This is the last of the pre-2010 articles which I have moved to this blog.

Northerners never miss a chance to measure others’ democratic members. Americans’ division of the world into Free and Evil is reflexive. By Democracy, they mean ‘people like us‘! People who shop, who drive cars, who go to the mall; people who consume! You know what Democracy means? Democracy means shopping.

Indeed, their mental image of it has been so formed. Irrespective of higher voter participation, and better breadth of candidates, it simply is not Democratic if it does not come with the obligatory Democratic stock footage of nice cars, nice hotels, expressways and luxury boutiques.^1 Equality of spending does not produce ‘Democratic’.

Is democracy possible otherwise? Regardless of the answer, they do not expect it otherwise. It will come as a surprise to nearly all, that, for Them to gain Democracy, We have to lose it. The planet cannot sustain the consumption of the 5% in North America, let alone when the illusory Democracy is granted delusive entrance into the hinterlands of the American empire.

So the question is two-fold: when the guided agent progénitures of the pastel ‘revolutions’ realize that they will not reach their promised consumption, how will they respond? Will Americans ever vote to have less?

Rah Sabs

June 2005

^1 Of course this is being re-marketed. See Pastel Revolutions. But the expectation of North Americans, as to what the outcome will look like, is still the same.