Hi. This Leo
Volont.
This is Part
Three of my Seven Part Series
Democracy a Bad Thing
This is Chapter “Enlightenment Ends Enter Democracy”
We discuss here the largely unspoken rule in Democracy that
majorities can be too big, and that we need a lot of losers because they’re the
ones we make pay all the bills.
(11)That is where Democracy enters in. At first Universal
Suffrage was the farthest thing from their minds. At first they insisted on property
qualifications. The nascent Capitalists should
have locked in their control of Government and obviated all hope for a
Democratically installed Leftist government by insisting on Tax Proportional
Voting. Tax Proportional voting, in perfect
terms, would be where the Electoral System would recognize as many Votes
as units of Tax Revenue they
receive. Your Tax Receipt would show
how many votes you would be entitled to.
You would get whatever power you paid for, you know, just like now but it would be upfront and
above board and honestly administered.
Nothing would be fairer than that, right? But the Business Class wanted only the
Political Power while wishing to shift the Tax Burden to some other class.
(12)So, yeah, the way
it works is all the factions in a Democracy wish to be part of a coalition
large enough to win an election all with the understanding of maximizing their
returns while minimizing their obligations.
They do not want to owe too much to too many. That gives Democracy the appearance of a kind
of abiding Intuitive Paradox. We hear
all the time about "Land Slides" and "Mandates" and this
give us the impression that practically the entire electorate voted unanimously
giving a general popular consent. But
then look at the actual numbers. the Majority
count might be a bit larger than 51% but that just means that somebody miscalculated somewhere and now some
superfluous interest group will be side by side
with all the other piglets sucking at the teets instead of putting their backs to the oars and helping to pay for everybody else's dance
party. Big Mandates are actually Big
Messups. This is why the Rule of
Majority is so important. Any faction or
alliance of factions only needs to get 51% of the Vote to take over the
Government. Democracy is basically the
Tyranny of the 51% over the 49. Played
out perfectly the 51% should derive all the benefits while the 49% pay all the
bills.
(13) But, yeah, why were poor people ever even allowed to
get into this game? Why did anybody ever think a Universal Franchise was a good
idea? Well, look at the Demographics
during the 19th Century. The French
Physiocrats, you remember, the Economic School that thought all Wealth derived
from the land, well, they at least looked correct in their thinking from the demographic
perspective back then. There were a
great many independent farmers that had property enough to qualify to vote, but
still the Businessmen were relatively few.
So the Business Community must have thought long and hard. If the Poor People were brought into the
franchise, well, whose side would they
vote for? In language, culture and manners the Wealthy Businessman was not
much above his poor and miserable fellows.
Really, the only difference between a Successful Capitalist and a
Miserable Worker, is that the one has on a new suit of cloths. They could dress up in imitation of the
Landed Wealth, but their vulgarity would always give them away. Just read the Jane Austen Novels to see just
how despised and held in contempt the Business Sector had been.
Apparently the Nascent Capitalists thought to turn the Curse
of their coarseness and ignorance into a
Blessing. The Business Classes could
fluently speak the language of the Ignorant, and the Aristocracy back then was
still then much too proud to adapt by dumbing down as they would do today. So,
yes, back then when our Betters were still openly haughty and proud about it,
the Capitalists were able to enjoy an early lead in corralling the vote of the
gullible Working Classes. We would see
how important this dynamic was in the establishment of the Human Rights, where
basically the idea of Freedom of Speech meant the freedom for the Business
Class to publish newspapers and political tracks with which they could
manipulate the marginally educated.
(14)There was another reason why the Business Classes didn't
have to worry over much in regards to Property Qualification in Voting, you
know, that the Poor would rise up and vote as a block to take away their
factories. The reason for this is that
it was soon found that the Politics of
Democracy would become contests between Political Parties, and that these
Parties would be like private clubs with their membership being restricted.
While there was no property qualification for voting, it was the exact
opposite in regards to having influence in the Political Parties where money was of primary importance. Staff must be hired and offices leased for
desk space and filing cabinets. The
Calculus involved in hitting exactly 51% of the Vote in order to maximize gains
and minimize liabilities requires a great many clerks and consultants running
around doing all that figuring and they all needed to be paid. Marginally educated Workers could not do
this kind of calculating for themselves, and they didn't have the money to pay
for it to be done for them.
(15) But, yes, even without their own Party, as Universal
Suffrage became more of a thing, the Workers clout at the voting booths would
give them more and more leverage. You
can imagine how the Political Parties must have seen this. It would have appeared to them as
opportunistic parasitic freeloading, with the Workers trying to hijack
elections they weren't paying their fair share for. Again, the whole point of Democracy, as it was
practically understood, is to derive
benefits while shifting the costs, and so the Working Vote was always considered
prohibitively expensive. Again, despite
what everybody SAYS the truth is that actually nobody really wants to win with
Great Landslide Majorities, even if they would brag about them, because it is
important to have a lot of Losers because it is the Losers who are expected to
Pay all the Bills. In a Democracy where
everybody Wins, nobody Wins.
(16) But, okay, if you absolutely had to pander to the poor
to get over that 51% hurdle, well, could there still be a way to not give them
anything for their vote, you know, to cheat them so they might not notice? Great minds would be tried in finding ways
to have the poor vote without regard to their financial interests. Up through the 19th Century the University
Departments of Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, and Cultural History were
still in their infancy and so the politicians really did see Political Will
almost entirely in terms of financial self interest and Class Interest. We can see how dated is the thinking
of many modern Leftists when we hear the way they still think "Class"
is so central, parroting their idol Marx who was only ignorant because he came
before all the New Disciplines flourished up in our Universities. But our Modern Leftists are ignorant because
they chose to actively ignore all the current state of the art scientifically
derived Understandings of the Universe and our Human Condition.
(17)But, yes, the
20th Century brought New Knowledge and New Knowledge brought New Power. the Working Class would lose much of its economic leverage in terms of Economic Self
Interest because it would be found that the Poor and Marginally Educated could
be persuaded to surrender their votes for a variety of other far less expensive
causes. Yes, the Great Unwashed Poor were in fact Human Beings and Human Beings
really not much better than Animals and the less educated they were, the less
religious they were, and the less well read they were, well, all of that would
be putting them closer and closer to the Hobbsian Pure State of Nature,
wouldn't it? Well, what could Political
Operatives do to manipulate men in this Natural State? That is a question that opened up a veritable
Pandora's Box.
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