9 out of 10 monkeys believe they are not behind glass

There are a couple things that I am scared of to death in this world. Deep water and forces larger than me. I guess they can almost be considered the same thing, so forces larger than me has to take the cake. Deep water is a big force and when you can’t see the bottom, I do believe that is the perfect time to panic.

The force-larger-than-me that scares me the most is the consensus of a group. When the consensus is wrong, horribly horribly wrong, or has been twisted by a very clever and cunning member of that group, I am always very worried. More often than not, I happen to be the member of the group that is in opposition to the popular opinion. If there are stormtroopers around, I am usually the rebellion sympathizer without a blaster or a plan.

This fear, be default, makes talking politics with my family a taboo subject. A veritable minefield of avoided topics which inevitably lead to quiet inquiries about the weather. My family is very politically minded, which is fine by me, as someone in this world should be politically minded. It is just that I am afraid that they are too focused on the existing system to understand the folly of the “great consensus”. The gathering of so many people on a subject that in the end, the lowest common denominator is what makes the choice.

Give America a small set of choices and the retards will be the ones that vote the most and make it appear the system actually works, if you know what I mean. But when the politicians with the most money can brainwash enough retards to vote enough times, democracy is not working. That is not representation. That is just scary in my opinion. Democracy is great, don’t get me wrong. I think the USA is the best country in almost every respect that has ever existed. Rome be damned.

But. (There had to be a but.)

Much like any system, governments require “corrections” every once in a while. The founding fathers understood this and hoped to make a system of checks and balances that would slowly or constantly enforce those changes. But the question needs to be asked if those corrections are occurring. The recent Democrat takeover would lead most people to believe that yes, things are indeed changing. But as most of us know, it really isn’t. Democrats and Republicans all belong to the same country clubs. They all have the same stock portfolios and they all believe in the same thing. What makes it seem like they don’t is that they split hairs over silly things. Things to divert attention, things to capture thought, things to shift away from the horrible fact that the US is slowly rotting from within. Things like who is sleeping with who’s intern and who voted for that war thing and who can be blamed for the budget overruns.

And my answer to all that?

Pick up a mirror.