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Democracy? The line separating democracy from tyranny is much thinner than you might think. It’s about understanding how, why and by whom the bipartite electoral system was created, which draws the obvious conclusion that Western democracies have a lot in common with foreign dictatorships: by limiting the choice of the people between two heads of the same monster, we only determine the name of our four-year tyrant.

TRADUCTION DE LA NARRATION:

Democracy was created in Greece, where the agora became a physical place where people could exchange ideas and suggestions on the future of their country; little did they know that they were creating a viper’s nest. From the very start, Aristotle, well-known as a philosopher, noted an enormous problem when democratic voting was given to the people; poor people were often toothless and represented the majority, they would therefore inevitably vote legislations that would benefit them. To soothe the worries of the middle class bourgeoisie, Aristotle imagined, in his philosopher’s heart, that the solution was to reduce the gap between social classes, in order to benefit everyone. In other words, the poor needed to be less poor and the rich, a bit less rich.

Much later, in 1789, the Fathers of the American Constitution decided that their successful revolution gave them back the power to establish a democracy in their young American country. James Madison, one of the brightest of the group, noted with the same sigh, the dilemma that Aristotle had come across and had solved some 16 centuries prior. Madison was puzzled on how they could push the poor masses to vote laws that would favour the wealthy and the elite. Not quite as philosophical as his Greek predecessor, he thought tha a system that would limit choices was a good solution. In short, the poor would remain poor, but would choose between two rich representatives.

This is how the wonderful bipartite voting system was created, where allowing the poor to cast a vote is in fact a trick of smoke and mirrors, as both parties to choose from are the two heads of the same monster, also called plutocracy. This monster than uses its parasites to suck half of the people money earned by working, into its bank account. All that was left to do was to identify these two political parties with different ideologies, different colors such as blue or red and associate them to two animals such as the elephant (in the room) or the donkey (in the corner with a bonnet), which are a mere smokescreen to give the impression of a democracy. The bipartite voting system is in fact a choice given to change or keep your dictators every four years.

In the United States, two parties are switching power back and forth since 1789, while Canada is doing the exact same thing since its confederation in 1867. Over time, the parties have changed names and identities, but every country of the New World Order is living under this dictatorial system, dressed-up as democracy, where two parties have been swapping power for two and a half centuries, whether they are called Republicans and Democrats, Liberals and Conservatives, or Tories and Labour.

It is high time to recreate the Greek Agora, as imagined by Aristotle rather than the controlled system of Madison.