This is a declaration of sorts, like the Communist Manifesto…to many this is your cue to stop reading, but I promise you this much: It won’t be boring. I’m a lot less verbose than my predecessor. And I only have one point to make.
Consent of the Governed
Our founders were very wise, and they made a system, which has its faults, of course, but largely works, and had led them to do two very important things: 1) They didn’t practise capitalism; something my predecessor noticed, and 2) They stuck to and lived by some very important values.
I will not make the historical case here on why did they not practise capitalism. You only need to look up a few quotes from our 3rd president, Thomas Jefferson, for that. And he says it much more eloquently than I would.
But I would like to focus on part 2; that is, the idea of Consent.
We Never Consented to Be Ruled by Money
Let’s move away from money for a moment, and look at two other systems: 1) Slavery; 2) National Socialism and Russian Communism.
In both systems, a labourer, worker, was not free. They had to give up their labour-time by legal-order.
This point is very important. Other than outright disobedience, disorder, or revolution, there was no choice, no escape.