Our Common Cause

I want to talk to you about democracy. The real one. The one that does not
exist, and the one we really need today. My research method is that of
Hippocrates, who said, look for the cause of causes. In other words, to cure a
disease, to solve a problem, it is useless to attack the consequences, it is
useless to attack the different causes. There is always a determining cause
(the one that determines all the others)—and that is our common cause. The
first decisive battle is to push the important words "right side up": First. I
am not a "citizen" (a citizen is autonomous; he votes himself his laws). I am
only a "voter;" that is to say, a political child—because I am subject to the
law voted into existence by someone other than me. Second. My "parents" in
politics, the elected officials, do not want me to emancipate myself from
them—they do not allow me to vote for or against the laws to which I have to
submit myself. We are "the incompetents." They treat us like children. But it
is our fault, because children also believe in "Santa Claus," and so voters
believe in "universal suffrage," which we accept to call "democracy" (demos
kratos, power belongs to the people). The so-called modern "democracy".