Democracy’s Foundation
The obvious – and perhaps fatal – problem with democracy in our once United States of America is that the only prerequisite to voting is having circled the sun 18 times and marking an "x" on a registration form. There is no requirement that one be literate or sane. Certainly, obviously, there is no baseline intelligence threshold. My goodness, people can think whatever they want, or, as apparently is an epidemic condition, not think at all.
People can vote if they are obsessively stupid and utterly devoid of all reason. They can exercise their power of the ballot if they are rooting for the apocalypse, if they support the subjugation of women, or if they think torture is a noble tactic.
This rant is born of a fury based on – are you sitting down? – a fight with spam. Some machine, I presume, took my email address and is sending me junk mail every few minutes. It filled my inbox and real people, of the personal and professional type, were told they couldn’t contact me.
I spoke with Godaddy who directed me to my ISP, which is AT&T. Chloe-in-the-Philippines didn’t get the humor when I told her if they would find the perps I’d shoot ‘em down in the street. After a considerable period of investigating, she came up with an "abuse" address, and I began forwarding my insidious trash to it. For the moment the flow has slowed, but I don’t know that anyone has intervened, as this has been the pattern in the past.
The issue, in what’s left of my mind, is that America has no moral authority anymore, what with our obscene foreign policy of invading foreign countries, undermining democratic regimes and supporting multi-nationals in their exploitation of millions around the world. Thus, we can’t organize global action against pirates – in Somalia or on the Internet – as long as we’re committing such worse crimes.
And I put it all on those voters who have delivered us to evil.
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