Political Parties Destroy Democracy

April 9, 2013

Introduction

The one key feature in all SHAM democracies is the existence of political parties. The prevailing attitude of the majority of people is that the existence of political parties guarantees democracy; guarantees choice; guarantees the citizens will have the policies they want; guarantees free and fair elections.

This is one of the biggest errors regarding the understanding of democracy. This isn’t caused by propaganda for the simple reason that it is just something that everybody takes for granted. The time for taking things for granted as regards politics needs to STOP IMMEDIATELY. It is highly DANGEROUS and detrimental for the citizens to take the political system for granted – to presume that the present design of the political system is in the best interest of the citizens. This attitude has helped to sustain the dysfunctional political systems – these Sham Democracies (Feudal Democracies) – in place around the world. The real truth about the effect of political parties in so-called democracies is very very different. In fact, it is the exact OPPOSITE.

Political parties are a most dangerous threat to democracy.

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One of the biggest problems when investigating the reality of politics is bypassing the accepted presumptions which we all have, so I am starting with a scenario to try and make the situation as simple, neutral and clear as possible.

Scenario: The Island Nation

Imagine a small island with 100 citizens living on it. Each citizen has 1/100th of the political authority. Politically, each individual citizen is equal to any other individual citizen. When they vote for a specific proposal each citizen has the same ration of political power as the next citizen. This is democracy in action. The one flaw, if you want to call it that, is that everyone is voting for what is best for themselves most of the time, but that is human nature (a Constitution would prevent abuse).

Now imagine the case where a bully wants to gain the upper hand and forms an alliance with 9 other citizens who want to take over the running of the island or at least increase their chances of getting their own way. They call themselves the Red-Gang and sign a pact to cooperate with each other and to agree on voting policy before any proposal is voted on, and to give preference to fellow members if any of the members is appointed to a position of authority. By that action the stability, justice, equality and level of democracy in the political system has been destroyed.

Now, because the 10 members of the Red-Gang pool their political authority (equivalent to the party ‘whip’) any individual citizen NOT in the Red-Gang doesn’t have the same equal political power as a member of the Red-Gang. Also the leader of the Red-Gang now has, in effect, 10% of all the political power on the island. Democracy has ceased to exist on that island.

Political Parties Destroy The Power Of The Citizens

As soon as there is a concentration of political authority through the organisation of a vested interest group or political party, the quality of democracy is reduced for every citizen who is NOT a member of that group. In fact, the best description for a political party is, in essence, a conspiracy AGAINST the citizens, as it subsequently makes each individual citizen a minority.

There are some people reading this who will say that the other citizens can form their own vested interest group (gang or political party), but that only goes to show you are missing the point entirely. In a DEMOCRACY – each individual citizen – should not HAVE TO join a political party in order to have an equal say. Even then, logic would dictate that each political party would have to have the exact same number of members for there to be equality. So, the idea of more political parties improving the quality of democracy is very incorrect.

Negative Effects Which The Existence Of Political Parties Create

This is a short list with as little explanation as possible as I don’t want to make this blog too long. There is an expanded list on my web site Feudal Democracy – Chapter 4 – Political Parties but I must warn you that it is a long chapter but if you persevere and plough through it in full you will begin to understand just how corrupting the existence of political parties are within a (feudal-democratic) political system.

I only give a few examples here but each of you reading this will be able to find parallels in the political parties in your own Nation whether it be Ireland, the UK, the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus – in fact, EVERY Nation which has a feudal-democracy political system populated by political parties at its heart.

Political Parties Decrease The Quality Of Politician

Ask yourself this: what type of person joins a political party? Well, it depends on the political party. The Zanu party in Zimbabwe (the dictator Robert Mugabe’s party) will attract those who know that preference is given to its members and allows them to rape the Nation’s resources, to suck the blood of the Nation, to feed on the dying carcass of that Nation. That party will not attract any individual who has any interest in the Nation or its citizens. The whole purpose of the political party is to TAKE from the Nation by making the citizens powerless.

Likewise in Ireland where the most corrupt political party is the Fianna Fáil party. This political party which has twice bankrupted the Irish Nation only attracts those who know that when the party is in power it will look after the interests of its members to the detriment of the citizens of Ireland. This is the only reason for joining that political party – injustice against other citizens through cronyism, corruption, fraud, and insatiable greed.

Those who rise up within the political party are only allowed do so because they serve the party and the officials (the boys in the back room) within that party, with no consideration for the citizens at all. This has been proven time after time in so many countries around the world. Look at the quality of politicians in the UK, Ireland, USA, Italy, Australia, Spain, France, Greece etc. In most cases they are the corrupt, lying, cheating, and selfish lowlife of the Nation.

Most people will presume that political parties guarantee that only the best politicians rise within the political party structure thus ensuring that the Nation is lead by the best that the Nation can offer. This is totally and absolutely incorrect, and has proven to be so over many decades in ALL countries. Consider George W Bush – is he the best that the Nation could produce?

Who really rises within the political party structure? Is it the individual who has independent thoughts? Is it the individual who has independent policies? Of course not! It is the individual who wants an easy free ride into power via the stale and bland political uncontroversial attitude, desiring to be hidden in the pack with nothing to say, but always ready to bleat out the party message and with their eyes firmly set on the subsequent abuse of that power for their own benefit.

In Ireland, and most other countries, all too often politicians are elected merely on account of being a member of a political party which happened to be ‘on the rise’ – and unfortunately this makes sense as regards human nature, for citizens vote for the member of the ‘gang’ they have decided to temporarily place their faith in, though it is NOT politically rational, because those politicians have no individual policies, they are merely clones and cardboard cut-outs of the typical political party candidate.

An independent individual with their own ideas and thoughts and opinions would be very unwelcome in most political parties as they would ‘rock the boat’ and not ‘play by the rules’. But in a political party there is safety in numbers and a member of a political party doesn’t have to have any policies at all, they can just bleat out the party’s stance on any issue – like a trained parrot.

Good examples of how a political party can purposefully get rid of those in the party who actually are, to a threatening degree, independent thinkers, and who even may have the interests of the citizens in mind are: Ron Paul (Rep) and Dennis Kucinich (Dem) – both in the USA, and George Galloway (ex Labour, in the UK). (I am not endorsing any of them or their policies etc whatsoever).

Political Parties Increase The Power Of Those Unelected Individuals Who Run The Party

All political parties have the ‘boys in the back room’ – senior members of the party who dictate the behaviour of the political party. They, in fact, own the political party, and not only guide its future but also are the REAL power brokers for the party – the political machine. The power they have is uncontrolled by the citizens. In fact, the power these ‘boys in the backroom’ have has been stolen from the citizens – it is the power which the citizens themselves should have in a democracy.

Mant citizens fail to keep in mindall the time is that every political party has 2 faces. One is the public face which it uses to fool the citizens into believing that the sole goal of the party is for the benefit of the citizens. The second face is the private face which only the supporters and funders see which is the unpleasant side of the party. It is this side which does the deals with the funders, supporters and businesses which are looking for favours.

This is where the real ‘wheeling and dealing’ is done – FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PARTY and those who run the party. THIS is the real purpose of the political parties. They have the ability to promise anything as long as they are helped to get into power.

Political Parties Concentrate Political Power In The Leader Of The Party

The individual who is elected to be leader of the political party has political power which can be very strong and yet that level of power was never allocated to that individual by the citizens. It is merely a result of being the leader of that political party.

In Ireland, we saw how Charles J Haughey (in the 1980s) was able to have enormous un-democratic power – enough to create a political and financial web of corruption around Ireland. The level of power he held was akin to what a feudal lord would have had in the past. He was untouchable.

In cases where a political party requires the cooperation of either a minority political party, or a few successful independent candidates, in order to form a government after an election, the leader of the main political party has the ability to promise anything – even money from the citizens’ pockets (Public Funds).

On one occasion, in Ireland 2001, the leader of the main political party (Bertie Ahern) bribed independent politicians with an extra FORTY THOUSAND EURO PER YEAR which they did not have to account for and all they had to do for this ‘easy money’ was to vote to make him the Prime Minister. He openly used the citizens’ money to promote himself. This was the level of power he had, merely because he was the leader of a political party. The citizens of Ireland, as in other countries, take this type of political ‘negotiations’ for granted, so much so that I feel I have to repeat the truth of the situation – he used OUR Public Funds to bribe members of the Parliament so HE could get promoted to the position of Prime Minister. That is an obscenity in a ‘democracy’.

In fact, since then, ALL independent politicians when elected to the Irish Parliament still (12 years later) get that forty thousand euro every year while they are in office. So a decision by the leader of a political party about 12 years ago, for his own benefit – HIS promotion, is STILL costing the citizens money every year. He has retired now and is receiving an enormous pension – from Public Funds.

This misuse of political power is most certainly not confined only to Ireland. Political parties in Britain have needed support from minority politicians and the leader can promise anything required to make sure the party gets into Government. Italy is renowned for its chaotic minority governments. We have seen the same thing in Israel where Netanyahu has made deals in order to remain the leader in Government. In the past he made deals with the ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties – at the cost to the citizens. In Australia, Germany and other countries the Greens have been able to gain from being a ‘junior’ partner in government and can end up dictating policies which the citizens never voted for.

These political party leaders, in effect, OWN the political system and OWN the Public Funds (for they know that as soon as they are voted as Government leader – Prime Minister, they can raid the Public Funds for their own promotion and political bribery).

Political Parties Dictate Policies TO The Citizens

Political parties decide policies according to the ‘boys in the backroom’ and the supporters of THAT party. They then use ‘promises’ to fool the citizens into voting for them. Whether they carry out these promises if elected to government is a matter of chance – from experience usually very doubtful. But the fact is that THEY decide whether or not to carry out some of THEIR promises. THEY are in charge – not the citizens.

The best way to describe the typical feelings of the electorate in feudal-democracies is CONTINUED PERMANENT DISAPPOINTMENT with the political parties, time and time again, election after lection, because policies are nothing but lies.

The irony of this pathetic farce is that ALL the promises which the political parties make during an election, if they were in fact carried out, would have to be paid for BY THE CITIZENS THEMSELVES via the Public Funds. Please take a minute of two to truly think about that! Again, it is obscene in a ‘democracy’.

Political Parties Distort The Appearance Of ‘The Will Of The People’

In simple terms the political parties promise things during an election and yet carry out another set of actions after being elected and despite this political truth they always defend their behaviour by proclaiming the lie that it is ‘the will of the people’ when in fact it is in many cases AGAINST the will of the people. Most political decisions made by most political party were NOT voted for by the people. The citizens are powerless victims.

In most feudal-democracies the main political parties are either Right-wing or Left-wing and this gang warefare suits the parties. For the citizens in an election it is a case of choosing one or the other – a take it or leave it choise. The actuality of the situation is that most citizens do not belong in either camp, or gang, but have a mixture of values and hopes, but the system, owned by the political parties, forces the citizens to choose one gang or the other and are then told that whatever the winning party does is the will of the people. It is nothing less than the total distortion of the will of the people, who don’t want to be in either gang.

That is why one political party gang is usually followed within 2 elections by the other political party gang. It is NOT the wish of the people but merely the inevitable automatic frustration of the people.

Political Parties Encourage Bribery

Because political authority is concentrated in the hands of the few bribery becomes very streamlined and easy. The USA President and Congress do the bidding of the large corporations and financial institutions – they have been bought. In EVERY democracy there are bribery scandals where politicians, especially the leaders of the main political parties, are bought (and less so the members of the political party in Government) by those in business looking for, and receiving, favours.

Choose any country you want and you will find corruption at the highest levels of government. The system in feudal-democracies is designed in such a way that the main political party can do as it likes as regards regulations, legislation, contracts, appointments, tax breaks, minimum wage levels, and the use of Public Funds etc without any restraint or control, so bribery can guarantee that the politicians will do exactly what the funders, donors, and supporters demand.

Imagine a situation where there is talk of increasing the minimum wage and a business which employs a few thousand workers wishes to prevent that from happening. What should they do? Firstly it would be well worth they while to ‘donate’ some money to the political party which is in power, and if an election is looming on the horizon, to donate money to the party which has the best chance of being in government after the election – and which ‘repays’ favours.

If you think about it, there is one simple fact – the more the political party is corrupt and can guarantee favours for its benefactors, the more donations they will receive. The system is organised in such a way that the more corrupt the political party, the better chance it has of winning an election.

Political Parties Decrease The Citizens’ Political Choice

The citizens are left either voting for one of the main political parties or powerless smaller parties or independent politicians. If they vote for a small political party or an independent their policies will not be put into effect. If they vote for a major party there is a very good chance that, firstly they only support some of that party’s policies, and secondly the political party will do what it likes if and when it gets into power.

Any citizen who is driven by the desire to improve the wellbeing of the citizens of a nation, and wants to go into politics, will always be fighting an uphill battle when trying to get elected. It is the political parties which will receive the large donations – for they promise anything on account that they are driven by what they can get for selling out! So in reality there is little point in an individual trying to fight the political system, with the hope of improving it, as long as political parties exist.

The citizens are left choosing a political party, in blind hope – usually ending in despair, rather than choosing individual policies. It is similar to a situation where, in a supermarket, the customer would only have a choice of pre-packaged trollies, and not be allowed to choose each and every individual item they wanted to buy. That would be a ridiculous scenario, and yet that is how our political system is arranged.

Update (2nd May 2013) Iceland’s Election Results:

Iceland has just had an election and the results prove everything I have been saying here. The two coalition political parties which led and allowed Iceland to go down the financial blackhole have been re-elected! This result is incredible! Citizens actually CHOOSING the same political parties which destroyed their Nation. I just do not have adequate words to describe just how crazy this situation is!

But in a Feudal Democracy there is practically NO OTHER CHOICE because political parties control the system – a terrible depressing FACT.

Voter turnout was low because some voters realised that it is all a waste of time voting in an election held in a Feudal Democracy. They should have turned out and voted to OVERTHROW the dysfunctional system: https://lougogan.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/start-the-us-revolution-with-a-pencil-on-election-day-2012/

Every citizen in every Nation needs to learn this lesson and begin to understand how the system works – against the best interests of the citizen!

Political Parties Decrease The Quality Of Political Debate

Apart from election time, the political parties can do as they like and can change policies to suit themselves, their backers and supporters.

During election time the attitude of political parties is more akin to childish gang warfare: name calling, buffoonery and childish antics. They use catch-phrases, they pick holes and find flaws in the other party’s manifesto (despite most likely intending to carry out some of the proposals themselves). It is a game of pretence and usually ends up being nothing less than an auction where the political parties vie with one another to promise goddies for the citizens who grab on to the party promising the most – despite the fact that the citizens will be paying for these promises.

If you watch any political debate all you ever see is a childish inter-party blame game, with each party picking on actions which the other party carried out while in power and avoiding the real questions of what they will actually do for the future of the nation.

In most Nations, on the run up to any election the PR gurus, psychologists, election managers, advisers, and any other types of person able to create lies and deceit in the eyes of the voters is hired to literally fool the citizens into voting for the candidate with the best presentation and image. In most cases the funds for this wall of electioneering propaganda is either the bribes from supporters (political investors) or in some cases even from Public Funds.

Another dangerous effect of political parties and the childish inter-gang rivalry they produce is this notion of opposition politics. If one party says YES the opposition party will say NO – and visa versa. There are cases when this is automatic to the point of destabilising not only the government but the whole Nation. The whole purpose of the ‘Opposition’ is to destabilise the Government – THINK ABOUT THAT. It happens in every political system with political parties but the greatest example at present is the USA where the Republicans and Democrats are determined NOT to cooperate whatsoever to the detriment of the Nation and especially its citizens.

Added to this is the opposite of ‘opposition politics’ – blind party loyalty. This is where the political party will support a member of their party no matter what – yet again to the point of being detrimental to the Nation. Again the greatest example at present is the USA. No matter what undemocratic legislation and regulations President Obama pushes forward the Democrats will not criticise him. If George Bush has used the drones to the level Obama has been using them the Democrats may have spoken out and yet now, because the President is a Democrat, they are silent. So in essence what any President does is irrelevant as regards criticism; to these political parties it is only important which party the President belongs to which will decide if they criticise him or not. The policies themselves, like the negative effects on citizens, are totally irrelevant.

Political Parties Increase The Level Of Corruption In Politics

Parties need funding and look for political donations and many deals are done regardless of the effects on the citizens. Each member of the ruling political party is more attractive to those business which can gain by buying politicians. When you buy a member of a political party you know that the politician will use bes influence to persuade other members to vote in the same way.

Also the supporters, and funders, of the political party will expect better treatment and preference when Public Funds are being allocated, or appointments are being made. Often included in the tendering cost is the expected kick-back described as a political donation. The stronger the political party is the larger the donation is expected to be because more can be promised in return.

Political Parties Increase The Level Of Cronyism In Politics

People join political parties for what they can gain. The more corrupt the political party is, the more reward is expected for the vigorous unquestioning loyalty of the members and supporters, and the even greater attraction for corrupt and incompetent followers and supporters. If the political party is appointing people for public boards and committees the level of competence takes second place to the level of support and donations given by a possible appointee. Favouritism guarantees incompetence. Favouritism in politics guarantees a dysfunctional Nation. Favouritism ensures that the citizens of those Nations pay a heavy price.

Political Parties Increase The Level Of Incompetence In Decision Making

The criteria for any decision being made in Government is what the effects it would have on the party elite and supporters. The effects of any decision on the citizens is of no consequence unless it is approaching a general election! Not only that but because of the favouritism, cronyism and personal whims of the party and, more so the party leader, those appointed to positions in Government and public bodies and committees, will automatically not be the most competent or intelligent available, for the politicians themselves will automatically NOT be the most competent.

Personal and party-political considerations will always take preference. This guarantees mistakes, guarantees misuse of Public Funds and guarantees a permanent gradual decrease in the wellbeing of the citizens and the Nation.

Political Parties Increase The Level Of Instability In Budgets

Each political party has its own pet projects which their followers want and there is the constant desire to undo the previous Government’s attempt at introducing whatever proposals they happened to have. Yet again, a good eample is the USA where the Republican party will undo much of what the Democrats did while in Government, and visa versa.

The destructive effect of that is that budgets are seen as individual whims of the Minister of Finance and whatever political party they belong to. There is no continuity whatsoever to budgets – they are in effect random unconnected financial and social decisions. They are treated like a plaything by the political parties with the prime concern being whatever is to the benefit of their political party.

Not only that, but in order to lessen the reality of the level of incompetence of that political party’s policies, the political party will borrow funds (run deficits) – from the citizens of the future, in order to make it appear that the nation is prosperous thus in many cases guaranteeing their re-election.

In other words, political parties see Public Funds as party political funds and will use budgets even to weaken the Nation in the long term, as long as it is to the benefit of that political party. Look at all so-called democracies – they are ALL in debt (even ignoring the banking crisis at present).

Political Parties Decrease The Voice Of The Individual Citizen

When political parties rule, the citizens have absolutely no say whatsoever. It also gives a distorted view of the wishes of the people. In 2004 the most corrupt Irish political party Fianna Fáil had a membership of 55,000. They RULED the Nation and appointed incompetent individuals to positions of authority. On average there are 3,000,000 voters in Ireland. Yet although that political party only had a membership of 2% of the electorate they had total control over the whole Nation. Those 55,000 members of that party could expect and received greater preferential treatment and regulations passed to benefit the business members of that party.

Also, because the citizens are not organised but the political parties are, the mainstream media interview the politicians from the larger parties as if they spoke on behalf of a sizeable number of citizens, which is grossly incorrect. Members of a political party represent the members of THAT party – NOT the citizens. Again, the mistake being made is in associating the number of seats a party received to the number of true backers of that political party which are FEW. Most voters usually choose the ‘least worse party’ rather than ever being a committed follower of that party. Yet the political parties have a voice but the citizens don’t.

Political Parties Increase The Level Of National Instability

The organising of a Nation by using the political party structure is so irrational it is truly difficult to fully explain. But consider how businesses are managed. A board of directors isn’t made up of ‘gangs’ who existance is primarily to disagree with other gangs on the board. They all work together. Yet in Parliaments we have gangs who are literally working AGAINST each other. How ludicrous is that?

The best example at present is Italy where the Parliament has been unstable for 40 years or so. Now they have so many political parties with their own agenda, and unwilling to form a cohesive Government, the level of instability is astonishing – and at a time of great financial threats.

Another very good example is the USA where the Republicans when they have a majority will do their best to undo whatever the Democratic party regulations were put in place which they disagree with, and likewise when the Democratc get the majority they will undo whatever the Republicans had put in place. This also happens in the UK and Ireland, and presumably in most other feudal-democratic systems with political party petty squabbling at it core. If you think about it, it is GUARANTEED instability.

In Ireland the government is introducing a water charge and some opposition groups and opposition political parties have grabbed this opportunity to destabilise the government with the hope that they may cause the government to fall thus enabling an election soon. They organised protests, using their own supporters and set about to manipulate some of the naive citizens into protesting with the intention of causing instability for the sole purpose of ensuring they have a better chance of increasing their members of the Irish parliament at the next election. POLITICAL PARTIES will do ANYTHING to get more seats – even if that means destabilising the Nation. Citizens who allow themselves to be manipulated in this way truly deserve the contemptable title of SERF, for they have swallowed the lies told by the politicians that they really care about the ordinary plebs. These serfs have allowed themselves to become pawns in the political scramble for power.

Would A New Politcal Party Improve Matters?

The simple answer is NO.

Firstly, in most feudal-democracies, as soon as a few political parties become entrenched within the political system, and soon end up owning the political system, it is practically impossible to form a new political party which would become a viable alternative within a short while, and even if it did, it would only mean another gang on the block which, in itself, wouldn’t empower each citizen within the political process. It would make the political system more unstable.

Secondly, if it was truly representitive of the wishes of the ordinary citizens with integrity at its core, it wouldn’t receive the donations and backing from big business who only do so with the definite and corrupt understanding that these donations are repaid in political and legislative favours which the honest political party would not be willing to promise.

Also, any new party would only ever be a fringe party unless there are extenuating circumstances, for example, the UKIP party in the UK, but the only reason it may grow is because their policy is about a fairly specific issue – the membership of the EU.

If you examine the structure of politics in many countries it is easy to see that the political parties which have ben sharing, or swapping, power over decades will never really have any new substantial opposition from any new party. The examples I am aware of are the US (Republicans and Democrats), the UK (Conservatives and Labour), and Ireland (Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour, and possible Sinn Féin).

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Update (6th Aug 2013)

Egypt:

What is happening in Egypt during July-August 2013 demonstrates just how disruptive political parties are. The Muslim Brotherhood party are determined that THEIR man Mohamed Morsi be returned to power. This political party represents THEIR members. They do NOT represent the citizens who are fearful of a religious political system and a religious Constitution. They are NOT interested in the wishes of the citizens. Despite Morsi’s promises before the elections (ALL politicians tell lies during an election – to con the citizens), he attempted to install a Muslim Brotherhood Constitution forcing HIS will on the Egyptian citizens, with arrogance and contempt for the ordinary Egyptian citizens, like that of a feudal lord. THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY. Sadly, it turns out that Egypt had a failed revolution. The citizens are powerless.

USA:

Some States in the USA are turning into dictatorships because as soon as one of the main political parties achieves the majority they implement policies, legislation and re-drawing of electoral boundaries (gerrymandering) so as to PREVENT the citizens from ever having a real choice of replacing the political party in power. If they get their way they would create a true dictatorship. But this is exactly what each and every political party wants and would implement – if they has the opportunity and the daring to attempt it. Political parties are not concerned with giving the citizens a choice – it is the opposite – they will prevent the citizens having any choice to the best of their abilities. THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY. The citizens are powerless.

USA: (update October 2013)

I think the behaviour of the Republican Party, in shutting down the US government, truly demonstrates the extent of the contempt which ALL political parties have towards citizens. They have ALWAYS refused to recognise Obama as the legitimately elected President of the USA. They are determined to block everything he and the Democratic party tries to do. This is blatant gang warfare and the citizen victims are merely irrelevant pawns caught in the middle – as always.

I do need to make one thing clear – this does NOT mean that I support Obama or the Democrats. President Clinton neutered the Glass-Steagle Act and allowed the banks run riot. President Obama has decimated the rights of the citizens via the NDAA, prosecuting patriotic whistleblowers and encouraging a devastating TPP which will give the corporations even more power OVER Nations. He is on the side of the elite and those who make allowances for his treachery merely because he is a so-called Democrat clearly demonstrate the danger both of political parties, and of the blind faith of zombie party followers.



Citizens deserving that noble description should not have faith in ANY political party. Leave that for those wishing to be servile. In a Democracy 1.0 it is the citizens who decide policy (through special citizen feedback proceses). Unfortunately too many US citizens think that the Democratic Party has the answers as if that party can be trusted to act for the benefit of the citizens. True citizens should not trust any political party or see any political party as being the ‘saviour’.

Citizens in a democracy should only put their faith and hope in fellow CITIZENS, Constitution 1.0 and Democracy 1.0, to the exclusion of all else. Feudal elite RULERS should be left to the pages of history where they belong.

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Summary

The stronger the political party – the weaker the quality of politician

The stronger the political parties – the weaker the democracy

The more political parties – the less power each citizen has – the more unstable the political system

Political Parties are the enemy of the citizens because their main aim is to take away the political power which each citizen holds

Political parties are NOT the only threat to Democracy. The core problem is the fact that we are imprisoned within a political system based on Feudal-Democracy and that is the reason why political parties can rule to the detriment of the citizens because Feudal-Democracy is a hierarchical political system where those at the top rule and those at the bottom, the citizens, are utterly powerless. Merely getting rid of political parties will NOT solve the main political problem. To solve the problem Feudal-Democracy must be torn down and replaced with DEMOCRACY – anything less will not be productive in the long run.

In a true Democracy (Democracy 1.0) ALL political parties would be totally, absolutely, and permanently banned – by the Constitution 1.0, so that the citizens themselves would have a real opportunity of partaking in the political process without the dictatorial, corrupting, negative and destructive influence of these vested interests criminal gangs.

There is a much more detailed, and in my opinion much more interesting, full length chapter on Political Parties and elections on my personal web site (Feudal Democracy – Chapter 4 – Political Parties) which should open your eyes to the reality of your present political system.

Proposals (unfinished) regarding a political alternative – Democracy 1.0 – can be found here (Democracy 1.0 – List Of Documents) but they are only the basic fundamental principles – not the full finished product. Solutions are irrelevant unless, firstly, all the major problems are fully understood.

I’ve written another blog, since writing this one, which I consider to be a very important and fundamental explanation and insight into elections, and how they also destroy, corrupt and warp the wishes of the citizens, Election Results In A Feudal Democracy (will open in new window).

Lou Gogan

April 2013

last update: (20th November 2014)

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