Asleep at the Wheel

March 16, 2023 ~ archercrosley ~ Leave a comment

I must admit that I was asleep at the wheel for most of my young adult life.

I don’t think I was stupid, although I most certainly was; it’s just that I was more focused on getting through college and medical school than in paying close attention to world affairs.

I remember watching the talking heads discuss issues on Sunday morning talk shows. The experts bandied out words and phrases such as detente and mutual assured destruction, but these terms were passing strangers in the night.

They were visitors who had stopped into the motel of my mind for the evening; they were there for a cup of coffee.

In the morning they were gone.

I was hopelessly naïve.

I actually believed that anyone could grow up to be President of the United States.

I believed in the Constitution of the United States.

I still do.

It’s too bad that our leaders do not.

For if they did, the people of United States might have a chance in this world.

They might actually have a say so in what goes on in their country.

But they do not.

Your country, my country, is not ruled by us.

It is ruled by an uncaring oligarchy – the Harvard Cartel.

Like Caligula of old, the Cartel cares principally for itself, its members, and their bank accounts.

They puff themselves up with meaningless awards while homelessness abounds in our inner cities. cities.

Many of you would like to know what will happen in the future.

Will we go to war in Ukraine?

Will the banking sector collapse?

Will the stock market boom?

What about cryptocurrency?

Will it collapse? Or will it soar?

What factors will determine what happens?

My jaded eyes, and my experience in life, has taught me this: Whatever happens will happen because the ruling elite, the Harvard Cartel, has decided that it will happen.

There is no way of predicting what they will do.

If they want us to go to war with Ukraine, it will happen.

If they don’t want us to go to war with Ukraine, it will not happen.

Likewise with the stock market and cryptocurrency.

If they want cryptocurrency to collapse, that is exactly what will happen

If they don’t want it to happen, then it won’t happen.

Yes, they have that kind of power.

Not only do they control the government, they control the minds of men.

Yes, yes, yes, I know, you are an intelligent person who has free will to make your own decisions.

Maybe you know many people who think like you, and you know for sure things that will happen.

I can assure you that you are in the minority. And, you are making a critical mistake by thinking that just because you think that it will happen that it will happen.

You’re wrong.

What happens will have nothing to do with what you think.

I don’t care if you have 30 million people on your side, what happens will happen because the ruling elite says it will happen.

They control the minds of men.

You may have thirty million people who think like you, but the ruling elite control the minds of hundreds of millions of people in the United States.

I don’t care if you have 100% of the truth on your side.

The ruling elite can promote a lie in the minds of hundreds of millions of people and defeat you with two hands behind their back.

It won’t even be a contest.

If the entire country seems to be against the war in Ukraine, our elite only need to create a false flag in which 25,000 Americans lose their lives at the hands of the Russians (of course), and you will have American intervention in Ukraine overnight.

If our ruling elite want the stock market to boom tomorrow, they can do it.

They can manufacture an artificial boom, and then use their media to promote that happy times are here again.

The masses will dutifully follow.

You won’t be able to do anything about that because you are a minnow, and they are a whale.

And whales tend to win.

You are along for the ride.

You are outnumbered.

But all is not lost. There are things that you can do.

You can choose to lead a moral life.

You can choose not to spend all your time on TikTok.

You can choose to devote more of your life to scholarship.

You can treat your friends and family with greater consideration.

You can choose not to eat corporate foods that make you obese.

You can lesson the amount of time that you permit mainstream media to lie to you.

You can begin voting for candidates who are regular people, who do not owe their livelihood to the Harvard Cartel.

You can write a letter to the pigs at Levi Strauss, and ask them why they are exploiting the people of Haiti, who only make five dollars a day – max.

You can choose to not send your children to Harvard university.

You can choose to donate $25 to a charity.

You can do many, many things that will make a difference in your life.

And making a difference in your life will ultimately impact what happens in Ukraine, what happens in the stock market.

One individual can change the world, but to do so you must focus on yourself.

Forget about these pricks in the government.

Forget about the press and the Harvard Cartel.

They don’t care about you at all.

You’re not going against Jesus by thinking such.

In fact, Jesus would approve of you walking away from the ruling class.

Render unto me what is mine, says Jesus; render unto Caesar what is Caesars.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

Junkies

February 24, 2023February 22, 2023 ~ archercrosley ~ Leave a comment

What do Alex Murdaugh and our leadership in the United States have in common?

Give up?

They are both junkies.

Are you following the Alex Murdaugh trial?

If not, a little background might be necessary.

Alex Murdaugh is accused of killing his wife and son at his home in South Carolina. Alex Murdaugh is an attorney who hails from a family with an impressive pedigree in what is known as the Low Country in South Carolina.

The prosecutors are claiming that Alex Murdaugh killed his wife for money.

Alex Murdaugh had a drug habit that was costing him approximately $50,000 a week.

To finance his drug habit, he was stealing money from his law firm.

And his clients.

When his clients received a big judgment – in the millions – Alex would pocket more than his fair share of the money.

In addition to his habit, Alex was also under financial stress because of a pending lawsuit against his son, Paul, who had gotten himself involved in a boating accident.

A young girl, Mallory Beach, was killed in that boating accident, and the belief was that Alex’s son, Paul, was driving the boat.

The boat belonged to Alex Murdaugh.

To compound the issue, Alex Murdaugh’s other son, Buster, had loaned Paul his driver’s license in order to buy beer illegally the night of the boating accident.

Thus there were many lawsuits filed against the Murdaugh family – criminal and civil.

The civil suit was asking for tens of millions of dollars.

The prosecutors claim that the financial pressure of the impending lawsuit and Alex’s drug habit caused Alex to kill his wife and son.

The thinking goes that if Paul is dead, the lawsuit goes away – or at least becomes mitigated. If his wife is dead, Alex gets to keep any of her money for himself.

The case doesn’t look good for Alex Murdaugh.

The prosecution has an amazing stash of evidence that implicates him.

If his attorneys can get him out of this trial with minimal damage then they are truly Houdinis of the court room.

Buster is supporting his father.

Buster is emotionally attached to his father.

I am not surprised at all.

It’s difficult to believe that Alex would kill his son. I can understand a husband killing his wife, but it is difficult for me to believe that a father would kill his son unless he was truly psychotic.

Alex Murdaugh does not appear to be organically psychotic.

Nevertheless, the evidence is strong against him.

But assuming that one day he is proven to be guilty, then he will be formally convicted of destroying his family.

And this is why Alex Murdaugh is so similar to our leaders in the Harvard Cartel who have hijacked our federal government.

Alex Murdaugh is a junkie who was addicted to opioids.

Our leaders are junkies who are addicted to war.

Both Alex Murdaugh and our leaders are drug addicts.

Both have destroyed their families.

Both have destroyed their reputations.

Both have poisoned the community in which they live.

This is what drugs does to people.

Drugs consume you.

Drugs distort your mind.

This is what has happened to the United States of America.

The leaders of the United States of America, consumed by war, have committed domestic abuse against its citizens.

They have raped the American public, they have stolen from the American public, they have abused the American public in order to feed their drug habit.

And they are addicted.

Their addiction to war is insatiable.

They are killing the United States of America.

By spending all the family money on Ukraine and the Middle East, they have failed to keep up with the infrastructure needs of our country.

They have failed to develop an affordable comprehensive healthcare system for working class people.

They have failed to control massive immigration.

They outsourced well paying jobs.

They substituted outsourced jobs with low paying jobs at Starbucks and Amazon.

By outsourcing well paying jobs, they destabilized the family unit thus causing depression, divorce, spousal abuse, child abuse, and all sources of social ills. This in turn created an opioid crisis.

They replaced a faith based culture with that which places its faith in gambling, celebrities, tattoos, and cheap gossip.

They are bankrupting the United States of America through endless war.

Just as Alex Murdaugh ruined his family financially, so have the leaders of the United States ruined its people financially.

They are all junkies.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

I Support the Founding Fathers, Old and New, Those Traitorous Insurrectionists

June 19, 2022June 19, 2022 ~ archercrosley

Are you one of these people who condemns the January 6 insurrection?

Are you a wimpy, wussy bitch like Sean Hannity who condemns the invasion of the Capitol?

Not me.

Are you sick and tired of these pseudo-conservative cowards who constantly egg people on to do something about the unfairness in society, and then, when the people act, condemn what they do?

Why should any of us condemn what those brave insurrectionists did on January 6?

Do you condemn the American colonists and the Founding Fathers for standing up to the British?

They would’ve been hung, you know, by that tyrant and motherfucker, King George, if they had failed. That’s what British monarchs did.

They also impaled their insurrectionists on poles outside the city of London up until the 1800s, not too long ago.

Oh, you say, it’s not the same thing. You can’t compare the Founding Fathers and the insurrectionists on January 6.

Oh, yes, it is the same thing.

It’s exactly the same thing.

That’s why I don’t condemn what the insurrectionists did.

Yes, I know the protesters were goaded into entering the Capitol building. I hear you, babe. They were.

Nevertheless, they were breaking the law. Even though it was a set up, they were breaking the law, and they knew it.

So fucking what?

The American colonists who rebelled against the British were breaking the law also.

Newsflash! The British were the law in America in the early 1700s.

The American colonists were not rebelling against a foreign invading force.

The British were America.

The joint was called British America.

There was no United States of America at the time.

What the people who entered the Capitol building on January 6 did was the same thing that the American colonists did against the British: they were rebelling against the existing law and order.

Hello!!!

If you are going to condemn the insurrectionists on January 6, then you must also stand against Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and, yes, even the scoundrel, Alexander Hamilton.

You can’t have it both ways.

If you are going to condemn the insurrectionists on January 6, then you must condemn the Boston Tea Party.

That’s what that little wussy bitch, Sean Hannity, doesn’t understand.

That’s what that other coward, Tucker Carlson, doesn’t understand.

They fall all over themselves in condemning the insurrectionionists on January 6.

We must renounce violence, they speak in grave, measured tones.

Is that a fact?

Did George Washington renounce violence, Sean Hannity?

Did Thomas Jefferson renounce violence, Tucker Carlson?

Did James Madison renounce violence?

Did Alexander Hamilton renounce violence?

Did Betsy Ross renounce violence?

No, they did not. So why do Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity renounce violence?

Wait a minute, here’s Oprah Winfrey.

Oprah Winfrey says in low measured tones that we must renounce violence. Her puppets nod approvingly.

Wait a minute, Oprah. Did Nat Turner renounce violence?

No, he did not. He led a slave rebellion. Would you prefer that he have renounced violence, as you recommend, and become a coward in the face of injustice?

I doubt it.

So then why do Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson renounce violence?

Could it be that they are, after all, corporate stooges who are more interested in their own pocketbooks.

Yes.

They renounce violence and denounce the January 6 insurrectionists because they want to keep their television shows. They don’t want to risk anything for American freedom.

They are stone cold cowards hiding behind their mommy’s skirt.

They are betrayers of the American experiment.

I support the insurrectionists 100%.

I am glad they invaded the Capitol building.

They are not American villains. They are American heroes.

That fucking Congress and those fucking elites stole an election. Moreover they betrayed the American people.

They stole the election for Joe Biden just as they stole the election for George Bush 20 years prior. Ha ha, Democrats. Ha ha, Republicans.

Our leaders have been betraying the American people for the last 100 years.

We’ve had nonstop war in this country. We’ve had outsourcing of jobs.

We have inflation out the ass. We have homeless rapidly filling our cities. Drugs and crime abound. Instead of well paying jobs we have gambling, celebrity culture, cheap gossip, and tattoos.

Instead of quality education which encourages students to think critically and learn, we have standardized tests which encourages rote memory and blind obedience. Is it any wonder that children are stressed out? Teen suicides are on the rise. Preteen suicides are on the rise. School shootings are now the norm.

We have had nobody sticking up for us.

Why would I want to go against those people who had the guts to do something about it?

I’m not going to fall over myself trying to condemn them. I’m going to announce my support for them.

They are not the ones who should be in jail. The ones who should be in jail are the very representatives who betrayed American values and who sold their souls to Corporate America.

There, I said it. And I’m not apologizing.

Fuck you, Sean Hannity, you amazing coward.

Ditto to Tucker Carlson.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

Wrong Thinking

January 4, 2022 ~ archercrosley ~ Leave a comment

So there were secret commandos with shoot to kill orders there at the Capitol on 1/6?

I don’t think our Congress gets it. If you need to have secret commandos to protect politicians, then you’re doing something wrong.

That’s the take home message.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

The Value of Honor

December 5, 2021December 4, 2021 ~ archercrosley ~ Leave a comment

Right now, right at this moment, I am watching a ceremony on television that I watched as a child when I visited Washington, DC.

I am at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and soldiers are walking through the ceremony.

The soldiers are immaculately dressed, and they perform admirably.

It is a beautiful ceremony, but I must guard myself to not take the wrong lessons away from it.

Washington can seduce you when you visit there.

There are many memorials and monuments worth seeing.

They represent the history of our country, and it is a country that we can be proud of.

But these monuments also have the power to destroy.

Many of these monuments were built by Americans of a different generation who did not think the way we now think.

Our country has drifted far from its religious underpinnings.

When our antecedents built memorials, God, and all the good that God represents, was foremost in their minds.

The power of Caesar was not.

And yet, the white marble, the vastness of the buildings, their sheer weight and size, can so be easily misconstrued as to what these monuments represent.

Lincoln was a godly man who was not so much concerned as to whether God was on his side but whether he was on God’s side.

His memorial must convey that.

As must the others.

But we are not of Lincoln’s era.

Nor that of the Founding Fathers.

And so these monuments have taken on a different meaning.

They are now a catalogue of sites that Americans check off as part of an indoctrination program into America’s might and power.

Our news media forever crows about America as the most powerful nation on earth.

As do our leaders.

The President of the United States is regularly feted as the most powerful man on the face of the earth.

Did Lincoln shower himself with such illusions?

The monuments are now part of the supporting cast to justify our Presidents’ decisions on waging war around the globe.

The monuments sanctify us, purify us, justify us.

But that was not their intent when they were first constructed.

Monuments and memorials do not exist for war. Nor do they exist to create heroes.

Nor do they serve as a pretext for vengeance or domination.

They exist to deliver a message.

Those men who sacrificed their lives as in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier are talking to us.

They want to tell us something.

They are asking us to dedicate our lives to forging a better world than the one that took their life.

As Lincoln said in the Gettysburg address:

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

Unelected Cabal

November 5, 2021November 5, 2021 ~ archercrosley ~ Leave a comment

Why do I rail against the Harvard cabal?

Is there something wrong with me?

No.

Aside from being given a mission by God (not my choice) to destroy Harvard University, I rail against Harvard University because they are an unelected cabal.

They have no authority or mandate to hijack the government of the United States of America which is exactly what they’ve done.

If the Founding Fathers had desired a so-called elite institution like Harvard University to rule the country, then why didn’t they cut to the chase and set things up that way?

I think it’s a good bet that they didn’t do that because they didn’t want things set up that way.

The Founding Fathers were very wary of replacing one tyrant with another.

That’s why they set up a system of checks and balances. It makes sense, right? They wanted to disseminate power, not concentrate it.

It probably didn’t occur to them that a university which is supposed to be knowledgeable, thoughtful, and intelligent would embark upon a mission of arrogant tyranny.

Isn’t that amazing when you think of it – that a school that one would think would be knowledgeable about empire, tyranny, and why civilizations thrive and collapse, would desire to recapitulate Rome.

Now, if Harvard University is so smart, as many of you think it is, then why is Harvard not smart enough to not do what they are doing.

Doesn’t Harvard understand that when you place too many people in power who come from one institution or a small group of similar thinking institutions that you produce an inbreeding of thought that will ultimately engender an inflexibility and ossification of society that restricts its ability to adapt?

And isn’t that precisely what we are seeing in the United States of America today.

As our leadership has ossified under the death grip of Harvard University, other countries who have relaxed their totalitarian ways have moved ahead of us.

Is that what we want?

It’s not what I want.

I want to see the United States of America adhere to the principles of the Founding Fathers.

I am not interested in a Supreme Court justice musing about it. I want it to be so.

Well, we are never going to get there unless Harvard University is defeated.

That’s why I rail against Harvard University.

They are destroying the United States of America.

We can’t have America the country and America the empire at the same time. It’s impossible. We can have one or the other but not both.

And if we can’t have a country, then what’s the point of the empire?

If Harvard can’t understand that, then Harvard must go.

Based upon its lack of understanding, its lack of insight, Harvard University has proven itself to not be comprised of the best and brightest.

In which case, again, Harvard must go.

The sooner the better.

Harvard has made a mockery of the Founding Fathers and the Constitution.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

Forget Democracy

August 18, 2021August 16, 2021 ~ archercrosley ~ Leave a comment

Maybe the form of government doesn’t mean as much as we think it does.

As long as people believe or trust stupid things, what’s the point?

As long as people a) worship money, b) idolize celebrities c) believe that people who graduate from certain schools are of superior intelligence, can any form of government save us?

Suppose we had kings and queens, but people were of the mindset that freely congregating during COVID-19 while protecting the elderly was the way to protect ourselves, would we be better off?

Of course.

Well, instead we had sham democracies that were “elected” by powerful international cabals who control large multinational corporations.

These large multinational corporations control the media that effectively propagandize people and make them believe that lockdowns and masks will protect them.

Now the people are ingrained into believing that a yearly booster will protect them which is good for the corporations.

Lots of money there, eh’

So, here we have a theoretically superior system – democracy – that is supposed to make life better for us. But it hasn’t.

Why hasn’t this supposedly superior form of government called democracy worked?

Because the elites have programmed the people into believing that people who graduate from Harvard, MIT and Oxford are the best and the brightest.

Because the people follow celebrity-demigods like Dr. Tom Hanks who tell them to stay at home.

Because the people listen intently to billionaires like Bill Gates who clearly must be smarter than the rest of us because he’s accumulated so much money.

It made total sense that treating a number like an R-naught value would force the virus down on its knees and cry uncle, right?

Sure.

Perhaps we might be better off in spending less time on the form of government and more time on the myths that people believe.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

Know your Enemy

August 17, 2021August 15, 2021 ~ archercrosley ~ Leave a comment

The unvaccinated should not be vilified.

It is their choice and right to not be vaccinated.

I don’t agree with their choice, but it must be respected.

That’s the price we pay for living in a free society comprised of individuals who are not subservient to the state.

Does the state exist for us, or do we exist for the state?

The vilifiers of the unvaccinated believe in the latter.

This is a slippery slope to hell.

When we take that step out onto the ledge of vaccine mandates, we are submitting our freedoms to public safety as determined by the government.

The Bill of Rights soon becomes nullified.

In short order all rights become subject to the greater good and of course public safety as determined by the government and its lackey media.

Thank you, Robespierre.

Thank you, Goebbels.

It will only be a matter of time before the elites through the media begin putting the question into people’s minds as to whether public safety would best be served my searching everyone’s house and vehicles on a regular basis.

It will only be a matter of time before the elites through the media begin putting the question into people’s minds as to whether public safety would best be served by limiting people‘s ability to speak out against the government.

It will only be a matter of time before the elites through the media begin putting the question into people’s minds as to whether public safety would best be served by banning guns altogether.

You get the idea.

This is the danger of vaccine mandates.

It is the first step to tyranny.

The government can go much further. They can bankrupt us by making us pay fees in order to adhere to whatever silly mandate is conjured up by their whim.

A mandate to purchase health insurance will soon be returning to a theater near you. Even though the individual health insurance mandate was reversed under Donald Trump, the flawed logic of John Roberts still stands.

Other mandates will follow once the ice is broken.

You will soon enjoy no personal freedoms.

Is this the country we want? Is this a country that can work?

The answer is no and no.

Vaccine refusers are not the enemy.

That they choose to refuse the vaccine is not an indictment of them but of the government that has engendered the distrust it so richly deserves.

It is not the vaccine refusers who are the threat to public safety, but the government itself.

Vilify the government, not the vaccine refusers.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

The Right Fight

August 16, 2021August 14, 2021 ~ archercrosley ~ Leave a comment

Once again I shall talk about Julian Assange.

I think it’s important to bring up his case from time to time because Assange sits in a prison today at the behest of the United States government and in particular ignorant fools like Mike Pompeo, sell out artist extraordinaire, who sold his soul to the elites for a few pieces of silver.

Julian Assange’s crime was to expose the criminality of our elites as they fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Assange had the courage to do what Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of the New York Times did not have the courage to do.

Assange reported the truth.

His most notable exposition was that of helicopter personnel gunning down innocent civilians in Iraq and then joking about it.

The government ultimately accused Assange of helping to steal government documents.

Of course, they haven’t proven that yet. Nevertheless Assange sits in Belmarsh prison in the UK waiting for extradition back to the United States.

The UK can always be counted on to partner with the United States in criminality because the UK taught our elites how to conduct this criminality. The UK had a head start on the United States and has conducted its criminal enterprise of exploitation, theft and murder for over five centuries now.

In that regard, the United States is a mere child, an eager novice learning at its mother’s feet.

Given that Assange will be tried in an American court, it would seem logical that he should enjoy the rights of an American citizen even though he is Australian by birth.

As an aside, though he is an Australian by birth, by his actions and his courage he is more American than most of us. I will include myself in that.

Because he has been incarcerated for well over a year, because the Sixth Amendment grants us the right to a speedy trial, Julian Assange’s Sixth Amendment rights have been conclusively violated.

This is not important to our elites who claim to defend the Bill of Rights.

I find it ironic that Assange is currently housed in a prison in the United Kingdom, for it was that criminal nation that imprisoned many of our ancestors before they immigrated to the United States.

That’s why our ancestors came here.

They wanted a better way of life.

They didn’t want to be imprisoned in the Tower of London upon the whim of the queen or king.

They didn’t want to be impaled on the city walls of London as was the case up until the 19th century.

They didn’t want their children to grow up in a Dickensian workhouse.

They didn’t want to bow and curtsy before a queen.

They didn’t want government to fight endless wars, certainly not as an economic model.

And they sure didn’t want a government that would violate our basic inalienable rights.

That’s why they articulated the Bill of Rights which are the crown jewels of the United States of America.

The Bill of Rights is what we talk about and what we fight about. It is who we are as Americans.

One of those rights is free speech which is what Assange engaged in.

The other right is the right to a speedy trial which has been denied to Julian Assange.

Without that right, the government can keep us incarcerated for life which I suppose is what they plan to do to Assange.

Why have a trial? The trial is now unnecessary without the Sixth Amendment being adhered to.

This is great for the ruling class.

But for the rest of us, not so much.

This is why it’s important to remember Julian Assange.

The fight for his freedom could not be more important.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

Presentative Democracy

July 8, 2021 ~ archercrosley ~ Leave a comment

Do you believe that representative democracy is the ultimate form of government?

I don’t.

I think it’s a terrible form of government.

The elites figured out how to rig elections pretty much the day after they came into being.

Did you know that Napoleon and his brothers rigged elections in France?

That was 200 years ago.

Not only did they rig the elections and plebiscites, they were brazen enough to rig them with rounded number victories: 16 million to 4 million.

Forget about the fine-toothed comb.

Why bother with precision?

But even if elections weren’t rigged, why would we want a dope who knows nothing about the issues to cancel out our vote because some Boss Tweed type clown bought him a barbecue sandwich?

This is the problem we have with elections today.

Actually, it’s worse.

No longer do the elites have to mess with paid voters showing up at the polls.

With our “advanced” voting machines, the elites can remotely program the votes in with the click of a button.

It’s unhealthy.

The politicians will gladly help that criminality along by assuring that voter identification not be required at the polling booth.

Clearly the politicians and the elites who control them desire the system to be this way.

Since they do, what does that say about them?

What does that say about representative democracy?

This invites the question as to why politicians should be voted into office in the first place.

We don’t elect cardiologists.

We don’t elect bakers.

We don’t elect carpenters.

Instead we vote with our feet.

Instead of a formally electing someone, we actively use the people who we say offer the best service.

So why don’t we do that in politics?

Why don’t we jettison this idea of electing one guy to represent us every two to four years?

Maybe we can devise a different model in which to get things done.

What would this system look like?

To get things done any citizen could petition a professional (specialist) who has gone to school for handling that specific common function that we currently entrust to the government. Let’s say that we want to widen the intersection near our office so that it can accommodate a dedicated right hand turn.

Once that specialist is petitioned, a mechanism is set in place so that other petitioners can either join in or oppose the petition.

This petition after a certain period of time can then be adjudicated by professional judges that are agreed upon by the specialists.

In this matter, citizens can then make changes to their city or neighborhood that they feel are important and relevant.

None of these specialists or judges would be subject to being elected. They would go to school to gain expertise.

There could be specialists for schools, specialists for roads, specialists for healthcare, education, specialists for what have you.

Accordingly there would be judges for these areas of expertise.

The mayor, and the commissioners would be a thing of the past.

What would be the consequences of such a system?

What would be the upside? What would be the downside?

Theoretically, we should have greater expertise and better decision making by virtue of having specialists take care of various issues.

We trade in the bloated, corrupt jack of all trades for a lean, clean machine of expertise.

Secondly, we decide issues on their own merits, not by compromising other areas.

Currently, if we want to improve our schools, we have to give in on other issues. We can’t just improve our schools; we have to give the mayor’s buddy the concrete job for the new highway even though doing so may be a really bad idea.

So if we moved to this new system, gone would be the giant omnibus bill in which congressman can throw in their pork.

But maybe that’s not a good thing. Maybe pork and fat is good.

Maybe people need that pork to provide needed jobs that otherwise can’t be gotten.

That is something we would have to think about.

But it’s worth trying.

It’s worth trying because the current system isn’t working.

Representative democracy doesn’t work because the key weak link is the representative himself.

If the representative is bought off by corporate interests, which is what’s going on today, then democracy can’t possibly work.

Within a democracy that’s controlled by people who can present their case directly to a specialist, let’s call it presentative democracy, we might stand a better chance.

Of course, the specialists and judges can be bought off, but by decreasing their range and scope, we might be able to limit the damage they can do.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley