By: Judge Andrew Napolitano
What if you were allowed to vote only because it didn’t make a difference? What if no matter how you voted the elites always got their way? What if the concept of one person/one vote was just a fiction created by the government to induce your compliance?
What if democracy as it has come to exist in America today is dangerous to personal freedom? What if our so-called democracy erodes the people’s understanding of natural rights and the reasons for government and instead turns political campaigns into beauty contests? What if American democracy allows the government to do anything it wants, as long as more people bother to show up at the voting booth to support the government than show up to say no?
What if democracy as it has come to exist in America today is dangerous to personal freedom?
What if the purpose of contemporary democracy has been to convince people that they could prosper not through the voluntary creation of wealth but through theft from others? What if the only moral way to acquire wealth is through voluntary economic activity? What if the government persuaded the people that they could acquire wealth through political activity? What if economic activity includes all the productive and peaceful things we voluntarily do? What if political activity includes all the parasitical and destructive things the government does? What if the government has never created wealth? What if everything the government owns it has stolen?
What if governments were originally established to protect people’s freedoms but always turn into political and imperialist enterprises that seek to expand their power, increase their territory and heighten their control of the population? What if the idea that we need a government to take care of us is a fiction perpetrated to increase the size of government? What if our strength as individuals and durability as a culture are contingent not on the strength of the government but on the amount of freedom we have from the government?
What if the fatal cocktail of big government and democracy ultimately produces dependency? What if so-called democratic government, once it grows to a certain size, begins to soften and weaken the people? What if big government destroys people’s motivations and democracy convinces them that the only motivation they need is to vote and go along with the results?
What if Congress isn’t actually as democratic as it appears? What if congressional elections don’t square with congressional legislation because the polls aren’t what counts, but what counts are the secret meetings that come after the voting? What if the monster Joe Stalin was right when he said the most powerful person in the world is the guy who counts the votes? What if the vote counting that really counts takes place in secret? What if that’s how we lost our republic?
What if the problem with democracy is that the majority thinks it can right any wrong, write any law, tax any event, regulate any behavior and acquire any thing it wants? What if the greatest tyrant in history lives among us? What if that tyrant always gets its way, no matter what the laws are or what the Constitution says? What if that tyrant is the majority of voters? What if the majority in a democracy recognizes no limits on its power?
What if the government misinforms voters so they will justify anything the government wants to do? What if the government bribes people with the money it prints? What if it gives entitlements to the poor and tax breaks to the middle class and bailouts to the rich just to keep everyone dependent on it? What if a vibrant republic requires not just the democratic process of voting, but also informed and engaged voters who understand first principles of human existence, including the divine origin and inalienable individual possession of natural rights?
What if we could free ourselves from the yoke of big government through a return to first principles? What if the establishment doesn’t want this? What if the government remains the same no matter who wins elections? What if we have only one political party — the Big Government Party — and it has a Democratic wing and a Republican wing? What if both wings want war and taxes and welfare and perpetual government growth, but offer only slightly different menus on how to achieve them? What if the Big Government Party enacted laws to make it impossible for meaningful political competition to thrive?
What if the late progressive Edmund S. Morgan was right when he said that government depends on make believe? What if our ancestors made believe that the king was divine? What if they made believe that he could do no wrong? What if they made believe that the voice of the king was the voice of God?
What if the government believes in make believe? What if it made believe that the people have a voice? What if it made believe that the representatives of the people are the people? What if it made believe that the governors are the servants of the people? What if it made believe that all men are created equal, or that they are not?
What if the government made believe that it is always right? What if it made believe that the majority can do no wrong? What if the tyranny of the majority is as destructive to human freedom as the tyranny of a madman? What if the government knows this?
What do we do about it?
What if a certain judge just asks questions but offers no solution?
TJF – what a dumb fucking comment.
This is the best synopsis of our current situation. All of Napolitano’s “what if’s” is what has happened. People with ‘conservative opinions’ (common sense), are labeled ‘obstructionest’ cause they won’t go along with more and more taxes / spending / war / you name it.
There is no way to gracefully unwind from where we are. That’s why everyone (who knows anything) is speculating and waiting for the ultimate collapse caused by all the lies.
Exactly, we are at end game. There is no politically viable or easy way out, there are no solutions.
Count on the majority of people to vote for more of the same, things will progressively worsen, people will panic, federal government will continue to posture they have a clue on how to solve the very problems they created.
Collapse.
What collapse will bring is anybody’s nightmare.
Thanks Dutchman, I’m glad you were able to appreciate my sense of humor….oh wait, you completely missed it.
What do you mean, “if”?
What if Dutchman doesn’t get my jokes? What if my jokes are not funny?
Great, a new moron in our mist.
The Judge nails it again. People have been fooled into thinking we are a democracy. Democracy is one of the most dangerous forms of government, especially with a dumbed down populace, such as ours. Two wolves & a sheep…
TJF that last comment was kinda funny, but stop messing with the doom. We like our doom left alone here. Besides the judge is usually on point.
What if I wrote a dozen paragraphs of what-ifs?
What if stupid really can’t be fixed?
What if we stopped using their fiat currency? What if we stopped obeying and complying?
What if we stopped being afraid of the consequences of our disobedience and started being afraid of the consequences of inaction?
What if we stood up and acted instead of sitting and whining to each other about how powerless we are?
What if people tried to answer these questions instead of waiting to be told?
Any astute, even amateur Historian, will, after a certain period of time, discover that the entire political system in the United States has been HIJACKED, by the powerful financial interests on Wall St. The Banks that comprise the so-called “Federal” “Reserve” System, subsidiaries of JewK (UK), and EJew (EU) Banks, have bought, and paid for, the U.S. Congress, largely via Israel, a creation in 1948, of the Rothschilds, and Affiliated International Central Banking Families, primarily in the ‘City’ of London – London’s Financial District, but also elsewhere in the “EU” (Frankfurt, Paris, Vienna, Naples, etc.)
Obama was Rothschilds’ Choice in 2008/2012. The Rothschilds were one of several principal financial families BEHIND King George III, during the American War for Independence, who would not allow the American Colonies to have their own “scrip” (ie, currency). That was the main reason for the War for Independence, according to Ben Franklin. The Rothschilds managed to get their first bank installed in the U.S. from 1791 to 1811. When it’s charter was not renewed, we had YET ANOTHER war with Britain – the War of 1812. The Rothschilds had their second bank in the U.S. from 1816 to 1836. President Andrew Jackson refused to renew it’s charter. An assassination attempt on his life ensued, by a man with known ties to International Financiers. Rothschilds offered a loan to President Lincoln, during the Civil War, at 30 percent interest! President Lincoln instead printed “greenbacks”, with no interest attached, via the U.S. Treasury, as per the U.S. Constitution. Alas, we all know what fate awaited President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater. In December, 1913, the Rothschilds had their third bank established in the U.S., with the passage of the so-called “Federal” “Reserve” Act. We’ve been living under Rothschild (and Associated International Central Banking Families) rule, for over 100 years now. Rothschilds created Israel in 1948. Israel controls U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East. (That’s eerily tantamount to saying the Rothschilds, and Affiliated International Central Banking Families control U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East. And, it is. That is exactly what I am saying).
A much deeper investigation into European History, shows, that it was VENETIAN (“Jews”) Merchants/Bankers, who infiltrated and took control over England, by the time of Shakespeare. (Source: AGAINST OLIGARCHY, by Webster Tarpley: http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/). Hence, Shakespeare’s play THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, and Christopher Marlowe’s play THE JEW OF MALTA (which, reportedly, as an “aside” was likely the reason he was killed). Of course, Shakespeare’s era we can fix at 1600 AD, as a reference point. Earlier, in 1540 AD, a Marrano “Jew” named Ignatius Loyola, with the assistance of a Venetian man named (Cardinal) Gasparo Contarini, established the “Society of Jesus” or Jesuits, with fellow Marrano “Jews”. The Cardinal (Contarini) was most helpful, in getting an audience for Loyola, with the Pope. Most people are unaware, particularly in America, of this “Jew”-ish influence, in the Jesuit Order. In 1717, it was these same Venetian (“Jew”-ish) Financial Interests, in the ‘City’ of London, along with English Nobles, AND Jesuits (“Rosicrucians”) who created MODERN Freemasonry. In 1815, as Napoleon was losing the Battle of Waterloo, Nathan Rothschild was informed before anyone else in England, by private courier. Standing, in what was his customary place, with his back to his customary pillar, in the London Stock Exchange, he grimly gave the order to SELL – everything, to his agents in the Exchange. Of course, everyone in the exchange knew Rothschild had received the news from Waterloo. They assumed, that since Rothschild had given the order to SELL, that Napoleon had WON the Battle at Waterloo. As a result, the London Stock Exchange crashed. And, when it did, Nathan Rothschild quietly gave his agents the order to BUY – EVERYTHING – for “pennies-on-the-dollar”. In this manner, Nathan Rothschild took control of the London Stock Exchange, in 1815. (In more recent times, the Rothschild fortune has been calculated, including Real Estate holdings, to be in the $500 Trillion range. Only their agents in America, the Rockefellers, are known to have holdings in the TRILLIONS). Yet, their bought-and-paid-for Main Stream Media LIES to you, and tells you that Carlos Slim, Warren Buffet, and Bill Gates are the “richest men in the world”. What utter RUBBISH.
If you wish to know more, about the Rothschilds, I highly recommend, that you read a book entitled: THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN, by Andrew Carrington Hitchcock. Also, if you wish to know how it is, that the 1% International Central Bankers finance BOTH the “Left” AND the “Right” in American Polytricks, read NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY, by Gary Allen. Also, for further information along these lines, you would do well to read ALL comments in the ‘comments’ section following this article: Mayor Rahm Emanuel to Ban Gun Shops from 99.5% of Chicago, Videotape All Sales: http://sgtreport.com/2014/06/296012/
Also, for further learning, I highly recommend you view the following:
Obama Aims To Replace American Dream With Socialist Utopia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xDCb50nQmQ#t=101
Caravan To Midnight – Episode 95 Film Maker Joel Gilbert
(Joel Gilbert talks about his new film THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE UTOPIA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCxPn66Y-Aw
Tags: Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky, Frank Marshall Davis, Barack Obama – Chicago COMMUNISTS
Also, I highly recommend, that you view the following;
Catherine Austin Fitts – The Looting Of America – Alex Jones FULL Episode
You see, the last of the “Baby Boomers” (born 1946 to 1964) will turn 50 THIS YEAR, in 2014, which means that the last of the “Baby Boomers” will reach the traditional “retirement” age of 65, in 2029. Fifteen years from now. This represents a HUGE demographic shift in America. Who, will pay into the Social Security system, for example, to support all these retirees? Well, (all these retirees paid into the Social Security system, and) the 1%, and their bought-and-paid-for Congress, saw the demographic shift coming, and in late 2008, they deliberately took advantage of the “Housing Crisis”, which they created, and skimmed $40 TRILLION off the top of the U.S. Economy, in the “No-Banker-Left-Behind” Bailouts, which Obama signed off on. “They” weren’t going to let a good crisis go to waste, nor were they going to allow a HUGE demographic shift get in the way of their PROFITS. $40 TRILLION, America, $40 TRILLION. Stolen, from you, and future generations of Americans. It makes NO DIFFERENCE, whether you are a “democrat” or a “republican” – the International Bankers finance BOTH SIDES. “They” backed G.W. Bush (Republican), and they backed Obama (Democrat). “They” backed Bill Clinton (Democrat), and they backed G.H.W. Bush (Republican). Re-read all of the above – if you don’t quite “get it” yet, give it some time – eventually, you will. It’s ALL CONNECTED FOLKS! Once you understand the foregoing, you’ll understand the steady deterioration of America, from an average American’s point of view – and you’ll begin to make sense of all the REAL news, offered by the ALTERNATIVE MEDIA!
Here’s where you can find the REAL news:
1) SGT Report (http://www.sgtreport.com)
2) INFO WARS (http://www.infowars.com)
3) What Really Happened (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com)
4) Natural News (http://www.naturalnews.com)
Of course, there are many other sites without the Mainstream Media SPIN, on the Net, but, the above 4 sites have been consistent in reporting the TRUTH, instead of the LIES.
5) Cultural Marxism defined: http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism