Representative Government

The Last Big Lie

Representative government isn't really possible.

Nobody can ever represent you, because you are far too unique and changeable. Your feelings, interests, and opinions change almost daily, and certainly via the passage of time, your material interests shift as well. Absent a continuous stream of communication detailing your exact needs and wishes no deputy can honestly and reliably act as your agent in any state legislature nor in Congress nor in Parliament.

At best, some of those elected make a good faith effort to represent the needs and best interests of the people who elected them. Most of those pretending to represent their states and their constituents couldn't give a fig about either one.

As a result of being both materially impossible and unenforceable as a practical matter, representative government doesn't work and it never has worked. It's another obvious fraud scheme devised as a means to give people the illusion of power, while in fact buying them off so that only a few individuals exercise any control — and they can then be bought off in turn.

That is precisely what has happened throughout the history of “representative government” and it is a large part of the problem we are facing today. Shining a search light on the cockroaches in Congress may serve the halcyon purpose of deterring them from doing evil, but very little can be invoked to encourage them to do good.

Even among those who earnestly wish to do what is right, there are severe limitations in terms of ability, education, and intellect that moderate against the accomplishment of many obvious and supremely desirable goals.

For example, Ron Paul has stood virtually alone in calling for an end to the whole Federal Reserve System, which should be as obvious as calling for the ouster of a fox from a hen house. Notice that half the remaining members of Congress were in on the supply of readily available chicken thighs and breast meat, while the other half lacked the gumption, courage, and intelligence to stand with Dr. Paul.

This is “representative government” in action. It doesn't work in reality, because it is never possible to recruit people with the requisite mindset, purity, and dedication. Instead, any nexus of power relentlessly attracts idiots and psychopaths bent on self-aggrandizement and petty self-interest.