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arthur brogard's avatar

There's the error: in your title: 'how our so called leaders rule'. Are they leading or ruling? Should be neither, shouldn't it? We are democracies. WE rule. WE lead. That's the theory.

But you're right. In fact we don't. We abdicate our democracies and supinely accept the role of powerless peasants with no alternative when push comes to shove but to take to the streets.

And we call - you yourself call - the people we put there to lead us in the direction we told them we want to go 'rulers' and we accept their 'rule'.

So when they say we must go some other direction we meekly accept it.

WE, the people, en masse.

For we the people, en masse, are by nature and instinct and desire, it would appear, mindless docile peasants.

And those of us who fancy we are not like that are just going to have to get used to the idea that's who we are part of, implanted within, surrounded by.

Got to come to terms with the fact that we're just lemmings implanted within the horde and the horde is headed over a cliff and going to take us with it.

Right?

And all the time the control machinery of democracy lies unused.

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Stephen Simac's avatar

It is not a new religion, although we are witnessing its triumphal procession into the Cathedral of the Medical Monopoly.

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