The Very Latest Indictment of Democracy:

If Only We Could Burn Down Freedom’s Road

This essay originally appeared in Counter Currents. as that edition can be found here.

Recent events have steeled this author’s aversion and opposition to democracy.  Universal suffrage is a bad idea, to put it mildly, and there is no better proof than recent developments in the presidential campaign for Kamala Harris. In denouncing democracy (direct or indirect), this admonition from Robert Heinlein in Starship Troopers bears repeating.

“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”

Why in the world should anyone and everyone, by mere virtue of the fact that person is 18 or over and either born in the United States or a naturalized citizen have that authority over others?  Why is our civilization so lacking in the very faculty of discrimination, which discerns the brilliant from the stupid, the swift from the slow?

This week it was announced that Beyoncé is pledging some four million dollars and lending her entire catalog to the campaign of Kamala Harris. This on top of Taylor Swift and many other pariahs in American Unkultur. Some pundits warn this could secure enough of the Gen Z and millennial vote to make Kamala Harris a prohibitive favorite.

First and foremost, any culture or civilization that produces garbage like this, to say nothing of vulgar, gangsta rap music, is utterly beyond redemption.  Such considerations certainly repudiate quaint notions about American exceptionalism held by far too many.  In this way, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless America” and the sentiment it represents are only slightly less of a pariah.  Beyond that, people who like Beyoncé or Taylor Swift should not be entitled to make any decisions of import about anything.  A person whose vote is influenced or determined by such endorsements, unless such endorsement convinces that person to vote for the opposing candidate, should not be allowed to vote. Such a person has no right (or ought not have the right) to exercise the sort of political authority described by Heinlein—political authority over others, backed by state violence.

Gwen Walz waxes poetically about the whiff or burning tires from the St. George riots that her husband allowed to happen and even condoned.

In addition to this unsettling state of affairs about Beyoncé and others of her ilk, the Harris campaign announced the selection of Minnesota governor Tim Waltz as Vice President. He is the embodiment of self-hating white, particularly in view of his position on and comments about Black Lives Matter and the St. George riots which first erupted in Minneapolis. In a television interview, his wife, Gwen, talked about the smell of burning tires that emitted from the riots and how she chose to keep the windows open as long as possible, to get a nice whiff of the change that was in the air. In addition to that, one must consider his odious policies authorizing so-called transgender care on minors and other matters regarding the transgender menace.  As stated in “Leaping into Delusion, Death, and Personal Destruction,” transgender lunacy must not be tolerated at all, either for adults, children or minors. What these people stand for is brought in even sharper relief with this statement from Josh Shapiro lambasting the censoring of what books “our children read.”  These of course are the books in question.

Why should those rightly opposed to such evil, untenable beliefs continue to play this sordid charade where we are expected to enunciate our respect for the results of a democratically elected election? Why should we pretend that those people who choose such odious ideas and policies as their politics ought to be allowed to have a say at all? Every radical movement begins with hushed utterances and quiet whisperings in a café or salon (figurative, literal, or virtual). It is fine to understand and recognize that all of this is part of the ruling regime in power and that this regime is, alas, probably not going anywhere in the foreseeable future, but why must those rightly outraged by such despicable cretins—contemptible subhuman vermin, really—continue to give lip service to platitudes from high school civics class?

Democracy, that is universal suffrage, is leading Europe and the West to ruin. Cretins like this must not be allowed to exercise political authority over others.

When the republic was founded, the populace consisted of Anglo-American colonials, with some Dutch and Germans mixed in, peoples who are related racially and geographically to the British ancestry of the majority. The majority who descended from Britain or came from Britain directly had the tradition of the Magna Carta and English Common Law, important precursors to the Constitution. The importance of this set of conditions was of course enunciated in the 1790 Immigration Act, which was enacted before the Bill of Rights and was not included as a touchstone of the Constitution only by some sordid fit of cosmic fate, as the framers would surely have balked at this multicultural experiment that we are subject to in the modern world. The idea of a democratic republic worked because the populace was largely similar and most everyone shared the same goals, the same values, and to a large extent the same background.  There might have been some disagreement about the means involved to achieve fundamental, agreed upon ends, but most agreed on the ends to be achieved.  None of these conditions that were presupposed by the Framers apply today.

Even assuming that the idea of universal suffrage is somehow intrinsically good, America, since 1965, since the Hart-Celler act, is in flagrant and obvious contravention to the original intent of the democratic republic as envisioned by the Framers. The demographic changes attributed to the Hart-Celler act are of course compounded by the onerous regime of civil rights laws that have invalidated many personal freedoms, including right to free association.

Setting aside how basic, fundamental conditions presupposed by the Framers have long since been rendered null and void, people who choose Kamala Harris or the Democrat Party writ large, who let vapid, inane Hollywood celebrities or awful “musicians” like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, or “Megan Thee Stallion” influence or determine how they vote should not have a say, and, if the necessary means ever become available in the distant or not so distant future, must be made not to have such a say.  Voting is the exercise of political authority over others, backed by state violence. If Europe and the Occident are to ever recover from the existential perils we are faced with, the privilege to exercise such authority over others—that is, ultimately, state violence—must be awarded in a far more judicious manner than just citizenship and being 18 or over. It is entirely unclear how this will ever be feasible, if it will ever be feasible, but at some point dissidents need to come to this dark enlightenment. When, if at all ever possible, burn down freedom’s road, utterly and entirely.  The very idea of democracy is the enemy of the Sons and Daughters of Mother Europa. Anyone who doubts that is reminded that Beyoncé and Taylor Swift may well decide this election.