Democracy Study Guide v1

Intro: Lies and lies and more lies

We are in very great trouble today, quite possibly the most dangerous time we have ever faced as a species aspiring to be an advanced civilization. We are about to become an advanced totalitarian 'civilization', the worst type of dystopian world ever conceived in sci-fi or fantasy stories, a modern 1984 but worse, with a handful of literally all-powerful rulers and a massive population of essentially slaves, all movements tracked, subject to instant ostracization for breaking any rules, denied access to their 'digial currencies' at the whim of the dictators. Few people seem aware of this, for many reasons, one of the more important being that that most of our modern population is controlled by the media (the almost overnight creation of a worldwide covid cult literally numbering in the billions, based entirely on 'the sky is falling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' lies wildly propagated by the 'mainstream media' that any 'compos mentis' person should have shown a great deal more skepticism about rather than immediately jumping on the covid cult bandwagon, is evidence of this beyond refute, the evident inability of most people to apply the most basic level of critical thinking to the fearporn onslaught), essentially a dumbed down passive population created by the 'education' system, functioning in a matrix constructed almost completely of lies. The governments, almost all modern western governments included, lie incessantly about everything important, with the essential support of the 'legacy' or 'corporate propaganda' media which in recent decades has become completely taken into the 'deep state' and parrots and pushes the same lies about everything, all 'real' journalists removed from their pages or websites. And the last couple of years revealed that this prevarication disease has been metastasizing behind our backs, as with covid we found many or most of our once greatly trusted institutions which should have been repositories of intelligence and critical thinking and impartial scientific reasoning and resistance to the blatant lies of the rulers didn't seem to hesitate at all but began parroting and pushing the same lies when required to support the covid scamdemic scenario, including our once so-honored health and legal systems showing they too were giving unquestioning support to the covid liars and their lies (don't even think 'oh but they were well meaning but just made mistakes!!!' - if that were the case, they would have listened to the many experts who were pointing out how wrongheaded their edicts were, with much 'real scientific' evidence, and quickly returned to something resembling sanity - but no, they refused to listen to experts and maintained their lies and restrictions - still do - in the face of overwhelming evidence that everything they have been doing is NOT supported by real science and is indeed harmful).

And it is just not possible to build a decent society or community on entrenched systemic lies controlling society decade after decade - how can it be possible to have a decent community, the 'decency' bit which functions to a very large extent on honesty and trust and civility, when you cannot trust not only your government but any of your essential institutions, your doctors, your media, your courts, your police system, the education system, nothing related to 'government', when grifting and deceit are ways of life for all major institutions and a large part of the leaders of the community or country, and thus also a significant number of citizens following their leaders' examples??

The last few years it's gone to a quite incredible new level - the rulers lie and lie, and when some people see through this and get upset and try to tell 'the truth' to counter those lies, the rulers don't simply ignore and marginalize them as in years past, but now they have a new 'mis/disinformation' tactic, as they actually undertake major campaigns to attack those questioning official lies, to label the actual truth as mis- or disinformation and ban it, and threaten to punish and ban the people telling the truth for 'spreading disinformation'!!! - and with quite breathtaking brazenness openly try to sell the idea that their own lies are 'truth' and they the liars the 'truth tellers'!!!!!!! We are in a completely upside down world, truth is officially lies and lies are officially truth, just unbelievable Orwellian perversity and evil, exemplified to truly unbelievable extents in the 3 major ongoing lies from the US parroted by all mainstream western media in recent years, the 'Trump-the-Russian-puppet!!!' lies (and many other things about Trump, with on the reverse side attendant incredible coverups of the clearly criminal enterprises of the Clinton and Biden families), the covid lies, unbelievably being still propagated and believed as we finish 2022 although they've all been clearly exposed for years, and the Ukraine-Russia lies, complete fiction being written in the western media about the entire situation - and it's even worse that a very large number of people appear or sycophantically pretend to believe the liars and support them, and attack the actual people trying to tell the truth!! It's unbelievable that the entire western world does not rise up in outrage at this terrible attack on all that is good in our society and kick all of these lying bastards out of office and into the nearest max-security prisons - but they don't, and that underlines both the difficulty facing us who do see the truth and want a society based on truth and honesty, and the necessity to get at beating back this government of lies, and get at it successfully, immediately.

There are a small handful of major lies that underlie everything else, the lies that bind the others, that together shape the bounds of our society, that all reinforce mutually, that cause us, or at least most of the people in the country, to have certain general beliefs that guide or control our daily lives, that force us into behaviors that taken together make our lives very much less than they could or should be in these modern times, and that enable the true rulers of our pretend democracies to continue ruling unchallenged in any meaningful way. Lies that cause all of our major problems, financial, security, international, etc at both personal and societal levels, problems which could be easily almost entirely eradicated if our lives were ordered by a truthful assessment and analysis of our situation and how to govern our country with those things in mind to make things better, lies that create divisions among us where Truth and Honesty would encourage and foster mutual support and togetherness, lies that lead to meanness and competition for 'scarce' resources that need not be scarce at all in our wildly abundant world, and etc.

I'm not going to go into these at great length and detailed analysis, as either anyone reading this is pretty much aware of these things already, or you're not ready to challenge these lies we all live under, and the first group need no convincing, the 2nd group following their leaders aren't going to be changed. I just want to name them and briefly outline them, to put them on the table of things it is of first order importance we talk about when we get out into the community to meet our fellow citizens with the Democratic Discussions as we engage in this struggle to cast off the chains and work for a true Democracy, exposing these lies being a central part of the strategy we are going to need to employ to try to create a critical mass of 'enlightened citizens' to lead the fight to actually establish a functioning democracy here, which will centrally involve exposing these lies to the people who might be angry and worried enough about our current situation to get active in trying to do something meaningful to challenge our rulers and take back our democracy. I'll just give the basic truths these lies are concealing, and provide some links for more reading as part of the 'what to do' section - doing the reflecting to see the truths here, and the lies they expose, is up to every individual who wishes to live in a true democracy founded on the rocks of Truth and Honesty.

The Three Lies Controlling us Every Day

1. The money lie

This is the central and most important lie, the lie which allows those who would be our Kings to be our Kings, the very source of their power. What they really don't want people knowing, what would have to be fatal to them - the reason our economy (all western economies to a lesser or usually greater extent) - is as unstable as it is, rocking in a sea of uncertainty of various fluctuations and systemic inflation and regular recessions/depressions that 'we' seem to have no control over but are always threatening, always causing ongoing and increasing hardships for all normal people - is

-- the Cdn money/credit system, the 'oil' which lubricates the entire economy, is controlled not by 'our' government as it should or must be in a 'sovereign' democracy with the objective of creating a stable economy for all of us (and they generally pretend or encourage the belief that it is), but is actually controlled by a private banking cartel, part of a much larger worldwide banking cartel, which uses that control to manipulate various aspects of the economy to make them ever richer and more powerful and, more importantly of course, 'we proles' (most of us normal working people types, the prole managerial 'professional' class is usually ok, they are well looked after by the system so are very disinclined to rock the boat, as it were) always and increasingly financially stressed and becoming poorer, basically powerless in 'our' 'democracy in name only' to do anything about anything involving economic management.

Yes, theoretically of course 'the government' has the power to regulate this banking cartel, but then when you have basically a bottomless pit of money from your control of the money/credit supply as explained in the references below, you just ensure that 'for sale' politicians get elected to high places (money and media control), and then order their services as required. Nothing at all new or unusual about that in a capitalist world where everything, most importantly ambitious, readily-corruptible politicians and many other ambitious, morals/ethics-unencumbered people, is for sale - nor is there anything unusual that the same people using the same methods buy control of the media so no 'main stream' outlets talk about this great betrayal and fraud, and those (few) who try to talk about it on the internet, which still has some freedom, are dismissed and vilified to the gullible MSM-controlled masses as 'conspiracy theorists' or worse and marginalized to the maximal extent - and currently, as we see all over the west, facing an increasing threat of being completely banned from the internet for saying things the government, or more correctly the true ruling powers behind the scenes, doesn't want said. (Neil Oliver, a popular 'anti-establishment' host on the recent and very good GB News of the UK, has an expose of the control of money and what it means, perhaps some light is starting to shine through on this subject)

The central policy of 'our' governments that has been creating all of our financial problems for the last 50 or so years arises from one of the most important powers of a sovereign government, control of the credit-accounting system of the country, including of course the issuance or creation of credit and control of the credit-expansion or 'money supply' of the country (commonly referred to as 'printing money', which is completely erroneous, as explained again in detail in the refs at the end of this section). An honest, that is to say 'working for the people who elected it' government, would manage these things prudently to ensure a stable money/credit supply and economy with issuance of new credit carefully managed and tied in some realistic way to normal growth, with minimal disruption from boom-bust cycles, inflation, depressions, and etc, all of which are completely unnecessary and harmful to normal people and 'the economy' - while of course a privately owned banking cartel, with the capitalist imperative of maximum profit through milking the public for all they can get away with (aka exploitation), will use their control of the banking system (and media) the same way, managing things like inflation and depression (all easily controllable by how much 'credit' is injected into or withheld from the economy) for their enrichment. And then the fraud becomes criminal betrayal when the government, which of course at any time could create its own credit, goes to the 'private sector', commercial banks or other sources, and 'borrows' credit created by the banking cartel, at compounding interest!!!!!!!!!, it could as easily create itself through a national bank debt and interest free, thus incurring ever greater and completely needless and fraudulent 'national debts' with ever greater 'compound interest', which it informs the citizens must take top priority in the national budget - and then criminal betrayal upon criminal betrayal using this as an excuse to introduce 'austerity' measures meaning services the public expects from the government they have paid for with their taxes 'must' be reduced to meet the almighty debt, etc etc etc. All lies and fraud, a competently managed, honest national government would never 'borrow' from 'the private sector', and 'sovereign debt' should be as unthinkable as a business taking out a high-interest loan when they have sufficient funds on hand to cover the expense. And with dishonest and corrupt politicians all through the top levels of every government, procurement corruption and the attendant waste accounts for further untold tens and hundreds of billions of dollars every year also.

And imagine the personal aspect - a government controlled credit system would issue qualifying consumer loans without interest, only a nominal service charge (no justification at all for charging interest on credit simply created out of thin air, as the saying goes) - how much of a saving would that be for every citizen, esp the mortgage-holding ones?? And creating all new 'credit' as interest-bearing loans of course creates systemic inflation, year after year after year, as the entire amount of new credit must be 'serviced' with new loans.

Just imagine the differences in our country with an honest government overseeing an honest credit-accounting system purposed with establishing a secure economy - we'd all be far better off financially without the compound-interest debts eating at our earnings (and the attendant worries), with lower taxes as we wouldn't be paying off massive fraudulent government debts, far better services in every way with honest politicians devoted to providing such services rather than incompetent corrupt politicians having as their first priority scrambling for their share of the corrupt bribes, far better medical services with doctors charged with just that instead of cutting as much as possible for 'austerity' (required to 'pay down' the (totally fraudulent) debt, basically no inflation, which is all due to the entire money/credit supply being created as interest-bearing debt and the issuance of vast amounts of credit for nothing more than speculation, and etc etc etc - many, many other benefits.

But first we have to understand the great institutionalized grift of the money system - all citizens need to be aware of this great lie, and stand tall and say 'This stops now!!!!' Fortunately, as with most fraud schemes, it's not rocket science we're talking about here and not difficult to understand once the wool is lifted from the eyes, the primary barrier is getting over the 'but we trust our government!!!' lies we've all been living under for so long - and that is the entire objective of this Study Guide.

- a lot more detail of the fraud and how it works in many places - Pseudo Debt Chains, What Happened? - and of course many other places around the net, I just include these as they explain things the way I think things should be explained -

- an excellent documentary on how the bankers got control of anything from a few years ago, but still very very relevant, things every democratic-enabled citizen really needs to know - The Money Masters by Bill Still, or something similar, much more condensed, Banking, the greattest scam on earth -

2 The 'democracy' lie

Our current system is kind of 'democracy for dummies' - or 'for children' if you want to be more kind, like they have 'democratic elections' in high school for the 'school council' which can decide what colors the school sports teams wear or what band to have for the annual prom, but they're not allowed anywhere near the important stuff about running the high school (and they have to operate within known limits about what they can do about sports teams and dances, etc) - and our current notion of 'democracy' is pretty much the same - we 'elect' a government every few years which can do a lot of stuff, but 'we the people' get no say at all about important things like the national budget or international treaties or going to war or deciding whether to declare bills of rights of no further effect there's going to be a national lockdown and you're all going to wear masks when you leave home and get some medical treatment whether you want it or not, and etc etc.

Bill Dore and an amusing expose of 'democracy'

They have most people believing that 'democracy' means in full that there will be an 'election' every few years in which all the people in the country over 18 will be allowed to select between two or three 'parties', and there will be great and colorful 'debates' about which party makes better promises or has better suits, and pundits all over the media railing for or against one or other of the parties or 'leaders', and then 'the people' 'democratically!!!' vote for their favorite party, which will then be 'in power' until they decide to have another election. Between these elections, the chosen party will essentially do as they want to the country, about which 'the citizens' will have no say whatsoever - they can break all the promises they made that convinced people to vote for them, they can break out 'new policies' that they never talked about and nobody wants except the party in power, they can raise their salaries and take away things the 'charter-protected' citizens thought they had a right to, they can do whatever the hell they want and there's not a sweet damn thing 'the electorate' can do about it (as covid must have made blisteringly clear to any who had any doubts about that unlimited power) - but this is Democracy!!! because they were 'elected' after all!!! - And of course (haha) 'the all powerful voters!!! can elect somebody else some time in the future when they decide to call another election!!' - which is pretty pointless, a country can be entirely destroyed in 5 years through policies almost nobody supports - so that's a pretty paltry excuse and clearly has nothing to do with 'democracy' as 'the will of the people'.

How anyone can accept this farce as 'democracy', 'government of, by and for the people' is a bit of a mystery, at least to anyone who can formulate questions on their own - but it is again compelling evidence of the massive power of the people who control what we read and think, if they promote something from a basically full-spectrum 24/7/365/decade-after-decade platform, most people are going to be swept into that 'world'.

There's just no question about Canada being a 'democracy' any longer, it's clearly a pretend democracy, and it's quite puzzling that so few people seem to clearly understand this, who have the strength of brain and character to stand up and call out the lies - the game is clearly something like - you children can have the illusion of running things through your 'elected' politicians, but if we, some higher unnamed but clearly present power, want to take control at any time for any reason, then we'll do so, and no back talk, or *our* enforcers, to serve and protect we higher power, will deal with you. As we did with the truckers' convoy recently, not to mention the whole covid thing - I think you all got the message there about how 'real' your 'democracy' was, esp with the frozen bank accounts etc at the end. Not to mention your much-vaunted 'charter of rights' (not! lol!!!), or the 'protection' it and your courts would give you from government overreach (none lol!!)(suckers).

So - the only question now is - do 'we' citizens of this pretend democracy want to accept this arrangement going on, trusting our 'leaders' to continue managing the country - well, I was going to say 'reasonably competently', but that's obviously a considerable exaggeration - to continue managing the country in an increasingly incompetent and openly 'we're not even going to pretend in 'democracy' anymore' manner, clearly aiming to have Canada be a poster child for the WEF's 'reset', which will include continual monitoring of every citizen through their 'smart' phones, a cashless society for even more control, and evidently planning to turn our, sorry 'our', country over to the WHO any time it declares a new 'pandemic', and etc??????? (Neil Oliver's excellent response to this- and The Daily Skeptic The Biggest Global Power Grab We Have Seen in our Lifetimes) - or do we maybe think it's time to heed the wise words of some people to the south of us 250 years ago, about when a government becomes clearly unresponsive to the needs and desires of the people, those people have a right, nay even an obligation, to see about creating a 'more perfect union'?? - I know what my answer is, and I think a lot of others as well. So our job is to create a plan for that more perfect union that some critical mass of people will agree with and find plausible and doable, and say enough is enough to mr wannabe dictator trudeau and his masters.

Democracy for Cows - it's what we have - the cows can 'vote' for whatever farmer they want, Farmer Sue may (or may not) give them a bit more hay some days, or even a cleaner barn, but all the farmers are going to keep them in the barn (maybe a bit of field play some days oh joy wonderful enlightened farmer!!), milk em every day for all they can get, lie incessantly about better pastures next year!!! and send em to the slaughterhouse when they're of no further use. But as long as the cows all believe this is Democracy!!!!!!!!!!! and not fucking communism, I guess they'll be happy.

(and about the 'ok, we're having problems a bit but it's better than chaos, and it should self-correct' - some comments in the 'creating democratic institutions' section about the 'reality is somewhat less than the theory' applicability of this notion (spread by the rulers of course and perpetuated by their state media - about which - but while I work on this, a story from the National Post - The health system is bad now. It's going to get a lot worse — and here's why) - there is nothing 'organic' about what is happening in Canada, and all over the world - the 'almost getting there democracies' established by our much smarter and more courageous (and less susceptible to official lying) ancestors are being dismantled by the current 'we ARE going to rule the fucking world and there's not a sweet fucking thing you pacified peasants can do about it!!!' megalomaniacs. Canada is a very wealthy country, and we have (still) a lot of very very smart people - we could have a fully free world class health care system - if they weren't intentionally shutting it down. This has nothing at all to do with aging, and everything to do with the fucking capitalists skimming more and more every year, and leaving 'we the people' to fight over crumbs.)

- another late addition - the 'slippery slope' is very near becoming a one-way ice sheet - Civil rights group outraged after Canadian province looks to introduce ‘unexplained wealth’ seizure law - I mean, fuck your stupid charter, fuck legal process - we can do what we want, bud. Do we really accept this?????

3. The 'great free media' lie

Once again, anyone who honestly examines the current situation cannot even pretend we have a fair media, honestly presenting the important events of the day with some balanced commentary - media servitude to 'the deep state' has been going on for decades (evil commies, US atrocities all over the world covered up, propaganda about whatever they want to propagandize about, lies about the economy, etc etc), but the last few years have seen a major escalation of the full politicization of the media, with completely one-sided demonisation of Donald Trump, all western English mainstream media acting in concert to cover up a blatantly stolen election and supporting obviously content-free 'impeachments', not to mention lying about a clearly incapable 'president' and his family's clear crimes, then a completely one-sided fear-propaganda and lies lies lies narrative of covid, and then throughout 2022 a completely one-sided propaganda push telling everyone Ukraine was wonderful and Russia a monster - all in the area of 99% lies and with complete refusal to allow criticism of any of these things. And the people running the media clearly have to understand the money lie(s), as it is a central part of their collective job to make sure Canadians continue to believe all these lies, this matrix constructed on lies, most importantly ensuring noone ever talks about where all the 'money' comes from in the first place or the great democracy-nullifying practice of allowing a private banking cartel to control the issuance of credit, and charging 'interest' on credit created out of thin air, and they do that all very well, and also propagating rather than exposing the various other major lies we live under - and pushing endless 'great issues of the day'!!!! to prevent people from thinking about what they should be thinking about. One of our main tasks moving forward will be creating an honest Cdn media, in a huge complex modern world we do need timely and accurate information about what is going on, with a variety of commentary from informed people with different POVs, it is completely impossible to run anything optimally or even well when you don't have accurate information with insightful **honest** commentary - it is absolutely essential that we have a media - like the CBC or BBC or NPR of the post-WWII years - that we can generally trust to present what is actually of interest going on in our countries and the world without spin or manipulation - and then an array of intelligent 'pundits' speaking from various perspectives about how they think the information should be interpreted, but without the current lies which infuse almost all such commentary.

- again, there is a massive amount of commentary on this available on the net, from people who are truly concerned about this - including a couple of my own - ** Notes on the Creation of the Canadian Narrative The Canadian Media and the 2008 Election: Reporting or Managing? ** As goes Democracy, so goes Journalism ... as goes Journalism, so goes Democracy - recent example of how Cdn media treat a real journalist - Canadian Journalist on Ukraine kill list - the CBC of course, like every other mainstream outlet, is fully in psychotic lying 'hatehatehate Russia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' mode

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So those are the 3 major lies that keep us pretty much in check daily, most of us, as we rush around in our daily lives in the capitalist rat race without much time to stand back and talk with neighbors or ponder ourselves the truth or otherwise of any of them, and it's a very very effective cage, as we're indocrinated in these beliefs from childhood, through the education system, and as adults through the media and peer pressure from fellow citizens completely under the control of the media lies, fellow citizens and fellow workers and neighbors and people we see regularly who we want to keep as friends etc so are inclined just to accept the 'common beliefs' we all share about our society.

But those are not all of the lies we live under, not at all, and underlying them is an even more encompassing and perverse set of lies - the conglomeration of lies concerning capitalism and socialism, and the essential right-left divide in our western societies - lies which have most of us believing that the rulers and their chains are our friends, and those who would give us a much better life our enemies to be shunned. So let us carry on to -

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What it's about, By Way of Intro: A curious question, 1. Basic Democratic Building Blocks 1 - the Democratic Citizen, 2. Basic Democratic Building Blocks 2 - the Democratic Framework, 3. Creating or Awakening the Democratic Citizen, 4. The Ways of Power, 5. And in the end ...., A1. Basic Democratic Process, A2. Basic Democratic Economy, A3a. Big Lies 1 - Democracy, Media, Money, A3b. Big Lies 2 - Wonderful Capitalists!! EVIL!!!! Commies!!, A3c. Big Lies 3 - Pure evil indeed - but who???, A3d. One lie to rule them all, one lie to bind them