling and impractical. Instead, the founders invented a system whereby three houses of government would handle the nation's business, representing the interests of the sovereign states and the people, and would do battle with each other. Similar to the aeronautical principles of drag stabilization, it was a planned inefficiency that would lead to long-term stabilization as our civilization passed through history's arc.
Yet, we have removed the safeguards in a quest for “democracy.” Our states can no longer be called anything more than departments of the Federal Government. Through funding and manipulation, they are thralls of the great white father in Washington, just as the lords and knights owed their fealty to their local nobility in olden times. We find ourselves inside this tapestry of social injustice, not as the ubermensch democrats who run the show, but, rather, as the vulnerable serfs who are robbed blind, grinding away hard lives under the collectivist thumbs of oppressive politicians and corporations. These robber barons want to control our bodies and our minds, even as they crush our souls and deny our spirits cries for freedom.
If one doubts this, one need simply look around at the society we have come to accept. Since the Civil War, we have come to accept standing armies and drafts as vital to the national defense. Where are such things permitted in the Constitution? We accept Social Security, directly apportioned income taxes, fiat money, and a federal banking cartel as beneficial institutions. In fact, they were disallowed in the Constitution because they are designed to use our own wealth to manipulate us into vulnerable subservience to soulless men who want to exploit us. There are other mysteries that need solving, too. I want to know why my car has black boxes that violate my fifth-amendment rights. I want to know why my dollar is worth less than the Canadian dollar. I want to know why the Federal Government subsidizes obesity by using subsidies to manipulate the corn and sugar markets. I want to know why we feel the need to put all financial institutions under the power of a private banking cartel, the Federal Reserve System. From free speech to drugs to privacy to guns, we are under Big Brother's thumb, now more than at any time in the past.
Now, we are told to sacrifice the private stewardship of the environment to the same people who tacitly approved the poisoning of vast tracts of the New World by their corporate friends. We are told that we should trust these self-serving automatons with our most intimate need, healthcare. Are these the same officials who, after sending our peers to war, brought them back broken and torn, only to refuse them medical care? I posit that the government has had more than enough chances to make good on the promises of yesteryear. I demand a reckoning of the services done with the powers already provided.
Emancipate the American serfs. Give freedom a chance.