Every four years, the American people get giddy and excited over their presidential election. There is a reason for that. In the run-up to the election, the presidential candidates cater to them, are nice to them, and offer them lots of benefits in the hope of garnering their votes. But everyone knows that come November 6 — the day after the election — the situation will return to normal, with an abusive ruler in charge and the serfs deferentially and obediently serving him or her for the next four years.
Imagine a slave plantation in the Old South. Let’s hypothesize that every four years, the slaves had the right to elect their plantation taskmaster. In the run-up to the election, the slaves would be just as giddy and excited as Americans are in the run-up to presidential elections. That’s because the candidates running for plantation taskmaster would be nice and kind to the slaves in the hope of garnering their votes. But as soon as the election was over, the slaves would know that they now had four more years of abusive slavery under whichever taskmaster was elected.
Even though most Americans have been indoctrinated, primarily in the state’s educational system, into believing that they live lives of freedom, the reality is that they don’t. The American people are serfs who are owned by the state and whose lives, from birth to death, are devoted to serving the state.
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Consider, for example, the federal income tax. The federal government decides how much of a person’s income he is permitted to keep. Sometimes they are nice and let people keep more. Sometimes they are not so nice and let people keep less. But make no mistake about it — it’s the government that is deciding what percentage of their income people will be allowed to retain. Thus, whatever amount the federal government settles on, that amount is essentially a government-granted allowance to the serfs.
Consider the welfare state. The serfs are required to send large potions of their income to the state, which then distributes the money to people who are deemed to need it more. In the process, the serfs are made to believe that they are good people who are exercising care and compassion toward others.
Compare that to the way of life of Americans who lived without income taxation and a welfare state for more than 100 years. They could accumulate unlimited amounts of wealth and decide for themselves what to do with their own money. And there was nothing the government could do about it. Americans were the masters, and the government was the servant.
The fact is that the purpose of people’s lives here in the United States is to sustain and support the federal government, especially the functions of the national-security establishment, the welfare state, and the regulatory bureaucracy. That’s what the American people exist to do — serve the state — whether they want to believe it or not.
That’s why the government wants everyone to be healthy and productive — so that they will be able to better serve the greater good, which is represented by the federal government. That’s why we have drug laws. Drug addiction impedes productivity, which harms the state because it means lower tax revenues. The state wants everyone healthy and happy because that serves the greater good. The notion that people should be free to live their lives the way they want, no matter how self-destructive, is anathema in a serfdom society.
Sometimes serfdom requires service that is more direct. That’s what conscription is all about. Rather than permitting the serfs to simply work in the private sector and send in what they are required to send in, the state orders some serfs to leave their jobs in the private sector and go to work for the state on a full-time basis, specifically within the military-intelligence sector. Again, the state is in charge and the serfs’s job is to comply, going wherever and doing whatever the state orders.
What American serfs do is attempt to carve out as happy a life as they can within the confines of their serfdom. They try to save a portion of what the state permits them to keep and use it to brighten their lives, like with buying a new car or going on periodic vacations. What oftentimes happens, however, is that many American serfs, especially the ones who suffer the psychosis that comes with a denial of reality with respect to freedom, resort to alcohol, drugs, and even aberrant violent behavior.
But every four years, the serfs get giddy and excited because it is the one time that the person who will become their master ruler for the next four years caters to then, compliments them, is nice to them, and makes all sorts of promises to them. But through it all, everyone knows that come November 6, the master taskmaster will back in charge and that he will have the full power of the federal government to drive the serfs to work ever harder for the greater good of the collective.