Posted on 08/26/2023 3:27:21 AM PDT by John Semmens
World Economic Forum (WEF) adviser Adam Grant says "the only way democracy can be saved is to do away with elections. Allowing voters to select their rulers invites a toxic struggle for power. Unscrupulous politicians malign each other, offer unsustainable giveaways in efforts to buy votes, solicit the large donations from powerful corporate interests that are essential to running a campaign in exchange for future policy favors--it's a thoroughly rotten system."
Grant's proffered replacement for voting "would be a lottery to select presidents, legislators, governors, mayors, and any other positions currently filled by electing the person who will serve. Those who wish to have their names placed into the pool eligible to serve would be screened by a permanent council of 'guardians of our democracy' to weed out the unfit. Criminals, lunatics, racists, hate-mongers, and known enemies of democracy would be excluded. This would leave each office with a pool of several hundred fully qualified persons from which to draw."
WEF founder and chairman Klaus Schwab praised this as a "newer and purer form of democracy. The WEF already has a core of top leaders who can serve as the council of guardians--men of extraordinary genius and selfless altruism who will protect the common people from the greedy opportunists who currently dominate the politics of elections. Pandering would be neutralized. Vote fraud would be impossible."
Schwab rebuffed fears that the guardians could be corrupted by pointing out "all of us are immensely rich and likely immune to any bribe that conceivably could be offered to put an unfit person into the pool. Even if this turns out to be incorrect, the person who bribes his way into the pool would be a 100s to one long shot against being selected. Freed from the fear of voters, the randomly selected rulers will be able to implement unpopular, but necessary policies. They will be able to cull the herd, simplify the lives of those deemed worthy of life, and ensure a more harmonious existence for all of humanity."
In related news, according to a recent poll of registered voters conducted by Premise Data, 43% would vote for Trump and 38% for Biden. Trump asserted that "this shows we are stronger than ever in our campaign to make America great again." Biden's campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez brushed off the poll results, saying "they have ignored the unregistered voters who gave the President his victory over Trump in the 2020 election. I'm confident they will do it again in 2024."
If you missed any of the other Semi-News/Semi-Satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/349206-2023-08-26-semi-news-semi-satire-august-27-2023-edition.htm
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To eliminate elections, a permanent council of ‘Guardians
of Our Democracy’ will be formed to weed out the unfit.
Criminals, lunatics, racists, hate-mongers, and known enemies of
democracy would be excluded.....thus eliminating every registered Democrat.
The Left isn't trying to come up with a better plan for democracy. It is trying to destroy democracy so it can implement a Marxist dictatorship.
When Schwab said, "You will own nothing and you will be happy," he forgot to include the 2 most important words...
Or Else!
We don’t need to get rid of elections to impede the consolidation of power, we need term limits.
Thanks, John, for another important column, identifying what should be our weekly worries. It gets more difficult to separate the news from the satire, and the "semi" qualifier might take a back seat.
BTW, might Klaus Schwab be the global Jim Jones?
Anyone pushing this or going along need to be at the front of the line at the guillotine. This is the sort of mentality used in running a prison.
How can you continually outdo yourself ?!
you ask...
might Klaus Schwab be the global Jim Jones?
yes
I don’t know if I continually outdo myself.
I think the advocates of tyranny have become bolder and less concerned with concealing their intentions with every additional bleat from their intended victims.
When you can induce a majority of Americans to take a dangerous and ineffective vaccine and have them assail their saner neighbors and family members who won’t your megalomania is further energized.
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