Let's be honest about hyperbolic hand-wringing for the sake of democracy the people must speak! Because no one who votes for their coin is speaking "for the sake of democracy". Because a vote "for the sake of the economy" is not a vote for the sake of participation in governance.
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To put it plainly:
if you believe governance is you do what you want and to hell with everybody but you, that is, self-rule that declares your self, including your economic self-interest, above all other interests, your "participation in governance" is your declaration of self-rule.
As in:
long live self-rule bless us all!
When Democracy for Coin
When the people speak for "the economy", how often is this shorthand for their coin, duh, their coin? Making it. Keeping it. Not giving it up.
Such that when the people speak for "the economy", how often is this shorthand for laissez faire, duh, laissez faire?
As if the ultimate democracy is no rule but self-rule.
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Hah.
Self-rule hostages us to individual responsibility.
As in:
safe placements for children removed from familial care, accident-free warehouses and factories, meat and produce and water to eat and drink without poison and disease, and so on, that exist not because self-regulation and nonintervention guarantee decency.
Please.
When self-rule speaks for economic self-importance at the expense of decency towards children, workers, and consumers, what is the "governance" you believe in, if not indifference ruled by self-indulgence?
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As though:
"individual responsibility" is sacred. As it papers over your want is your right and the devil be damned like this too is inviolate. As harmless as the devil may care.
What are a few children, workers, and consumers - okay a few hundred children, workers, and consumers - okay a few thousand children, workers, and consumers - before your millions strong harks of long live self-rule bless us all?
Translation:
protecting anybody at the expense of self-rule that speaks for economic self-importance is [fill in the blank].
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Self-rule declares "individual responsibility" the only governance it abides; wherein "responsibility" starts and stops with: your self, including your economic self-interest, is your polestar.
As for millions strong children, workers, consumers, and so on?
Hah.
When such polestar is liberated of any obligation but your self: (1) life is every individual for every individual's self and (2) in the crosshairs of indifference ruled by self-indulgence, "the people" and "the common good".
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No.
A vote for such governance is no triumph.
It is, however, a vote for what you believe in and what you speak for:
you, amen.
Epilogue
Unless all of us altogether defend democracies worth saving -
democracies of "the people" and "the common good", by "the people" and "the common good", and for "the people" and "the common good" -
our vote for no rule but self-rule shall stand the world over
as our indifference ruled by self-indulgence and our economic self-importance at the expense of decency -
writ large.
M
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Note
When Democracy for Coin continues as follows
When Democracy for Coin Is a Vote of a People that Speaks Such Will - Such Vote for Indifference to Decency as a Guiding Principle of Laissez Faire that Liberates a Government of a Democracy, a Republic, and a Nation of Its Duty to Govern, of Its Responsibility to the People, and of Its Obligation to the Common Good - Is No Triumph.
M
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Author's Note
Theories of hydrogenated hot air excited by sham piety and fire-breathing invention roused to rabid combustion by frauds impersonating integrity and populism -
in other words,
legitimacy, as bankrupt and as trustworthy as rot, desolating and defacing any one good that gives a shit -
is not what I believe in and what I speak for, amen.
M
