Monday, November 2, 2015

Monday 11-02-15

Consent
 
A long while ago a successful California referendum against affirmative action was nullified outright by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Opponents said the referendum suffered from "an excess of democracy", their words, and the court agreed. Apparently the majority needs protection from itself because we aren't good enough for us. So the court used its voter nullification card.
It will be a very long time before the electorate tries it again. Californians and distant observers alike learned a deep lesson, that referendums are an expensive time-consuming hoax, that voters are welcome to jump through meaningless hoops like obedient dogs and all it will amount to is a slapdown by our betters. The fate of referendums is DC's way of telling us they will not let us decide anything of importance.
Then there is voter replacement. When DC wants to know what we citizens think, it asks itself because the citizenry is too annoying to consult even in small matters. In larger matters we've proven ourselves alarmingly unreliable, sometimes to the point of defiance. In matters of real moment they will not tolerate our involvement. There's the chance of actual opposition you see. It's happened.
But there is a problem. The appearance of legitimacy requires some measure of involvement by the electorate. That's why DC is importing a new electorate, largely from Mexico, one noted for its eager malleability. Mexico, having deported tens of millions of their unwanted residents—while DC denies we could do the same—Mexico requires in return is there be no cherry-picking. Mmm kay.
Traditional citizens are left with only one meaningful vote, None Of The Above. That's why productive citizens stream out of the occupied territories, and every state has them, leaving behind reservations skilled only in drawing provisions, its wards and districts net consumers, where growth is reckoned in needy clients. They're demanding but civic-minded, meaning they'll volunteer to be rounded up and trotted to the polls, the trip-lever that releases rations into the trough.
No longer allowed to make natural adjustments on common ground, the nation self-segregates, partitioning itself into fiefdoms whose first act is to menace the others. Government prefers such fragile prey, tense gaggles of exiles and inmates stumbling around in a fogbound maze, disarmed quarry, enmeshed in each other's insurgencies, propaganda blaring from every direction.
DC simply won't allow real change because it's not our government, it's their government. They own it. Ask them. In so many words they'll tell you they're an exceptionally full-service law outfit, judge-jury-executioner and collector of fines. Voters are mere clients, and it doesn't matter to a holding company which of their franchises they choose.
Every four years well-rehearsed dimwits parachute in from the Emerald City and put on their Punch and Judy show, cheering and scolding and imploring and cajoling us to elect them wizards and subwizards. They do this as if their seating arrangement should matter to us, which is all that's being decided. No, it's the turnout that matters, not to the voters, why would it, turnout matters to DC because that's their claim to legitimacy.
Legitimacy comes only from the consent of the governed. Vote-rigging, bogus ballots, bait and switch, and imported electorates are not consent. In the Soviet Union, where open and honest debate was also criminalized—they invented political correctness—turnout was 99%. High turnout implied consent and consent validated their license as owner-operator. The direction of the USSR was, by their own words, pre-decided. Sound familiar? If the destination of a road trip can't be changed, why would changing drivers matter?
There is but one legal strategy remaining to traditional, patriotic Americans. Withold your vote and you withold consent. Withold your consent and you withold legitimacy. The only route to change is empty voting booths. Stay home on election day. Not only is it your civic duty, you aren't really missing anything.
 

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