The Fall of the American Empire (1/14)

Page 34 of The Path of the Masters
Men talk and write much about democracy. I
suppose many Americans fondly believe that they live
under a democratic form of government. But that is a
pet delusion, a tale to be told to children along with
other pretty fairy stories. It may be good
for Fourth of July orators or men seeking election to
office. But it is no more than an illusion. It only
appears real, because men and women vote to. elect
their favorites. There is not a real democratic government
in the world and there never has been one. There
is nothing but oligarchy, and that is mostly an oligarchy
of wealth It is not even an oligarchy of culture.
That would be, infinitely better. Voters are simply
manipulated. A few men rule the nation. The masses
move like sheep and do as they are told. Can you
imagine a hundred million people going to war of their
own free choice? They are always led into war or driven
into it by a few ambitious or misguided politicians. Of
course, when one nation goes to war, the attacked
must defend themselves. And that is the only time when
a war is fully justified. But what starts the aggressor?
The five passions, ignorance, misunderstanding, on the
part of the leaders. The real people, the hoi poloi, are
not governing themselves. "A government of the
people, for the people, by the people" has never existed,
except in the noble heart of a Lincoln or some such
friend of man. What we really have is an oligarchy
of the "men of influence." And that generally means
men of money. We know that is so.

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