The United States is the world’s oldest functioning democratic republic. This means, of course, the American citizens have the power to elect their own representatives and have had it for a long time –with progressing degrees of participation. After World War I, the democratic idea became a reality throughout the entirety of Europe—largely by force. These fledgling democracies proved fragile, because so many citizens with little to no political awareness suddenly found themselves choosing the men who would dictate their nation’s policy. They had a new and unfamiliar power.
Europe’s switch from monarchy to democracy came at a curiously convenient time for some. In 1917, the Bolsheviks managed to take control of Russia, while the other European powers were busy in war. In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx (the father of classic communism) had predicted a proletariat revolution throughout Europe, and Vladimir Lenin (the father of modern communism) aimed to see communism spread to the ends of the earth. Sounds like an imperial ideology. Surrounded by crippled, fledgling states, the time to incite revolution throughout the continent had come.
The fear of communism was one of the prods which stoked the German people into bringing Hitler and his National Socialist Party to power. Had the Kaiserreich remained in tact and the harsh war reparations not been imposed upon Germany, the USSR might have never been allowed to form in the first place. One can surely bet, though, that the Nazis would not have taken power. Likely, then, we could have avoided all the horrible bloodshed and everything else which came along with World War II, then the Cold War, the Police State, etc. But, war turns the wheels of the state.
Lenin once said, “Democracy is indispensable to socialism.” He was right. As we’ve seen, a group always exists who simply wants to vote itself more free stuff, and a politician always exists to give it to them in exchange for position. As unfortunate as that is, it gets worse. So many people will always act based upon their emotions instead of logic. Some people simply lack the ‘rational’ part of “rational self interest”. This is a deep rabbit hole we could follow for volumes.
Many people can be trained to abandon their rational self interest, and you can believe people work to see this happen. Through the science of crowd psychology, businessmen, bankers, and rulers have seen this into action. For instance, Edward Bernays, the father of public relations, used the feminist movement to get women smoking cigarettes which opened an entirely new market for the tobacco companies. This form of science was cutting edge in the early twentieth century, and people worked tirelessly to exploit the individual’s penchant to align himself with a collective.
Democracy is rule by the majority, and all the criminal elite needs is 51% consent. They work toward this by social programming on all fronts: on tv, online, in the street, or in the classroom. Democracy can only work if enough individuals take the time, use the proper reasoning to see people, ideas, and policies for what they truly are. Another quote of Lenin reveals much about the constant precariousness of our position: “The goal of socialism is communism.” It’s pretty simple. It’s easy to see that as long as socialism, communism or any other totalitarian idea exists, a danger always looms at the door of any democracy. Is democracy our best choice for state structure? Did we digress from monarchy? Is there an idea nobody has tried which solves all our problems? That’s just some food for thought to consider while lying in the bed or sitting on the toilet. But I digress.
The voter must always remain vigilant no matter the circumstances. In his spare time, the voter should also try to educate his friends—red pill them. Plenty of people with plenty of resources would rather educate people to be malleable drones. One of those people was Antonio Gramsci who played an instrumental role in shaping the modern public education system. In my next article, we’ll consider the role of totalitarian communism (a bit redundant) in the public school system. If you want to learn more about social programming, read The Crowd by Gustave le Bon or Propaganda by Edward Bernays. In the meantime, stay vigilant.