Ritualistic psychosocial torture posing as election ̶d̶a̶y̶,̶ ̶w̶e̶e̶k̶, month, is here again.
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Two reasons I don't vote: first of all, it's meaningless. This country was bought and sold and paid for a long time ago. The shit they shuffle around every four years doesn't mean a fuckin' thing. And secondly, I don't vote 'cause I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain.
— George Carlin (1996)
Few ever want to admit the systems all around them want them enslaved. How can they ever liberate themselves if they don't acknowledge their chains?
That's the first way Globopsycho keeps those chains firmly latched to the masses — denial.
The second way is hopium.
The topic of elections and performative theatre of party politics are generally avoided around here like genetic poisonous injections posing as medicine, but today an exception will be made.
It's that season again. Polls and pols. Trolls and slaves. Hope and gossip. Midnight ballot dumps and verticle blue lines that say, "Yeah, we're cheating, what the hell are you gonna do about it?"
Did I say blind hope?
"I donated to so-and-so's campaign! He's going to save us!"All the enslaved minds vet candidate reliability based on words. Speculating if this or that candidate will betray them if they take the time to mark a piece of paper or computer with their name on it. A piece of paper with a vote that could never be thrown out later by regime party apparatchiks or deleted from a computer database.
Voting in non-democracies posing as such is always a kind of masochistic ritual adored by Stockholm Syndrome sufferers and the army of normies who love their chains.
When people feel powerless, Globopsycho permits "democracy" and the distractive spectacle of elections as a temporary calamine lotion to feel less powerless. Scratch that itch in the voting booth, and you'll feel better about things.
Some are in it for the pageantry and theatre, others for the tribal camaraderie and blindfolded adherence to party orthodoxies.
A large percentage will never give up believing the one thing that Globopsycho needs as many people to believe as possible, that this time things will be different.
Comment: Once again Israel is usurping a Palestinian asset.