Regarding the Establishment's hysterical handling of Donald Trump — a comment about Democracy's workability limits

© 2016 Peter Free

 

10 August 2016

 

 

We see 'crazy' outside our closet, but not within

 

If you follow the Lamestream Media, you know how hard it has come down on Donald Trump for the stupidly nasty things he says. Admittedly, the man flaunts a thoughtless brain and callous heart.

 

We hear fewer and less emphatic words about Hillary Clinton's coddling of the Wealthy Elite at everyone else's expense. Nor does the Lamestream often address her enthusiasm for initiating destabilizing wars. Iraq and Libya come to mind.

 

Instead, waves of amplified anti-Donald hysteria obscure his opponent's darkish shape hiding in oligarchy's shadows. Secretary Clinton is so typical of 'who rules' that we do not see her carnivorous spots.

 

 

The moral? — Maybe democracy cannot work with 324 million people

 

How far the United States has fallen — with respect to implementing democracy's Social Contract — is reflected in the unattractive professional character of its two main 2016 presidential candidates:

 

Will you choose an erratically meandering, loose-minded devil?

 

Or a competently evil and strategizing one?

 

It is not this unattractive choice, so much, that disturbs me.

 

It is, instead, the decades of acquiescence that allowed avaricious and institutionally well-placed people to submerge us so deeply.

 

Hope for freedom and a just society are lost without an engaged, knowledgeable and at least mildly reasoning public.

 

Perhaps that's the glitch.

 

Maybe human beings in populous cultures are better suited to totalitarian structure. As opposed to freer ones, in which they have to think and act, so as to achieve or maintain what is arguably due them.

 

There appears to be a population limit beyond which representative democracy becomes unworkable. Abdication of political accountability-holding is easy to get away with in crowds. The herd free-rides itself into servitude.

 

So it seems, this summer of 2016.