June 23, 2007
by Evans Munyemesha
| Comment on the Blog
It is both lamentable and strange that some desperate political apostles should be willing to continue to suppress our individual sovereignties and enslave us through the political process of elections. But that many of our contemporaries, and apparently civilized people, should approve of, and practice, this vicious and degenerate custom, without a care as to the evils it breeds, must be astounding to all those who have faithfully and energetically committed some time to the study of the subject of human government.
This trade in coercive elections, a political commodity of worth only to those who indulge in the practice of imposing their beliefs and values on others, is a wicked trade that the reasonable and conscientious find odious, for it debases man by robbing him of his active and productive faculties as it ingeniously demands of him to have his eyes fixed on a political idol in the shape of another mortal.
How could man be said to be free when everywhere his right to act for himself has been replaced by the magical right of the politician to act on his behalf? If a politician, or a band of a hundred of them, is competent to act on behalf of more than 300-plus million Americans, who is acting on behalf of this politician? If a politician could simultaneously act for himself and for millions of others, he must have attributes unlike those of mere man. But let us cast our eyes about and see if our politician possesses any attributes that raises him above mere man. Do we find anything superior or extraordinary about him?
The politician, by arrogating to himself the power, through the despicable and presently costly ritual of elections, to represent others violates the sound principles of natural justice, thus confounding and disturbing social harmony by the assumption of arbitrary dominion. If there is power to represent others by coercion, such power must necessarily be both void and destructive. But as destructive power could not conduce to freedom and progress, then, it must conduce to its opposite which is slavery and poverty. Political representation, the foul fountain of this destructive power, must itself be a ferocious farce.
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But it may be argued that this political power, the power of political representation, has its origin in the will of the people. I answer that, were that to be so, that is to say, if there is a people of a mind so debauched and mentally inferior as to irredeemably bind themselves to a political invention on the belief that one man could justly represent the many; and that these many could unanimously judge of the justice of this political arrangement where the many debase themselves by elevating this one man above themselves is mentally inconceivable and therefore utter nonsense.
As Americans, or a people anywhere else, could never be of one mind, there therefore could never be such a thing as the 'will of the people.' But if the 'will of the people' is a political fiction, as we find it to be, then political power must be nothing but an arbitrary, irresponsible, and vicious instrument of lordship over the whole people upon whom it is exercised. If the people were not so credulous and indeed if they cared to scrutinize with a critical eye the political legacies of their dead forefathers, they would doubtless stumble upon the established fact that political representation is an audacious and criminal scheme to profit the politician and impoverish the common citizen.
The peddlers in the trade of political power, so audacious, ambitious, rapacious, and criminal, have no principled position on any common affair, pandering to every interest group and political issue as it suits their political gains. Most shocking of all is their allegation that right is in favor of their wicked trade. Isn't the barbarous trade in political power, and the binding of fellow man in the regulatory chains of politics offensive to both Nature and Reason? So vain, vile, and monstrous is this vicious trade that all societies tremble under its crushing weight.
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Evans Munyemesha [send him email] is author of soon to be released libertarian book, "Poverty: A Treatise On Its Principal Cause"
