‘This isn’t your father’s’ minority, though - we are not the ‘loyal opposition’. And, it isn’t enough that we merely accept minority status. Not nearly. We must not only line up and salute. We must swear oaths and celebrate the eternal evils which are sacraments of the left - like cheering the fundamental right of a 13 year old to have her breasts and genitalia removed surgically; just for instance. Refuse and you will be crushed.
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Beyond the fact that I believe it is more likely than not that the counting of votes in blue states is institutionally and massively corrupt (you don’t think the lawlessness of the cities doesn’t extend to the “officials” who count the votes do you?) - IF it is true that we are in the minority - it is as Rush (peace be upon him) used to say, “You can’t compete with Santa Claus”. The question then becomes, "What happens when the demoralized and enslaved elves quit manufacturing the bread and circuses (and buying the debt)?
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There isn’t any divine mandate that enshrines universal adult suffrage as the only right and proper way to select delegates and resolve issues. Indeed, among major religions, I cannot think of a single one which even mentions such a system in its scriptures. Neither Britain nor the U.S. had anything like universal suffrage in their formative periods, and neither granted the vote to women until the 20th century. The U.S. Constitution is a grab-bag of anti-majoritarian mechanisms, and almost every U.S. state constitution contained anti-majoritarian representation intended to prevent rural areas from being dominated by the iniquitous hives of villainy that are cities until this was swept away in the 1960s by the supreme court under the made-up doctrine of “One man, one vote”.
There are a lot of ways to organise representative government, many of which have been explored in libertarian science fiction: some based in history and some innovative and based upon new ideas and technologies. These might include property qualifications to vote (as existed in the U.S. and Britain for many years), restricting the franchise to net taxpayers or scaling votes by the voter’s net contribution to the public fisc, direct democracy where individuals could assign their vote to a proxy representative who would exercise it (with proxies being revocable at any time), with or without the ability of proxies to be bought, sold and traded. Votes might be given to all citizens, regardless of age, with parents having the right to cast the votes of their minor children (this would probably increase the stability of the society dramatically). One of the planets in Karl Gallagher’s Torchship novels is a pure plutocracy where seats in the legislature are auctioned to the highest bidder, which has the unexpected consequence that the society is largely run by guilds who combine dues of their members to buy seats to represent their interests.
Now, many people may not be able to imagine that any such radical change could occur from the present system, but who in 1900 imagined direct election of senators, or in 1950 abolition of regional representation in state governments, or in 2015 mass mail-in voting with no effective voter ID? When something isn’t working, it can be changed, and when change happens, it can be faster and greater in magnitude than many imagined were possible.
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Inspiring….I hafta look up the 1950 thing.
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I hesitate to disagree with the Master – but we have to ask ourselves “Is something not working”?
Ask Hillary! Clinton. She would undoubtedly say that the voting system had a serious problem some years ago, resulting in her election being misappropriated – but now that hole has been permanently plugged, and no such voting system failure will ever happen again. System is now A OK!
Agreed that universal suffrage is a Bad Idea. However, the opportunity to change that to a more restricted (earned?) suffrage will not occur until things get very much worse – economic collapse or total humiliation in a very destructive war.
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In 1789 We The People initiated a republic. The U.S.A. later devolved into a democracy, and in the 2010s the U.S.A. became an oligarchy.
God willing, the world network of liberty minded individuals will find a way to make the world more peaceful and prosperous.
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Some propaganda from a different time. British posters published by the Liberal Party ahead of the 1924 general election comparing the socialist, conservative and liberal ways of governance:
Source: https://twitter.com/propagandopolis/status/1590843942639132672
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