{"id":36623,"date":"2018-08-14T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36623"},"modified":"2018-08-14T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:49:11","slug":"technocrats-rule-democracy-is-ok-as-long-as-the-people-rubberstamp-our-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36623","title":{"rendered":"Technocrats Rule: Democracy Is OK as Long as the People Rubberstamp Our Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technocrats Rule: Democracy Is OK as Long as the People Rubberstamp Our Leadership<\/a><\/h3>\n

Technocrats rule the world, East and West alike. <\/i><\/p>\n

We are in a very peculiar ideological and political place in which Democracy (oh sainted Democracy) is a very good thing, unless the voters reject the technocrat class’s leadership. Then the velvet gloves come off.<\/b> From the perspective of the elites and their technocrat apparatchiks, elections have only one purpose: to rubberstamp their leadership.<\/p>\n

As a general rule, this is easily managed by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising and bribes to the cartels and insider fiefdoms who pony up most of the cash.<\/p>\n

This is why incumbents win the vast majority of elections.<\/b> Once in power, they issue the bribes and payoffs needed to guarantee funding next election cycle.<\/p>\n

The occasional incumbent who is voted out of office made one of two mistakes:<\/p>\n

1. He\/she showed a very troubling bit of independence from the technocrat status quo, so a more orthodox candidate is selected to eliminate him\/her.<\/p>\n

2. The incumbent forgot to put on a charade of “listening to my constituency” etc.<\/p>\n

If restive voters can’t be bamboozled into passively supporting the technocrat status quo with the usual propaganda, divide and conquer<\/i> is the preferred strategy.<\/b> Only voting for the technocrat class (of any party, it doesn’t really matter) will save us from the evil Other<\/i>: Deplorables, socialists, commies, fascists, etc.<\/p>\n

In extreme cases where the masses confound the status quo by voting against the technocrat class (i.e. against globalization, financialization, Empire), then the elites\/technocrats will punish them with austerity or a managed recession.<\/b>The technocrat’s core ideology boils down to this:<\/p>\n

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Technocrats Rule: Democracy Is OK as Long as the People Rubberstamp Our Leadership Technocrats rule the world, East and West alike. We are in a very peculiar ideological and political place in which Democracy (oh sainted Democracy) is a very good thing, unless the voters reject the technocrat class’s leadership. Then the velvet gloves come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[204,10262,253,2384,1302,9231,858,965,4318],"class_list":["post-36623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-democracy","tag-east","tag-elections","tag-elite","tag-status-quo","tag-technocrats","tag-voting","tag-west","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36624,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623\/revisions\/36624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}