Dear Editor,
Having voted over the last 40 years…I was going to retire this year from this increasingly futile exercise.
However, a few weeks ago, one Saturday night, one of my riding’s candidates knocked on the door and introduced themselves.
I was impressed with the person and their weekend campaigning efforts, (but not necessarily their party), so I will vote “one” more time.
Having developed an interest in fact-based history versus propaganda, one sees major events are not isolated, but have major ripple effects which resonate from the past to the present onto the future.
One of these is the increasingly futile event called elections under the theoretical umbrella of representative democracy.
Let me explain. Throughout history, many nation states were governed by either some form of monarchy or religious hierarchy.
Then, some agents of change developed what is referred to as the “third way”or the “third wave,” which we often call democracy, promoting it as a means for the average citizens to become more empowered in how the nation state was run.
Third way transition examples would be the American Revolution and the French Revolution in the late 1700s.
While it (democracy) was a nice try, it has proven to be an illusory disaster.
One major flaw is the party system, which founders of democracy had originally advised against. In Canada, the governments of Pierre Elliot Trudeau proved what an abomination unchecked democracy can become. He centralized power, and devised the divide and conquer strategy of ethnic voting. Trudeau established a treacherous template that all succeeding governments have, at minimum, been forced to adopt in order to succeed.
When you vote, you are signing away accountability and have, in fact, endorsed a mob mentality.
The gullible voter buys the sweet lies of the candidates and does not accept the bitter, post-election truth.
Why participate in this charade when the game is fixed, the real agenda is predetermined in back rooms, and the outcome is often irrelevant?
H. L. Mencken articulates my sentiments with his quote, “It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favour of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”
R.A.Hoegler
Richmond
