For generations now, many men have taken for granted their rights to democracy. More broadly, the average man does not even think about the reasons why they now have the ability to participate in politics in any meaningful capacity. For the vast majority of recorded history, democracy has not been the norm but the exception, and this has quickly turned into a series of competing cancers trying to overtake the once healthy body.
Since ancient times political power has resided with varying classes, concentrated either in a single individual or dispersed amongst a small to medium sized class structure. In its extreme, the monarch arose to take sole control over a people, either in the form of chief, king, emperor, dictator, or otherwise. Everything that happened within his realm was decided either by him, or by men appointed by him. They were the singular point by which their country either failed or prospered.
From the monarchy arose the Aristocracy, a class of either loosely blood related individuals or the descendants of the original founders of a functioning state. These men and women formed a core by which they appointed a leader or at least the rules of succession. Though a monarch may arise during an Aristocracy and may function as its head of state, it is by no means the origin or even the majority holder of political power of a nation.
The origin of the founders of an aristocracy usually arose from a band of warriors who either left their own lands in search of new ones or rose up and took over their own lands. Regardless, most Aristocracies arose not from pampered spoiled children, but from ruthless men who took what they desired and were able to form highly honor and trust bound societies of brotherhoods in which they were able to create new or overtake old nations and create their own. These were highly motivated, highly intelligent, highly skilled men who were required to form aristocracies.
Time kept marching, and with the advent of certain technologies, the dispersal of education into a greater swath of society, and the rise of republics, an educated merchant class came into existence where there once only existed the ruled and the rulers. From the aristocracies and monarchies was stolen the political power and distributed amongst the moderately wealthy merchants and land owners of society. Every man with a stake in the nation received some form of vote, but there were barriers to entry with which no mere newcomer could hope to participate in. This merchant class had both the education and leisure required to adequately run a nation, though not noble by birth.
Soon the merchant class faded and began to blur the lines once again between common man and nobility, degrading the meaning of the words with each successive generation. Eventually the words became something that could be hopped from and to within a single lifetime and political power was once again dispersed even wider unto a new warrior class, one with half the commitment and far less than even a small fractionion of the reward of the original aristocratic warriors of older times. Every vote was secured by a man who was able to complete his short-contract within the military. With no reward of a nation, and no path of glory, these often conscripted men secured the right to something they may have not even previously desired. This was a massive turning point in politics, and one frequently overlooked. The consequences of voting rights distributed to the majority of common men lead to the concept of human rights, universalized rights not easily denied but almost never defined, and the manifestation of which has been warping society from centuries now.
We now stand at what is a complete abhorration of politics. Every man, woman, and possibly some day for a brief time even children will have the ability to vote. The complete dispersal of power to those without the proper time nor education to understand politics has not been a freeing experience, but rather another tool by which to rule to the common man. By preoccupying the minds of those with the smallest fraction of political power with trivial problems or even problems far beyond their understanding, there arose a warped union between aristocracy and merchant class, the oligarch.
The oligarchs are the richest of society, the non noble often hereditary merchant class that rules society with no set morals and no higher objective. They are opportunistic parasites that wish to control the slowest and largest swathes of society. Democracy on this scale does not exist on any meaningful scale, because the scales are weighted by the hand of the ultra-wealthy unscrupulous oligarchs that desire to put themselves in more advantageous positions. The nation to the oligarch is not something to defend but to siphon power. The state of the common man is not something to elevate, but to denegrate. The livelihoods of the people are squashed by multi-national corporations in the name of universal good and undeniable human rights. Nations without borders, people without roots, a world where no one has rights except those that write the unseen rules.
You live in this corrupt world, dominated by billionaires who feed politicians millions in order to pass legislation for their own good. You live in a state in which the wealthiest have paid off journalists to become puppets of propaganda.
Rather than well researched arguments you now hear the modernized peasant class spout off whatever was fed to them by the puppets. You are no more free now than your ancestors were a thousand years ago, though now you may never those who rule above you. The ladders are being kicked down. Class mobility will stagnate, and those that would have risen to power in ancient times will not be able to rekindle the flames of a nation as in old. This will be a long decline, sporadic with chaos and not quickly dying.
Politics have become a disaster for modern peasants. Men have become pawns to be played by invisible hands, and if they refuse to be moved or go their own way they will be removed from the board and replaced. You will continue to hear terribly incorrect opinions about nations these people just discovered exist not more than five minutes prior to speaking to you. You will continue to hear people harmonize about rights that have never existed, nor ever truly will in any real sense. You will continue to see those who are ruled squabble about the things that do not concern them until the last drop of life blood has left this nation and parasites move on to the next nation to harvest.
However, there will come a time when parasites will either have feasted on every piece of cattle and sucked them dry or one in which the harvested will rise above the harvestor once more. Only time will tell brothers, until then, I am here with you in the abyss.
A very good analysis. Thank you.