Is the West Democratic? Has the West Ever Been Democratic?

“Everything is a threat to our democracy,” says the evening news. But the democracy the news refers to is one that rules the people, not one that lets the people rule. The very notion of democracy, of course, is a sham. A democracy only works if the citizenry is capable of thinking for itself, of informing itself, of figuring out what is or isn’t true based on personal observation.

This has never been the case. Most people are neither curious enough nor intelligent enough to make sense of the world outside their homes. It is a ‘cope’ to think the modern democratic process can somehow channel the desires of millions of people with IQs hovering around the average of 100 and turn that energy into outcomes that guarantee the survival and wellbeing of the population.

In reality, what happens is more akin to the following: Every four years, an uninformed, almost slavishly obedient populace votes for their favorite scripted actor pretending to be a politician, controlled by the nation’s wealthy families that determine economic policy behind closed doors. These wealthy families regard their electorates as cattle they can either milk or tax.

But wealthy families aren’t necessarily smart. They simply have no scruples. Their only skill is that they have figured out how to stay in power (since their wealth is inherited). They stay in power by making you believe they are powerful and deserving of power and wealth. Considering the rest of the population is too obedient to dare to question power, the powerful get to consolidate a dynasty.

In the end, the measure of what is or isn’t a democracy has little to do with the act of voting but with the way employers treat their employees and, subsequently, the way parents treat their children. By this measure, no Western nation today is a democracy. They’re all psychological dictatorships-psychological in the sense that the dictatorship is real but hidden from the public.

This system of psychological dictatorship works so well because a large portion of the citizenry doesn’t possess the cognitive ability to think for themselves, anyway. Most people simply can’t figure out on their own what is sane policy based on scientific experiments and what is obscure government ideology based on pseudo-science.

Then again, most scientists also aren’t smart enough to do science properly, and they start with the conclusion in mind a priori in order to advance their careers.