Down with "Democracy"!

The fact that various plans have continued from one administration to the next just goes to show that there is no real difference between left wing or right wing, National or Labour. There is no difference, they are merely two different sides of the same "democratic" coin. What you have to look for is the person behind the coin.

It is not the aim of our modern democratic parliamentary systems to bring together an assembly of intelligent and well-informed representatives. Not at all. The aim rather is to bring together a group of "nonentities" who are dependent on others for their views and who can be all the more easily led. By this method alone it is possible for the wirepuller, who exercises the real control, to remain in the dark, so that personally he can never be brought to account for his actions. For under such circumstances none of the decisions taken, no matter how disastrous they may turn out for the nation as a whole, can be laid at the door of the individuals whom everybody knows to be the evil genius responsible for the whole affair. All responsibility is shifted to the shoulders of the Party as a whole.

Furthermore, the crimes of democracies are rarely punished, as it is difficult to punish an entire voter bloc, so that democracies have far less practical disincentive to evil than any dictatorship whose dictator can be pinpointed for account. And when majority opinion – in itself already a socially persuasive force – is further given political authority, it acquires an illusion of moral rectitude, meaning that democracies can rarely be brought to even admit collective responsibility for evils they have perpetrated. Voters will at most blame the representative they themselves selected, while retaining unshakeable confidence in their collective ability to wisely select his replacement.

"Down with democracy!" I say.