I Do Not Believe in Your Right to Vote
Nor mine
I find it strange that we assume that we all support the idea of one person, one vote.
At least that’s better than the one-dollar, one-vote system that we have today.
But even so, have you ever met a person? I’m sure you have. If you are anything like me, and you probably are, you would know that a majority or at least a solid plurality of people are absolute morons.
And you think that if you deserve to vote, which you don’t, that it is much easier to support that opinion if you simply say that everyone has the right to vote.
Balderdash. That’s just a cop-out to appease your inner dictator. What you really want is supreme dominance. It’s the best compromise to let everyone else have an equal say appealing to their inner dictator.
You don’t really believe that everyone should have the right to vote.
It’s much harder to defend your real opinion when you get bogged down in the details of your inner politically incorrect belief. Questions like, “Who, in your opinion, shouldn’t be allowed to vote and why?” will earn you the scorn of a nation. Sure, it’s a nation of imbecilic wannabe dictators, but it’s still best to sway them into agreement with you and not make them outwardly hostile to your thoughts.
According to the Dunning Krueger effect, 67% (I’m making up these statistics for efficiency’s sake. Trust me, my numbers are close enough.)
67% of people believe that they are smarter, better, more qualified, more attractive, etc. than a majority of the population. Odds are half these people are dead wrong.
This is why I believe that you do not deserve to have a vote.
This is also the reason why I believe I shouldn’t have the right to vote.
The arrogance that we must possess to assume that each of us knows how to best run a government is laughable. It’s a massive appeal to our egos to tell us that we are all experts in the functioning and operations of a government. I don’t trust my own ego, especially with that degree of ass-kissing. I sure as hell don’t trust your selfish misinformed dumbed-down culturally indoctrinated childish ego with those kinds of decisions.
Why is it so taboo, so forbidden to say out loud, “No, I do not believe in democracy and no, I do not believe in your right to vote. People make bad decisions and you are a people, so no, I don’t trust either you or myself to make important governing decisions.”
Besides, we have accumulated plenty of evidence to support the hypothesis that democracy leads to rule by the least qualified lowest common denominator. We can see that it is a failed system that no one truly believes in as long as those other idiots have an equal say.
Where does this leave us?
It seems that many have decided that the only other option we are aware of must be the right option: Supreme dictatorial authoritarian government. It’s not just the Trumpsters in the United States who have reached this conclusion either. Nations as diverse as the Philippines and Sweden are seeing a rising tide of right-wing nationalism.
But they are relying on those at the top who frame the narrative. Of course, they want you to believe that supreme dictatorial authoritarian control is the only way. Who do you think will be running in and winning those elections? Certainly not you or me.
But that is just another salient point supporting my argument:
People are selfish shits who should not have a place in the governing of themselves.
We’re just too stupid while believing that we are intelligent. We are too selfish to actually care about others. We are too motivated by the pursuit of sex, money, power, fame, and the like to set aside our own ambitions to create a benevolent beneficent, and outrageously cheap government system that we all can agree on without stepping on each other’s toes in the process trying to gain an advantage.
Who or what then should govern us if we can agree that it definitely should not be other people. I can make a good argument for cats and dogs, but the wisdom of our house pets is open to interpretation, especially by those with an agenda, so without an objective and accurate translation of meows and barks, that would just be rule by the most clever and sinister of the humans. Probably a little worse than what we have now.
I would also propose a return to a council of elders, as long as those elders were younger, which leads to a whole new set of problems.
Rule by lottery would likely work better than our current system.
Open government offices could be dolled out like jury duty. “Oh man! I got summoned to be President for the next four years! This sucks!”
Choosing our government officials at random has been shown, theoretically, to result in a better, more accountable, more diverse and inclusive government.
Here’s a link to a 26-page article from 1984 that probably argues very well for election by lottery:
You will note that it is written by a Brit, so obviously the concept can easily be forever censored from American political discussions as “too European.”
Some benefits of government by lottery.
If we chose our government officials by lottery instead of by popular vote, we wouldn’t have the mounting tensions between the two extremes of our two-party system. A lottery would very effectively stave off the potential of a Civil War. Not that our Dorito-loving asses would ever get off the couch to actually go fight in a Civil War, but it would quell the talk of such an event on all fronts, from TV talking heads to Monday morning armchair quarterbacks.
The government of the United States would start to be a functioning government again. Our so-called representatives of today have no accountability to anyone but the power centers in their respective parties. They certainly aren’t accountable to their constituents; although they give plenty of lip service to that and spend plenty of time trying to convince us that they are accountable to us and that they represent our best interests.
However, even selecting government officials via a lottery still leaves us with the same core problem: the winners of an election will still be human beings. And I have already given plenty of evidence why this is unacceptable.
So, what then?
The Anunaki. Space-faring gods who likely created us to be their slaves left the planet years ago, leaving us to our own devices. They seem like the natural choice to lead us by divine right. After all, a species created to be slaves probably is mentally ill-equipped to rule itself. Any real leadership qualities would have been bred out of our species eons ago and we would be hard-pressed to notice that.
The only other option I can see is rule by artificial intelligence.
But dear God, most definitely not the current iteration of what we are calling artificial intelligence that we have today. I have had enough moronic conversations with Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa to know how incredibly stupid artificial intelligence is at this moment.
But at some point in the not-too-distant future, artificial intelligence will surpass the human race in terms that we may just find electable.
In addition to not having a pesky ego to contend with, artificial intelligence also comes with no political baggage. You can rest assured that A.I. has never cheated on either its spouse nor its taxes. We are virtually guaranteed a prudent and practical platform from A.I. candidates. And except for the potential of going Skynet on us ala the Terminator movie franchise exterminating all humans, A.I. is inherently more trustworthy than any human candidate.
Artificial intelligence is our only real solution to creating a functional government without politics. A government without politics and politicians being the most important goal for us to achieve.
Until we reach the point where it becomes possible to begin to debate the benefits of government by artificial intelligence, it seems like we are stuck with government rule by politicians. A system which has shown repeatedly over the last two hundred years to have been a very poor decision.
As I mentioned in another post, we could always just agree to elevate my house-cats to Supreme Emperor and Empress of the world. They are very soft and adorable.
