Some democracy, America

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The American President is selling a product that America does not have.

by Anwaar Hussain

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President Bush is in Europe flaunting, in a hard sell pitch, his brand of democracy to the world at large and to Russia in particular. He is known to have said: “We believe that the voice of the people ought to be determining policy, because we believe in democracy.”

That, ladies and gentlemen, is as fallacious a statement as any that the President of United States has been giving since he took over the reins of his great country. Fallacious too because the American President is selling a product that America does not have.

Granted that we in the Muslim countries have not much idea of the fruits of democracy, having been perpetually ruled by kings, despots, generals, tyrants, autocrats and dictators of all hues. Granted too the fact that no democracy is perfect and at any given time it is either getting better or getting worse, yet the President’s statement is a wholly fallacious one. Fallacious because despite calling itself ‘the champion of democracy’, internally, the U.S. has hardly ever had a direct democracy where American people determine American policy, the true essence of democracy, and externally, it has a long and sordid record of closely coddling mambas like Pol Pots, Marcoses and Zias of the yore. The American President is selling a product that America does not have.

The President’s statement is fallacious because corporate corruption of American politicians and government has shredded to bits whatever semblance of democracy America was left with. Fallacious too because instead of having democracy in the decision making institutions of America it is rather the fine art of corporate corruption that now stands democratized and institutionalized with all now having a chance at equal opportunity corruption. All it takes is money. Corporate corruption in America is now at a stage where it has become a bipartisan, open, and legal practice with Americans finally coming to accept it as a status quo, an integral part of a dollar-driven, cheating culture. The American President is selling a product that America does not have.

The President’s statement is fallacious because it is now plain for all to see that misrepresentative government and corporatism has oppressed American citizenry to the extent that their democracy has become nothing more than a corporate theocracy, a fascist feudal state in which “the serfs” serve the corporate state as voiceless workers, voracious consumers, submissive citizens and pliant subjects. The American President is selling a product that America does not have.

The President’s statement is fallacious because the immoral alliance that he and his predecessors have been having with dictators the world over runs exactly counter to the false pledges of democracy to their subjects. Fallacious too because those who cosset ruling tyrants cannot advocate for themselves the exclusive privilege of bringing democracy to the oppressed. The American President is selling a product that America does not have.

The President’s statement is fallacious because despite the fact that for all his internal and foreign misadventures, from social issues to Iraq war, the support of American masses having decidedly moved from a trusting to a distrusting majority, he presses on stubbornly. Fallacious because while clinging doggedly to his disastrous policies, he is known to have called himself ‘the decider’ on more than one occasion. Fallacious too because despite the aforementioned fact, there is not one single institution in that ‘mother of all democracies’ that can help loosen the death like grip of the yellow fangs of his administration from the jugular of its unfortunate victims. The American President is selling a product that America does not have.

The President’s statement is fallacious because contrary to its democratic plumage, his own party’s strategy is now out in the open. And that is a Republican Party that permanently runs the United States and a United States that permanently runs the world. Fallacious too because the severely mauled, but still breathing, democratic opposition has so far miserably failed to nip in the bud this wicked vision of a one-party global empire. The American President is selling a product that America does not have.

The President’s statement is fallacious because he has had real laws passed at home that have torn bomb-size holes in the Bill of Rights, set into motion an actual shift of American judiciary toward the radical right and has so fused his government with corporations, the military, portions of the media and a hugely expanded secret police apparatus that now it scares the living daylights out of common Americans. The American President is selling a product that America does not have.

The President’s statement is fallacious because the world can see his quisling lackeys overseeing his experiments in Afghanistan and Iraq about to roll in dust and his ally in Pakistan looking with stunning disbelief at the shifting sands of national opinion beneath his feet. Fallacious too because had his vision of democracy bore even a scrap of resemblance to the original idea, his friends in these countries would have been elevated to prophet hood by the innocent masses of these countries. The American President is selling a product that America does not have.

The President’s statement is fallacious because we the world can see that for us at least, American democracy has boiled down to nothing more than that of a lynch mob who vote on the fate of their victims even as the rope is being readied to carry out the inevitable verdict. The American President is selling a product that America does not have.

The President’s statement is fallacious because American democracy is not only not a democracy; it is in fact the exact opposite…a ‘minocracy’. He is trying to sell to the world a system in which if only 60% of the people bother to cast their vote, in a majority system with two parties, 31% of the electorate can impose its will on the remaining 69%; and with three parties competing, 21% of the people could rule a country through an appointed elite. The American President is selling a product that America does not have.

The President’s statement is fallacious because American democracy has actually translated itself into vesting the incredible amount of the power of the President of United States into a mediocrity like the incumbent President with disastrous results for America and the world at large. Fallacious because mediocrity has now become the rule and unlimited irresponsibility one of the privileges associated with his kind of totalitarian democracy. Fallacious too because with the justification of a popular mandate, a third-rate politician has been given the licence to squander resources and bringing chaos into the world without the fear of being held accountable for it. The American President is selling a product that America does not have.

Some democracy, America.




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7 Responses to “Some democracy, America”

  1. Roger Hathaway on June 6th, 2007 10:19 pm

    While many politicians use their pulpits to tout “democracy,” isn’t it strange that no one ever tries to define it? America was founded as a constitutional republic whose most wonderful quality was that it limited government to a very minor role, permitting the dynamics of struggle to evolve the society to an ever higher state. Individuals were responsible for themselves, and those who defaulted were free to fail. Just like nature’s law of “survival of the fittest.” Such freedom permits genetic or social progress, wherein the best of men will lead the entire society to higher levels. Our founders warned of the danger of letting the republic degenerate into a democracy.
    A democracy is a form of socialism in which the majority who are less educated and less capable get to vote the profits of producers into their own pockets. As we have seen, that lower echelon of society has become arrogant and defiant and reigns supreme over the achievers, just like ants over aphids. The bizarre irony is that ants are truly industrious while our masses are sluggards. Yet, they both rule over the producers!
    The bizarre is quickly understood when one realizes that the welfare-demanding masses are not actually ruling, but are mere pawns of a small number of elitists who operate the puppet strings from behind the curtain. They are, of course, the Jewish bankers and investment groups who own the corporations, along with the food and fuel supplies. That elite group of Illuminists can afford to pander to the lazy masses by giving them a small portion of their plunder.
    No, sir, we have neither a republic nor a democracy. We have an oligarchy whose agenda is not known to the people, nor even the identities of those who rule over us.
    Further, the Iraq war is going more wonderfully than the elitists could have hoped. The Middle East is in shambles, with four civil wars in progress inside Arab nations, plus the irreconcilable divisions within Islam itself. America, Britain, and Europe are all disintegrating economically and socially and culturally. The victory over European Christian culture is within reach.
    Mr. Hussain, you speak of mediocrity becoming the rule. Well, that is but a temporary condition as we descend toward total collapse. The most difficult notion for any decent person to ever realize is that there is an evil power being exercised deliberately, intentionally, by those who seek our destruction. No person of noble ideals could ever work the destruction of this world like the present powers are doing. Only Satanic cleverness and deceit could accomplish what they are doing. I believe that the moment will come when it will be revealed that the rulers are true Satanists, really worshiping a Satan in whom they believe. I wonder if you have seen the many photos of Pres. Bush, his wife, and even his daughters, making the Satanist symbol with their hands. The salute is to fold the two middle fingers over so the index finger and the pinky are straight. This salute is known to all occultists and Satanists of the world. Pres. Bush even made the salute while posing with Queen Elizabeth and her husband, along with Mrs. Bush on the capitol steps. How brazen! He must feel that victory is but a small step away yet. But, it is difficult for good-hearted people of the world to admit into their conscious minds such a horrific truth that Satanists are attempting to destroy the world’s civilizations in order to achieve their version of hell on earth. And, what jars me greatly is the idea that simple men could not achieve this on their own, but that there really must be such a power behind them to guide them.
    Our Bible says, “we war not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of the darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”
    The good peoples of the world just do not know the identity of the enemy who has us nearly destroyed, and who more boldly and gleefully begins his victory dance. Our Bible reveals the true descendants of Jacob/Israel to be God’s chosen ones. Those twelve tribes had emblems on their flags which still fly over the nations of northern Europe. The Bible reveals the descendants of Esau/Edom to be those who took over Judea and Jerusalem through their Herodian leaders before Jesus was born, and those same Edomites retained the name Judeans (Jews) as they were dispersed into Italy, Spain, and eastern Russia (Khazaria). Those Edomites are the same genetic descendants of Esau who rule over the world today, just as Isaac promised to his son, Esau, -that he would have his time of dominion over Jacob. Yes, Esau is having his dominion, and we are unable to prevent it because it is in accord with God’s Divine Plan. God is using Satan’s people to accomplish the complete destruction of world civilization, just as the prophets foretold.
    So, while the Edomites are exercising ever greater injustice, they are accumulating more and more debt which will bring forth the annihilating wrath of God on their heads. Yes, Esau has a time of dominion, but he does not have to use it for injustice and evil. For those crimes, he will pay several times the penalty of what he has done.
    The great battle of God, called “Armageddon,” is underway. I rage at the injustice of our enemy, but I also smile because I know the end of the play. It will be a theocracy, neither a republic nor a democracy!
    Roger Hathaway, in southwest Virginia

  2. Anwaar on June 6th, 2007 10:26 pm

    Roger Hathaway of Southwest Virginia, you have said what I could not, despite my best efforts.

    Salutes for that.

    Anwaar

  3. jim slaybaugh on June 7th, 2007 3:42 am

    Anwaar:
    Accurate,Articulate,Honest,and Incisive.
    I am 70 and I lost faith in the system long ago.
    The Military/Industrial/Political Complex rules and
    democracy has been dead for a long time.
    Thank you for speaking the truth.
    jim

  4. Tom Edgar on June 7th, 2007 8:36 am

    Well I didn’t think I would,openly, disagree with Anwar. Whilst Hathaway’s diatribe had some truths
    he descended into Biblical nonsense, I make allowances he is after all from Virginia.

    To agree with this religious nonsense is to capitulate completely. “It is foretold in the Bible.” So why bother fighting? Everything will come out in the “Prophesised” wash gleaming white.

    Face it. Not only is the U S A not a Democracy. No other country can truly claim that distinction.
    Other nations in the “Western” world approach it to greater or lesser degreesbut I know of none that have a system where the people have any say other than at elections where they vote in the next set of Dictators for varying periods.

    To quote, or misquote, Winston Churchill. “Democracy is a terrible system of Government but it is, so far, better than any other prevailing.” Allowing that the term “Democracy” is used with a large degree of poetic licence, the ideal is still true.

    Leaving it to some maginary supreme being, whatever (s)he may be named, to come along on an even more imaginary date to fix things up will only see things become worse.

    No ethereal being will call Bush, Cheney, Rove, Blair, or Howard and their followers to account.

    I despair at the thought that people of adult years would even think this way. Enough to make me stop trying. Tom Edgar > tomedgar@halenet.com.au

  5. Virgil on June 7th, 2007 9:16 am

    Good piece, Anwaar, I don’t think I have had three seconds of freedom in the USA since 1967; and since about 1972 I have had the rights of a laboratory animal.

    Regards,

    Virgil

  6. Anwaar on June 7th, 2007 1:44 pm

    I should have been more specific on Hathaway’s comment Tom. My mistake.

    Any one who has ever read me knows what views I hold on religions. However, it was on paras like the following that I do agree with Hathaway;

    “While many politicians use their pulpits to tout “democracy,” isn’t it strange that no one ever tries to define it? America was founded as a constitutional republic whose most wonderful quality was that it limited government to a very minor role, permitting the dynamics of struggle to evolve the society to an ever higher state. Individuals were responsible for themselves, and those who defaulted were free to fail. Just like nature’s law of “survival of the fittest.” Such freedom permits genetic or social progress, wherein the best of men will lead the entire society to higher levels. Our founders warned of the danger of letting the republic degenerate into a democracy.”

    and,

    “No, sir, we have neither a republic nor a democracy. We have an oligarchy whose agenda is not known to the people, nor even the identities of those who rule over us.

    Further, the Iraq war is going more wonderfully than the elitists could have hoped. The Middle East is in shambles, with four civil wars in progress inside Arab nations, plus the irreconcilable divisions within Islam itself.”

    Anwaar

    PS : And please do disagree Tom whenever you feel I have been in error according to your opinion. How else would we continue an educated debate.

  7. mpcasey on August 12th, 2007 1:59 pm

    Hi you Guys
    Keep discussing. You are all aiming in the same direction and hate the status quo. That is to be commended. Each in your own ways you seek freedom and justice for all.
    Margaret

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