CLN Editor: Listed here are a few of the key concepts within the article:

• The 2024 U.S. presidential election is a manufactured “pseudo-event” and a mockery of actual democracy
• Voters are given solely two nearly equivalent selections who serve highly effective elite pursuits, not the individuals
• Irrespective of who wins, the brand new president joins the entrenched “Deep State” of unelected bureaucrats and particular pursuits really controlling authorities
• Presidential elections merely present an phantasm of consultant democracy whereas sustaining an oligarchy serving the financial elite
• Voting alone is inadequate for actual reform – individuals should get organized, educated, and actively engaged in holding all ranges of presidency accountable
• Actual change requires considering nationally however appearing regionally, realizing one’s rights, and doing the onerous work of being an knowledgeable, concerned citizenry
• The system is rigged, so individuals should cease supporting it with votes and cash until politicians show reliable
• Individuals ought to flip off propaganda, untether from dependency, and begin flexing civic muscle mass to reclaim the republic

The Nice Election Fraud: Manufactured Decisions Make a Mockery of Our Republic

By John & Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute
March 05, 2024

“Dictators should not within the enterprise of permitting elections that might take away them from their thrones.”      — Gene Sharp, political science professor

The U.S. Supreme Court docket was proper to maintain President Trump’s title on the poll.

The excessive court docket’s decree that the facility to take away a federal candidate from the poll beneath the Structure’s “insurrectionist ban” rests with Congress, not the states, underscores the truth that in a consultant democracy, the citizenry—not the courts, not the companies, and never the contrived electoral schools—ought to be those to elect their representatives.

Sadly, what’s being staged just isn’t an election. It’s a mockery of an election.

This 12 months’s presidential election, very like each different election in recent times, is what historian Daniel Boorstin known as a “pseudo-event”: manufactured, contrived, confected and devoid of any intrinsic worth save the worth of being marketed.

For the following eight months, People shall be dope-fed billions of {dollars}’ price of political propaganda geared toward persuading them that 1) their votes depend, 2) the way forward for this nation—nay, our very lives—is determined by who we elect as president, and three) electing the correct candidate will repair every part that’s unsuitable with this nation.

Unbelievable, isn’t it, that in a rustic of greater than 330 million individuals, we’re given solely two selections for president?

The system is rigged, in fact.

Forcing the citizenry to decide on between two candidates who’re equally unfit for workplace doesn’t in any method translate to having some say in how the federal government is run.

Certainly, it doesn’t matter what names are on the presidential poll, when you step away from the cult of character politics, you’ll discover that beneath the facility fits, they’re all alike.

The candidate who wins the White Home has already made a Faustian discount to maintain the police state in energy.

We’ve been down this highway earlier than.

Barack Obama campaigned on a message of hope, change and transparency, and promised an finish to warfare and surveillance. But beneath Obama, authorities whistleblowers have been routinely prosecuted, U.S. arms gross sales skyrocketed, police militarization accelerated, and surveillance grew to become widespread.

Donald Trump swore to drain the swamp in Washington DC. As an alternative of placing an finish to the corruption, nevertheless, Trump paved the best way for lobbyists, firms, the army industrial advanced, and the Deep State to feast on the carcass of the dying American republic.

We’ve been mired on this swamp for many years now.

Joe Biden has been no totally different. If his job was to maintain the Deep State in energy, he’s been a powerful success.

Observe the cash.  It all the time factors the best way.

With every new president, we’ve been subjected to extra authorities surveillance, extra police abuse, extra SWAT staff raids, extra roadside strip searches, extra censorship, extra jail time, extra egregious legal guidelines, extra countless wars, extra invasive expertise, extra militarization, extra injustice, extra corruption, extra cronyism, extra graft, extra lies, and extra of every part that has turned the American dream into the American nightmare.

What we’re not getting extra of: elected officers who truly characterize us.

Irrespective of who wins the presidential election come November, it’s a certain guess that the losers would be the American individuals if all we’re ready to do is vote.

In any case, there may be extra to citizenship than the act of casting a poll for somebody who, as soon as elected, will march in lockstep with the dictates of the powers-that-be.

But so long as People are content material to let politicians, warfare hawks and Company America run the nation, the police state will prevail.

“Complete continuity” is how Chris Hedges refers back to the method during which the federal government’s agenda stays unchanged irrespective of who occupies the Govt Department. “Continuity of presidency” (COG) is the phrase coverage wonks use to seek advice from the unelected people who’ve been appointed to run the federal government within the occasion of a “disaster.”

You can even seek advice from it as a shadow authorities, or the Deep State, which is comprised of unelected authorities bureaucrats, firms, contractors, paper-pushers, and button-pushers who truly name the photographs behind the scenes.

No matter time period you utilize, the upshot stays the identical: on the nationwide degree, we’re up in opposition to an immoveable, intractable, entrenched pressure that’s better than anybody politician or get together, whose tentacles attain deep into each sector possible, from Wall Road, the army and the courts to the expertise giants, leisure, healthcare and the media.

That is no Goliath to be felled by a easy stone.

This can be a Leviathan disguised as a political savior.

So, what’s the resolution to this blatant show of imperial elitism disguising itself as a populist train in consultant authorities?

Cease enjoying the sport. Cease supporting the system. Cease defending the madness. Simply cease.

Washington thrives on cash, so cease giving them your cash. Cease throwing your hard-earned {dollars} away on politicians and Tremendous PACs who view you as nothing greater than a method to an finish. There are numerous worthy grassroots organizations and nonprofits—teams like The Rutherford Institute—working to handle actual wants like injustice, poverty, homelessness, and so on. Help them and also you’ll see change you actually can consider in in your personal yard.

Politicians depend upon votes, so cease giving them your vote until they’ve a confirmed monitor report of listening to their constituents, abiding by their needs and dealing onerous to earn and preserve their belief.

It’s comforting to consider that your vote issues, however presidents are chosen, not elected. Regardless of what’s taught in class and the propaganda that’s peddled by the media, a presidential election just isn’t a populist election for a consultant. Slightly, it’s a gathering of shareholders to pick out the following CEO, a truth strengthened by the nation’s archaic electoral school system. In different phrases, your vote doesn’t elect a president. Even if there are 218 million eligible voters on this nation (solely half of whom truly vote), it’s the electoral school, made up of 538 people handpicked by the candidates’ respective events, that truly selects the following president.

The one factor you’re engaging in by participating within the “reassurance ritual” of voting is sustaining the phantasm that we have now a democratic republic.

Really, we’re affected by what political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Web page extra precisely time period an “financial élite domination” during which the financial elite (lobbyists, firms, monied particular curiosity teams) dominate and dictate nationwide coverage.

No shock there.

As an in-depth Princeton College research confirms, democracy has been changed by oligarchy, a system of presidency during which elected officers characterize the pursuits of the wealthy and highly effective quite than the common citizen.

As such, presidential elections merely serve to take care of the established order. As soon as elected president, that particular person turns into a part of the dictatorial continuum that’s the American imperial presidency right now.

So how can we prevail in opposition to the tyrant who says all the correct issues and does none of them? How can we overcome the despot whose guarantees fade with the spotlights? How can we conquer the dictator whose benevolence is all for present?

We get organized. We get educated. We get lively.

Whether or not you vote or don’t vote doesn’t actually matter. What issues is what else you’re doing to push again in opposition to authorities incompetence, abuse, corruption, graft, fraud and cronyism.

Don’t be fooled into considering that the one highway to reform is thru the poll field.

Should you really feel led to vote, positive, but when all you do is vote, “we the individuals” are going to lose.

Should you abstain from voting and nonetheless do nothing, “we the individuals” are going to lose.

Should you give your proxy to some third-party particular person or group to repair what’s unsuitable with the nation and that’s all you do, then “we the individuals” are going to lose.

If, nevertheless, you’re ready to show off the tv, tune out the speaking heads, untether your self from no matter piece of expertise you’re affixed to, wean your self off the teat of the nanny state, and begin flexing these unused civic muscle mass, then there is perhaps hope for us all.

For starters, know your rights after which put that data into motion. What we desperately want is a concerted, collective dedication to the Structure’s ideas of restricted authorities, a system of checks and balances, and a recognition that they—the president, Congress, the courts, the army, the police, the technocrats and plutocrats and bureaucrats—reply to and are accountable to “we the individuals.”

Second, suppose nationally however act regionally. Perceive how your native authorities is structured. Who serves in your metropolis council and college boards? What recourse does the group must voice issues about native issues or disagree with choices by authorities officers? Are your regionally elected officers accessible and open to what it’s important to say? Are your police chiefs being appointed from inside your group? Who runs your native media? Does your newspaper report on native occasions? Who’re your judges?

Third, don’t cease doing the onerous work of holding your authorities accountable. Don’t let private politics and get together allegiances blind you to authorities misconduct and energy grabs. It will imply holding all three branches of presidency accountable to the Structure (i.e., vote them out of workplace in the event that they abuse their powers). And it’ll imply making the president play by the principles of the Structure.

Lastly, don’t stay silent within the face of presidency injustice, corruption, or ineptitude. Converse reality to energy.

A wholesome, consultant authorities is difficult work. It takes a citizenry that’s knowledgeable concerning the points, educated about how the federal government operates, and keen to make the sacrifices vital to remain concerned. It additionally takes a citizenry keen to do greater than grouse and complain.

We should act—and act responsibly.

As I clarify in my e-book Battlefield America: The Warfare on the American Individuals and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, any hope of restoring our freedoms and regaining management over our runaway authorities should begin from the underside up. And that can imply re-learning step by painful step what it truly means to be a authorities “of the individuals, by the individuals and for the individuals.”

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ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD

Constitutional lawyer and creator John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most up-to-date books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The Warfare on the American Individuals, the award-winning A Authorities of Wolves: The Rising American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead could be contacted at workers@rutherford.org. Nisha Whitehead is the Govt Director of The Rutherford Institute. Details about The Rutherford Institute is out there at www.rutherford.org.