{"id":145,"date":"2009-06-22T08:03:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-10-29T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T19:42:20","slug":"on-pretending-to-be-a-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2009\/06\/22\/on-pretending-to-be-a-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"On Pretending to be a Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.” –\u00a0Abraham Lincoln<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"phone.jpeg\"Iran with its unrest here in the June 2009 is learning a lesson that oppressive regieme seem to never learn, what those drunk on power never seem to grasp. If you are going to pretend to give people the right to vote and chose their own way, you cannot also treat them like complete sheep and idiots.<\/p>\n

People will accept their injustice, their oppression to a degree, but they will not accept a shell game. What do i mean?<\/p>\n

No Choice.<\/p>\n

Back in the Old Soviet union (and lots of dictatorships like Iraq) people were given the right to vote.\u00a0 There was one candidate and he generally won with 99% of the vote (and most of the population), even when most people stayed home.\u00a0 The election was a sham, everyone knew it, and that was the state of things, you went on with your life.<\/p>\n

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Choice<\/p>\n

In\u00a0 contrast, in Venezula they had a close election, In America 2000, and 2004 they had a close election.\u00a0 People were upset and they voiced it… and their countries and govenment still stand. Why…\u00a0 Many countries have had close elections, there is always talk of voter fraud and ballot fixing, but in actually democracies, the expectation matches that of what has been reported in the run up. Further more after one side loses, and there is obvious bitterness, it’s not that people don’t take to the streets and protest, its’ that the ruling powers acknowledge their protesting and basically ignores them, until they tire and go home.<\/p>\n

General Conclusion<\/p>\n

In a true democracy (right to vote, press freedom, right to assemble and speak), or let’s say a place where even if people don’t believe their guy lost,\u00a0 They demonstrate, They bitch and then, They move on, why? because they trust the eventually digging.\u00a0 Those who lost, and who think they should not have lost never stop seeking answers, questioning every machine, balot, they file every legal challenge and WE LET THEM!\u00a0 because, that way we let them exaust themselves.\u00a0 They are not following some fallacy either. If they found evidence they know it would be reported, the courts would listen, etc<\/p>\n

The Problem with Pretending.<\/p>\n

Those pretending to be a democracy always overreach.\u00a0 Instead, not only do they stack the vote but they also stack the vote into the unbelievable range.\u00a0 This is their crime or, real mistake.\u00a0 Then after some initial disturbances the ruling class feel so shaky, so not in control, they then crack down on the people.\u00a0 Often enough, this works –people like living after all.<\/p>\n

The cause of the disturbance is the same- overreaching.\u00a0 Whether or not the Voting in Iran was fixed two things have happened.\u00a0 a) the expectation of a close election was a landslide (over reach) and then, telling the people that protesting the result would have grave consequences. (over reach).<\/p>\n

The fix would have been simple. Let the people have the retally and then bring the counting in close with expectation, say 52\/48 and still declare your guy the winner. \u00a0 After all, those pretending usually have control of the media. It’s too late now anyway. The people are starting to figure out their are more of them, than the ruling class. This will only end in blood.<\/p>\n

In the end, Pretending you are a democracy is bad, or just works until fear grips the ruling class. Just admit you’re not, and people accept it because they understand it, they understand those rules.\u00a0 The rules are not going to change suddenly. \u00a0 The Mob does not like change they can’t anticipate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.” –\u00a0Abraham Lincoln Iran with its unrest here in the June 2009 is learning a lesson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[145,407,408,409],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blubs-of-verbs","category-life-lessons","tag-democracy","tag-fear","tag-iran","tag-vote"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}