Dear Reader,
Democratic partisans have plunged into apoplexies, rages and despondencies.
They simply cannot endure an additional four years of Adolf Hitler. I observed a video in which one young woman — a young Black woman — shrieked that she was afraid to sleep.
Why? Because she claimed she feared she would awaken a slave under the president-elect.
Such people illustrate — perfectly — the tragedy of politics.
No rival field of human enterprise approaches politics’ ferocity. War is the extension of what by other means… in Mr. Carl von Clausewitz’s grim telling?
The answer of course is politics.
Politics disunites, divides, disrupts, discombobulates — as war itself disunites, divides, disrupts and discombobulates.
Democratic politics offer no exception. They in fact constitute the very proof of the rule. Assume a democratic election.
In one corner you have Candidate X. In the opposing corner you have Candidate Y…
The Essence of Electoral Politics
Each candidate is little more in this world than a liar, jackleg and rogue.
Yet this human sculch appears before the voter, hopeful of election.
Each roars his flubdubberies before eager and attentive crowds.
Each denounces the other as an arm of Satan. Amazingly, both are often correct. Come the election…
50.1% of voters yank a lever for X. 49.9% pull one for Y.
Thus X claims the laurel. He proceeds instantly against the desires, wishes and interests of the vanquished 49.9%.
Each day they live they must cringe, wither and chafe beneath X’s atrocities… helpless as worms on fishermen’s hooks.
Consider Tuesday’s election.
If Ms. Harris had gotten in, roughly half the nation would have endured an additional four years of unfettered immigration, crime, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, transgender boosting, “green” energy drumming, et cetera.
Instead Mr. Trump got in.
The other half of the nation — the half for Ms. Harris — must now endure four years of dictatorship, democracy-destruction, retribution, isolationism, trade war, racism, sexism, disinformation, transphobia, Russophilia and every other species of calamity.
That is, victory by either candidate leaves roughly half the nation in horrified subjection.
The Beauty of Federalism
The higher the office… the greater the menace it poses to the dissatisfied. For example:
The mayor of Why, Arizona, may impose his torments upon his outvoted victims — as may the mayor of Whynot, North Carolina.
Yet bordering hamlets might run to saner settings as the outvoted sees them.
Thus the political minority can flee, refugees from oppression. They are free to jump the fence.
The same asylum-seeking applies to individual states.
Has a California or an Oregon or an Illinois gone lunatic? For many they have. Yet a Texas or a Tennessee or a Utah holds out its beacon.
These escape valves form a severe brake on the natural rascalities of politics, especially in the American context.
Local competitions, in fact, form the crowning glory of the American device of government.
That of course is federalism.
But to escape a president? A fellow must jump the Rio Grande to the south, the 49th parallel to the north or swim an ocean to the east or west.
If he chooses to linger on, he must rot down four years until he takes another go at the vote booth.
And if the scalawag wins reelection?
Our poor wretch must endure another four years under occupation — for a total of eight.
It rips the very soul out of him.
Contrast the political voting system with the market voting system…
Voting in the Marketplace
Free markets — authentically free markets — lack entirely the violent combats central to politics.
They are scenes of peace, tolerance… and justice. Consider, for example, a theoretical market election.
Behind one podium stands a Coca-Cola. We will label this aspirant Candidate X.
“Vote for me,” yells this candidate. I’m the “real thing.”
Behind the opposing podium stands a Pepsi-Cola — Candidate Y.
“Vote for me,” counters this fellow. Drink me “for the love of it.”
The fickle and capricious voter proceeds to choose. Out comes his wallet, containing his vote.
His dollar is his ballot.
Yet does one man’s vote injure, usurp or ruffle the opposing voter… as it does in politics?
It does not. A voter for either Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola is a satisfied voter.
Multiply this one example countless times and in countless directions. McDonald’s vs. Burger King, Honda vs. Ford, Nike vs. Adidas, Walmart vs. Target… it is all one.
What emerges is a picture of majestic electoral peace and serenity.
Red States and Blue States Unite
Chain a red-state American to a blue-state American. Compel each to vote between any product on the free and open market.
The blue-state voter may razz the red-stater’s ghastly and barbarian tastes. The red-state voter may in turn razz the blue-stater’s effete and supercilious tastes.
Yet neither attempts to dragoon or bludgeon the other. Each concedes the other’s freedom to vote his own way, as he might, according to his liver and lights.
Thus peace prevails between them.
Yet when the political voter steps into the vote booth on Election Day… he places a gun against the other fellow’s ribs.
When he yanks the lever he pulls the trigger.
Two Wolves and a Lamb
We must therefore conclude the free market’s voting system is vastly superior to political voting. It lacks all coercion. It is freedom itself.
Do I propose an alternative to the political arrangement?
No — not earnestly. I merely diagnose a disorder. I do not prescribe a medicine.
In reality politics has us all in siege.
You say the system under which we presently wallow is the best on offer in this sorrowful vale of sin. There is very little alternative. We must simply make the best of it.
You may very well be correct. You are very likely correct.
Yet as old Benny Franklin never said: “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.”
What if you are the lamb?
Regards,
Brian Maher
for Freedom Financial News
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