The illusion of choice — reposting because the original article has been deleted.
Praising democracy, Abraham Lincoln said you can only fool all of us sometimes, and only some of us always, but then the spin doctors realised that’s all they need to do.
1/ The most effective and most unchallenged form of human control is that which the population doesn’t see.
2/ Who is going to rebel about not being free when they think they are?
3/ Key to that illusion of freedom is the illusion of choice.
4/ Once people realise they have no choice in the force and agenda that governs their society, the penny drops that they live in a one-party state, a tyranny.
5/ The task of any control system, therefore, is to maintain the facade of political choice and central to this is ‘the people’s right to vote’.
6/ This is seen as the ultimate confirmation of a ‘free’ society — people can cast their vote every four or five years to ‘choose’ their government and so, by definition, they must live in a free country.
7/ But, of course, the equation of democracy = freedom is a nonsense from the start. At best democracy is the dictatorship of the majority and in many ‘democratic’ countries governments are formed from less than half the votes.
8/ A population is sold the lie that democracy means freedom, behind which a tyranny can operate unseen and so unchallenged.
9/ For a vote to be worth anything it must be cast as a choice between different political and policy options.
10/ If those options, with their different names, colours and rhetoric, are basically the same there is no choice and Thus the vote is worthless.
11/ With this, the concept of a free country must fall, even under the illusory and tenuous definition of the right to vote meaning that you must be ‘free’.
12/ America and Britain are one-party states with no real choice of political options and this has been achieved through systematic manipulation over decades.
