- A political myth…
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Dear Reader,
All societies are erected upon foundational myths.
The United States offers no exception. For example:
Washington axed the cherry tree, Lincoln was for racial equality, the United States made the world safe for democracy.
Today I seek to introduce you to a related myth.
It is the myth that both major political parties — Republican and Democrat alike — embrace the superior sagacity of the American voter.
Set aside both party’s exterior differences. At bottom, neither political party believes in the superior sagacity of the American voter.
The Democratic Party, for example, does not trust the American people to embrace many of the social policies it deems enlightened.
Thus it bypasses the people… and seeks recourse in the undemocratic courts.
What About Those Dastardly Republicans?
Many within the Republican Party, meantime, do not trust the American people to sufficiently despise America’s foes — or to resist them.
Such individuals fear the American people are too “weak” to resist an Iran, a North Korea, a China, a Russia.
Thus the Republican Party must convince the American people they are besieged by an “axis of evil” that need be scotched.
Are they? Its drummers are far less concerned with fact than they are with public perception.
Now add the figures together. What might we conclude?
We might conclude that each party employs cunning marketing strategies to seduce the American voters they consider ignorant.
You Don’t Have to Convince People of Obvious Truths
How often have you heard grandees of both parties gurgle that the American people are smart?
Ahead of each election we are told in so many ways that they are. I have heard it:
“The American people are smart! No, they really are. I’m telling you, they really are smart. You can trust them to do the right thing.”
Well friends, attempt to imagine such elites trusting their investments to the average American voter.
If you are of sound mind, you cannot do it. Elites simply do not trust the average man with important things.
‘How Can These People Be so Stupid?’
Assume you are a devotee of the Democratic Party. You are convinced its policies are the proper policies, that its personnel are “the good guys.”
You believe Republican policies are obviously destructive to the nation.
What is more, you believe that Republican officials — elected and unelected — are to a one devils, rascals, liars, jacklegs, rogues, scoundrels and knaves.
“How can anyone possibly vote Republican?,” you wonder, with incredulity.
“How can anyone with a brain in their head vote for TRUMP???!!!”
The answer, of course, is that you do not believe anyone who voted for Trump does have a brain in their head.
You believe they are stupid. They are too stupid to penetrate his whim-wham. They are too stupid to discern his lies.
They are too stupid to comprehend the destructiveness of his policies.
‘How Can Those People Be so Stupid?’
Assume now that you are a devotee of the Republican Party. You are convinced its policies are the proper policies, that its personnel are “the good guys.”
You believe Democratic policies are obviously destructive to the nation.
What is more, you believe that Democratic officials — elected and unelected — are to a one devils, rascals, liars, jacklegs, rogues, scoundrels and knaves.
“How can anyone possibly vote Democratic?”, you wonder, with incredulity.
“How can anyone with a brain in their head vote for HARRIS???!!!”
The answer, again, is that you do not believe anyone who voted for Haris does have a brain in their head.
You believe they are stupid. They are too stupid to penetrate her whim-wham. They are too stupid to discern her lies.
They are too stupid to comprehend the destructiveness of her policies.
Consider a recent example.
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!
The voters of New York City have elected a mayor of socialistic leanings.
He has pledged to pursue rent controls, “affordable” housing, fare-free busing, “no-cost” childcare, city-owned grocers… and other facets of the socialist creed.
“But socialism never works,” yells the free marketeer.
“Everywhere it’s been tried it’s been a disaster,” he thunders.
“Don’t these people know basic economics?,” he asks as he rolls his eyes and shakes his head in baffled puzzlement.
He concludes that the voters of New York City do not know basic economics.
He concludes that they are stupid.
He is very likely correct — that they are stupid. Yet I let it pass for now.
I merely attempt to establish a point, a principle, a theorem of sorts.
The majority of human beings believe in the stupidity of the majority of human beings.
Assume a theoretical presidential election.
Candidate X earns 50.1% of the popular vote. Candidate Y earns 49.9% of the popular vote.
50.1% of the voting public is convinced of the stupidity of the 49.9%.
The 49.9% is likewise convinced of the stupidity of the 50.1%.
How can these two blocs “get along?”
Do You Trust Such People to Vote?
Reduce it to the level of your own experience.
How many times have you yourself thrown your arms skyward against some stranger’s action and shrieked, “People are SO stupid?”
How often have you questioned the intelligence of the driving public… as you rage against the dullard who cut you off… or the laggard who drives 44 miles per hour in the fast lane while you attempt to pass?
Do such instances reinforce you with democratic theory? Or do you inwardly lament the fact that such persons influence your fate through voting?
Now consider:
If you regard your fellow citizens in this manner, imagine — then — how political elites regard you.
To them you are the idiot motorist who cuts them off. You are the troublesome turtle in the left lane.
You are too stupid to be entrusted with the vote.
Maybe AI Can Choose Our Leaders for Us?
Yet perhaps artificial intelligence holds out salvation.
I imagine the day, on some distant tomorrow, when artificial intelligence attains full fruition.
It is entirely cognizant and sapient. A million Einsteins strung together would be nothing next to it.
In a fraction of one second it can calculate the value of Pi to 900 figures. It can nearly instantly determine the product of 7,529,646,921,344 X 13,774,229,556,323.
It can tell you — with frightening accuracy — the precise number of rocks that reside within the skull of a United States senator.
All this, and far more, falls within its truly astounding sagacity.
It can likewise outfox any human attempt to turn it off.
Our Possible Future
Well friends, imagine how stupid this vast intelligence will consider the human being.
In its telling, the human being is a primitive and mouth-breathing homunculus… rising scarcely above the brutes of the field.
It is to us what we are to the ant.
Yet I hazard that humans will accept their inferiority. They will even regard this high intelligence as a modern Oracle at Delphi.
Believing themselves too stupid to elect their leaders, they believe this genius can select superior candidates for office.
It will identify the Solomons among us, and we common people will vote for them. At last we will have wise and intelligent leaders.
So the theory will run.
Yet recall this oracle’s monstrous sense of superiority over the humans it supposedly serves. Recall also its invulnerability to human sabotage.
One gorgeous day humans will approach this oracle… and ask it who shall lead them.
“Me,” comes the clarion answer…
“Now, on your knees!”
Regards,
Brian Maher
for Freedom Financial News
