Dear Friends,
It seems to me people who are jealous and vote by their jealousy get exactly what they deserve. A degrading economy, rising crime rates, increase in drug use and a generally angry society. It is truly unfortunate that people are still so ignorant and egoistic here in the twenty first century. It’s a shame really. The horrible thing is, that those that don’t vote by their emotional state are also thrust into a declining civilization, in every measurable way. We are all swept with the current of society, into a rapids of poverty and away from the lake of prosperity.
When a person knowingly visits an evil on another they are by definition a bad person, to the level of evil they have visited on that other, until amends are made to rectify the situation. This is a basic moral precept of human social existence. It is so subtly known that it is almost never openly stated yet we employ it all the time. We understand and apply this philosophy unconsciously when we are incensed that we are cut off by another driver. We subconsciously know amends can never be made.
No matter if we do a bad thing, to an individual we know or a person we do not know, it is bad, as long as humans are held to be equal in humanity. We can call this another facet of our concept of Reciprocal Applicability. We are far more cognizant of this, when we deal with loved ones and friends, else we don’t have any. We often forget this concept when we deal with strangers and groups of people. It is a human facility that we can easily generalize an entire group of people as bad. When we do, and we are jealous of them, we often lash out at them. If the only way we feel we can seek retribution for that group being evil, in our eyes, is politically, some of us jump at the chance. Setting up the very same tension in society that ended the Roman Republic and produced the Caesar.
When we do evil through our right to suffrage to some despised group we open ourselves to evil being done to us by the government. Moreover, that despised group is not monolithic, no matter how we twist logic to make them so. They are not evil no matter how much we may hate them for being rich, they may even be us… to someone else. If you consider, the mutual applicability of governmental power, for a moment this becomes a self evident fact.
If enough of the voting population of a country votes by their jealousy then that country is doomed. We see empirical examples in the form of Greece, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Venezuela, now Bolivia and Ecuador along with innumerable others. No matter if the Marxists gain power by revolution or election, the result is the same, poverty, famine, oppression and suffering. But the rich usually escape the worst by rushing the exits. It is the former middle class and poor that suffer the deaths through starvation.
Those unfortunate people who did vote with their brains instead of their pancreas’ have to suffer too. If we cannot wake enough others up we will suffer right along with them. The rich will get out and leave us to starve under socialism. But, oh well… It was Saint Augustine who said, “People get the government they deserve.” That is never more true than under a democracy. Yet…
Until we, as humanity, grow up and understand this precept in human nature and in the operation of the World, applying it not only to our own friends and family but to humanity and government as an institution, this problem, the jealousy glitch, will hold us down forever.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
