A Data-Detailed Review of How Politicians Are Selected
And Why We Need to Stop Playing the Game
The Goal Of This Article Is To:
To demonstrate how elections are actually selections, how politicians can be selected by manipulating voting machines, and lastly, why we need to understand the reality of politics and stop upholding the illusion of choice that presidential elections present.
To do this, we’ll discuss the following topics:
Understanding the Political System: Describe how the political system really works and the behaviors behind politicians.
The Illusion of Heroic Politicians: Discuss how heroes are presented to us as politicians.
Breaking Free from the Illusion: Discuss what occurs when we break free from this illusion and what that looks like.
To truly understand our political system in today’s world, it’s crucial that we take a step back and comprehend how our world operates. In my journey towards unorthodoxy, I’ve come to realize that science and psychology are often used to control the population. This manipulation isn’t limited to one area; it permeates multiple facets of our lives, including politics.
A few years ago, Bernie Sanders emerged on the political scene as a candidate who almost swayed me to vote. However, the swift transition from Sanders to the Hillary vs. Trump narrative made me realize the powers that be. Now, we’re witnessing a similar scenario with Biden and Trump, with propaganda backing both candidates.
In my previous article, “Why We Don’t Need to Vote,” I discussed how voting merely shifts the responsibility of saving us onto someone else’s shoulders. As we navigate this election year, we see figures like RFK, who might be the modern-day Bernie Sanders, capable of drawing individuals out of retirement to vote and restore the illusion of change.
In my series “Seven Pillars of Life,” I’ve argued that there are only seven areas of life that we should be concerned about. Unfortunately, politics doesn’t fit into any of these areas. In fact, it serves as a distraction from them. As we enter what promises to be the craziest political year ever, filled with propaganda, technology, AI, and countless other distractions, we uphold the illusion that we can change our society.
The reality is that politicians, who are essentially individuals making laws that lobbyists have already given them, operate our society. While a few laws might benefit the population, the majority of these rules and policies favor the corporations that put the politicians in power. We all know this, yet we continue to play into the illusion.
As we awaken to this reality, we will start to see a decrease in political and presidential votes. People will stop paying attention to the illusion of voting, just as we have seen a decrease in vaccine rates. As more people wake up to the illusion of politics and the narcissism of politicians, we will slowly begin to see a shift in our reality.
Without further ado, I present to you the article by
on “Welcome to the Absurdian,” which provides a detailed view of how politics is nothing but an opportunity for you to provide your consent, i.e., your vote, and for them to warp it into their selected candidate.Thank you for your time, and please enjoy the read. Remember, no one is here to save you but yourself. It’s time to break free from the illusion.
Ashe.
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You talk about how voting is a means of pushing away our own responsibility, yet you also say to not vote because it doesn't make a difference anyway. Sounds like pushing responsibility to me.
I agree that a ballot can quickly become meaningless, and that its results can be completely made up, and that that is why democracy is so much more than voting, but I can also tell that your opinion comes from a rather limited perspective. You live in the United States and witness its barely functional take on democracy. Of course, you would feel like your vote makes no difference, because in the US, it really doesn't. The President has hardly any power to decide laws that actually affect the citizens, unless they decide to start a war.
Pretty much all laws that actually affect US citizens are ultimately decided by the governor of whatever state they live in. The US is, till this day, a loose patchwork of individual provinces where the only thing reigning supreme is libertarianism.
But it doesn't have to be that way. Many democratic nations have systems of government where the vote actually matters.
And ultimately, while you sound like an anarchist to me, your subtext of "Don't vote, the vote doesn't matter!" is (perhaps unintentional) autocratic propaganda. Because not voting means voting for extremists, oligarchs and other such tight cabals. Because it makes every vote that is cast more individually important, and political extremists always get the highest voter turnout from their camp. Even if that camp is small in comparison, their turnout means a higher percentage of the vote for them, essentially enabling them to do more with less.
Spreading frustration about seemingly ineffective democracy and making highly visible public projects after their power grab is also par for the course for autocrats, as it allows them to say "Look how little the democracy did for you! Now, we're actually getting stuff done!".
Yes, democracy by way of voting is an illusion.