Democracy! God help us – stage 2 speech

Democracy! God help us!

George Bush, Dick Chaney and The Grand Old Party would have us believe that the cure to all the evils of the world lies in the democratic system.

Balderdash. Nonsense. Rubbish.

Humanity is simply too complex an animal for democracy to serve any purpose other than the aggrandisement of the rich and powerful.

Life today is too complex for democracy. It was invented, the yanks would have us believe, by a bunch of backwoodsmen, farmers and fortune hunters who left Europe to make money by stealing land from the native Americans. Nothing has changed really.

Democracy is a simple system for simple minds.Lets face it – the minds of men.

One man, one vote. Nothing too complicated about that. But far too simplistic a system to serve the complex, emotionally intelligent, multi-tasking, female mind.

For men, complex ideas have to be reduced to simple, clichéd and jingoistic slogans in order to be able to vote on them.

Complex ideas are reduced to simplistic phrases and statements, voted on by walking into one of only two rooms, on the lead of a whip, just in case they forget where they are going.

The early democrats solution to complexity was to elect a representative. And whom did they represent: the rich and idle, that’s who.

Those who could afford to leave their land and business to head for London, Paris or Philadelphia and spend their time making speeches. The connection between Toastmasters and politicians is not accidental. It is clearly in the TOAST.

Just as people were beginning to cop on to the crass stupidity of the democratic system, a series of masterstrokes were pulled to draw more poor souls into the web of deceit.

The simplicity of having only the idle rich, who held the power any way, vote was further complicated by letting all men over 21 vote. The frontal lobe doesn’t develop until about 25 years of age, so a complete brain does not seem to be required. Let’s face it, that’s why you make an X to vote in most elections.

Democracy groaned on under the weight of it own inadequacies, when the problem was doubled – by giving women the vote.

Not content with adding men whose brains had not fully developed they again made it worse by reducing the voting age still further to 18.

Now consideration is being given to allowing 16 year olds to vote. I have three teenagers. I listen to them every day. I already know what they think. It’s not safe.

Finally democracy created the party activist as its greatest injury to the collective intelligence of humanity. These wannabes have no morals, no beliefs, no values, no causes, no goal except one – to win that election.

Power for the sake of it, for the smell of it. To be on the winning side is all that counts and they will gladly prostitute themselves in the mistaken believe that winning an election gives them power.

The power is knowingly handed over to the party candidate or representative, who in turn hands it over to the party leader. By way of election, God help us.

Then it is given to the select few that make up the cabinet, who quickly realise that real power lies with that small section of the people called civil servants who are appointed by a system that specifically forbids canvassing of any kind.

And Why?

Because they know full well that the canvass runs the risk of putting the lunatics in charge of the asylum.

Remember it was democracy that gave us Hitler. It was the democratic west that sold Saddam the weapons that are now been used to such devastating effect in Iraq. Democracy gave us Haliburton and the multinational corporations that really rule the world.

It is democracy that has produced a winner takes all system that leaves division, sectional interest and disillusionment in its wake.