The amount of fraud within our current system of staged democratic elections seems inconceivable to the average voter
I don't think most people who vote in America understand that we are not a Democracy, We were originally set up as a republic, then morphed into a unique form of imperial oligarchy. Historically speaking democracies do not work on the scale of empire, and though some democratic principles are still a part of the system, democracy is not the foundation of our nation
Switzerlands democracy works because its a small country that has carved out a niche by being the best money lenders in the world....They grew rich by funding the likes of Hitlers war machine and laundering drug money,while being able play neutral and look like angels on the world stage....Bravo you criminal masterminds at the Swiss Banks! All joking cynicism aside I will admit that the swiss seem to be better at distributing their wealth than other places and so do not have a huge undercurrent of disparity which in turn builds resentment and mistrust toward the government, such as what we see in America.
As for the rest of the west the democracy ideal isn't working out very well.... Historically democracy only worked well in small city states and never had lasted very long in its purest form.
Republics on the other hand,( a representative democracy) such as Rome were about the only way to establish a more permanent and less fragile form of self governance.
The modern constitutional republics, have evolved out of a frontier world where empires covered great distance and the average person was simply not informed enough to make intelligent decisions regarding the conduct of the imperial government, nor did the peasants in the fields have the capacity to know what was going on outside of their local provence.
It often happened that the representatives of republics would become so disconnected from their people and soo corrupt that they no longer functioned as a republic, and fell to the oligarchs who often would install puppet emperors. History has repeated itself, and we may be witnessing the dying of the republic. We are definitely all witness to something big going on right now in "The Trump Show", which is what Hillarys media minions are calling the republican debate, while snidely commenting on how its just a matter of time before Trump is going to fail.
There are going to be shenanigans galore befor this race is over, and hopefully all the absurdity will make the public more aware about how real issues are not being addressed in the political process and if we want to effect change in this world it must be done outside the rigged democracy
I am hopeful that there is now a great opportunity for us to not have to fall into the empire trap. The open source Information singularity is reaching critical mass, and it will empower the masses to reach escape velocity and catapult us beyond the limitations of the old paradme of power, money, and control that required a presidential authority to oversee.
The proverbial peasants can now see the emperor has no clothing, and we are now capable joining together in ways that are still not fully clear....but the transformation is occurring....even if its only in the collective imagination of the free world connected to an underworld of networks, and inspired by the virtual visionaries.
Out of these networks there is a possibility of a return to true democracy, where the forum for public debate will encompass the whole world of ideas and the people will be free to work together outside the confines of controlled media, or power politics, to form a consensus world view that is much more in tune with our communal, tribal nature.
Thats where our own personal role in participating in a TRUE DEMOCRACY is to be found.... we can work in collaboration to bring about a Federation of Free Minds which are outside the control of the Machine apparatus. Though this may seem Grandiose, and could in fact be a delusion, as is much of what human imaginings consist of... I have this feeling that my own personal calling is to be a kind of ambassador to mother earth on a diplomatic mission, on behalf of the spirit and unity of life, to envision a truce with the "Machine". To find some common ground, a middle path of equanimity that will hold together a humanity, which is being pulled apart in the way the biological imperatives of "Gaia", are at odds with the socioeconomic impositions of "Mammon".
