Kevin Simler

"History is full of democratic Davids beating autocratic Goliaths." — The Dictator's Handbook

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason." — J. P. Morgan

1/ The “love of freedom” is *maybe* applicable to the population itself - and usually not as many as you’d think. Polls have shown some demographics are 70 percent in favour of curbing the right to free speech, for example. The leaders don’t “love freedom” though!

2/ The leaders allow freedom that either doesn’t threaten them or they don’t have the means to stop. FISA courts, unlawful surveillance, asset forfeiture, over charging for plea deals, shooting of unarmed suspects, and the list goes on.

3/ “Democracy” doesn’t magically protect you from these things. In fact it masks the real underlying nature of things. As Lenin put it, politics is all about the question of who, whom? “Who will control whom?” Who will benefit from the order.

4/ In a democracy the leaders will consolidate power to themselves and they rule us as subjects not as equal citizens. Yes, the selection of the elected officials is by vote. But what does this really mean? A pool of possibly hostile and manifestly unqualified people choose.

5/ As if all this wasn’t bad enough the bureaucracy is a constant to who much is delegated and in truth they can be more powerful than congress. They can even slow down the President.