Some Politicians are Worth a Damn
A month ago when Trump was ramping up to bomb Syria yet again on baseless accusations of chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian government I thought - What can I do to prevent this, this time?
I recently moved to San Jose, CA from Atlanta and decided to look up who my representative was:
Lucky me.
He does not take money from corporations - as almost every other politician in Washington is essentially bribed:
Also if you look on his site, he actually responds to his constituents:
My first thoughts when I saw this is that no way a congressman would respond to a commoner like me.
Well I was wrong.
I did send him a note via his site asking him to do everything he can to prevent Trump from unilaterally bombing Syria. I also mentioned that impeachment is justified should Trump move forward as he must seek congressional approval first.
Here was his response:
I was very happy to have been heard. While Trump ultimately carried this action out, I do believe we have some members of Congress that are trying to fight against the Military Industrial Complex and change things up in Washington.
While I do not agree with all of Mr. Khanna's stances, I would definitely vote for him moving forward for not only this reason but his consistency in his words, actions and stances since he has been elected.
I am hoping this post inspires people to not just assume that their representative is just another bought politician, but may be one who is worth a damn.
That was an amazing story. I have grown so thoroughly disillusioned with politicians that it is almost shocking when you see one that actually represents and engages with the people who elected them.
I may emigrate from Canada to the US just so I can move to San Jose and have this fine man as my representative. ;)
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STOPTypically, unless congressmen identify as small-L libertarians(ie: Jared Polis, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, Justin Amash) they are tyrants in all areas where they are effective, and ineffectual in all areas where they are pro-freedom. ie: Socialists who are good on the issue of war and maybe a few social issues(anti-war, pro-drug-legalization) are ineffective at preventing war or reducing prohibitionist tyranny, but their other bills that expand government power are supported by the other totalitarian sociopaths in Congress. In this way, congress acts as a "one way valve" that supports a steady flow of tyranny into our lives.
It's only when someone is consistently anti-government (libertarian) that they begin to provide a tiny bit of resistance to the dominant sociopath-driven paradigm. The framers of the Constitution called this networked sociopathic action "tyranny"(only the anti-slavery framers were coherently anti-tyranny-for-others). The abolitionists expanded the terms used to refer to tyranny: bondage, servitude, kidnapping, and slavery. Stanley Milgram's test of Americans to see if they would act immorally in service of false authority found the affirmative, and then, the My Lai massacre provided the final chapter in his book "Obedience to Authority." Shortly afterwards, Llobaczewski(anglicized) labeled the study of political evil "Ponerology," and labeled modern government(s) with the term "pathocracy" or "rule by sociopaths."
This last view has a lot of explanatory power. The rule of law in democratic republics functions well shortly after their creation, but tends to be destroyed by sociopaths who are more highly incentivized than others to capture the offices of power. Those who are not pure sociopaths are "sociopathic at the higher hierarchical levels of human organization, which are then both made abstract to them, and placed significantly out of reach of their influence."
For this reason, only jury trials really matter to the minority of intelligent self-educated libertarians. The remainder of the libertarian movement that requires working with others has been captured by the fraudulent "Libertarian Party."
Neutralizing opposition networks is a delicate art. If it becomes too obvious that that is what is happening, money and talent can be brought to bear against that neutralization effort. For this reason, the existing police state has a very intelligent policy: they encourage the stupid libertarians(the LNC, CP, RP, Cato, Mises, etc.), and "infiltrate and impede" or attack the smart ones(Schaeffer Cox, Ross Ulbricht, Irwin Schiff, Aaron Patterson, FIJA.org).
This leaves an inept freedom movement to oppose tyranny. The tyrants then shrug their shoulders and say, "You can organize against us, it just so happens that nobody is intelligent enough to get anywhere with that strategy. The public must not agree with libertarianism."
Of course, when someone begins to effectively organize against them, they are usually scuttled, framed, arrested, etc.