The Evils of Democracy

I have been thinking about our sad little referendum and I search myself for answers as to why the majority of people voted the way they did. There are the obvious reasons like fear and greed –but are the yes voters anymore greedy or fearful than the no voters? By their action most of them are. Then if one studies humanity there are clues to be spotted—and as previously highlighted in my blogs the whole damn thing really comes down to whatever ideology a person indulges in. There is a huge movement in the USA—it is neoliberal Christian and right wing—it is also racist and anti-poor. These people look on welfare recipients as spongers and lazy—their ethic is to be hard working and rich—they also frown upon sexuality outside of the narrow frame of pro-creation,they are anti-womens rights and they are distinctly- anti gay. These people have inherited the world and they are spreading their poison across the Atlantic Ocean to a polling booth near you. They are aided and abetted by right wing politicians here who spread their neoliberal muck for them—people like Lucinda Creighton, Leo Varadkar---and Simon Coveney to name but a few. Fianna Fail have them also as do the Labour Party with their recent converts like Joan Burton and Eamonn Gilmore. Of course all is done by stealth if you asked anyone voting yes last week about neo-liberalism they would look at you incredulously and ask 'neo-liberal who?' So all stays fine for the pushers of this ideology as people won’t run unless they see the tsunami coming. Neo-liberalism comes gift wrapped in the form of economic sense versus the cloud cuckoo land madness espoused by the left. Whatever about the role that Christianity plays here [perhaps that is best left for another day]—democracy plays a leading role in this. Democracy is feted by the neoliberals basically because they can control it completely—as they own the media and if you own the media you have complete control. The lies and misinformation spouted leading up to the referendum were noting short of scandalous. Also the amount of bribery and the instillation of fear on the electorate was hugely decisive in raising the yes vote. 'People have fought wars and died for the right to vote,' is a quote one hears quite often, this is more neo-liberal nonsense as many of these said people were so poor that they fought wars for their political masters and the prospect of money—they had no ideology outside of this. Democracy is corrupted by the neo-liberal agenda and if you own everything you can convince the majority of people that what is blatantly wrong is good for them. If I present an issue to six people in a room—who are ignorant and the only source of information they can have is through channels that I control—all six will vote my way so what is so great about that system? The neo-liberals have control over mighty armies also—and if they feel threatened they will use them—they are at present restoring democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan they are on their way to Iran—anywhere they can victimise non-whites and non Christians they will. I sometimes wonder about it all—the fast cars and the nice clothes-the hard workers who can afford all of these things—remember these are people who get out of their beds in the morning—I wonder do they think of the unemployed father or the unmarried mother who live in some of their ideologically created ghetto’s? I doubt it as they work so hard for what they have-and they want this to be allegorically announced to the world. I am certain that in one stage of evolution people celebrated the end to autocracy—and neoliberals will tell us of mass murder and present the whole image as dark and dangerous—but the amount of humans killed both directly and indirectly by neo-liberalism is incalculable,how great our democracy is for the small few that control it!