Dear Citizens of the Great State of Montana and elsewhere
As you all know there is a multitude of serious issue’s with our voting system. From election fraud to non citizens voting… the list goes on. I’m going to inform you on another issue with our voting process. The problem of not having a strong enough criteria that disqualifies certain people from voting. Ultimately, it’s the problem of complete unfettered unrestricted democracy.
This country was founded as a Constitutional Republic. It was not founded as a “democracy”. Democracy is nothing more than mob rule. Democracy can be defined as an ideology that believes that 51% of the majority can cut off the 49% hand. It is one of the oldest forms of government. Democracy is egalitarian in nature and egalitarianism is the bases of communism to which redistribution of wealth is rationalized with. Our Founding Fathers were well aware of the dangers and issues of democracy. In fact so much so that they believed that only Property Owning Men should be allowed to vote. If unrestricted voting and democracy is so great why did our Founders Establish the Electoral College in the Constitution? In fact when America was founded only property owners were allowed to vote. In those times Voting was seen as a privilege and not a right. And I agree with them. It’s a great privilege and responsibility. Why is it that the city dweller that owns no property can vote to raise Land owners property taxes? How is that moral? How is it that someone that does not have any long term ties to the land to which his voting will effect has the right to dictate or have a decision via voting whether a man that has tied his roots to the land how to live, how much to pay and what to do? The property-less man can drift to the next town like he so pleases without the worry of a property he does not own therefore he can leave the area he bastardized as a result of his poor voting decisions so that he himself does not have to reap what he sows. How is it a right that a man can vote to make someone pay a tax that he himself isn’t going to pay? What “Right” is that? Why should the tax collector that lives off of the taxes that he takes from the productive Man be able to vote on matters that will make the productive Man pay the tax that he the tax collector himself won’t have to pay? Can you see the moral hazard?
How is it that we can except that there is a need for a Electoral College to balance out our votes to give rural blue collar Americans in the heartland of America a voice to whom is going to be President of the United States but we’re not supposed to question the integrity of an election process that gives the city of Portland voting power to dictate the governors race for all of Oregon? Why is it that we have not made in State Electoral College for governors races or Statewide office seats so that that two cities within our state don’t end up deciding the outcome for the totality of our State?
The necessity of the actions that need to be taken to restrict voting privileges to only those that have a stake in the Land as well as to restrict voting to only those that ARE NOT net recipients of tax payer money as well as the creation of a Local State Electoral college should be self evident. The massive population increase into Montana cities like Bozeman and Missoula poses a threat to the Montana Mans Liberty and posterity.
The more people that those cities pack into them through their inorganic growth as a result of the bombardment of mass advertising, international corporate interest, Hollywood obsession with Montana, artificially low interest rates and dense housing the more that these small geographical areas will be able to impose their power upon the rest of those that live in Montana if something is not done to stop the destructive uninhibited election and voting process.
I have been griping about this very thing for years. Thank you for writing about it.