A Victory for Democracy

The election in Brazil is universally hailed as a victory for democracy. Just about everyone that's asked to comment on the election result will mention this, often as the single most important thing about the election, as if the ousting of Bolsonaro was some kind of great return to democracy after decades of dictatorship.

I find this curious. It's almost as if everyone has been given a script to read from. Besides, there was something fishy about the results coming in at above 55% in favour of Bolsonaro at the very beginning of their counting, only to be gradually turned into a narrow loss. It was not quite as odd as when Biden ended up the most popular president ever, with more vote than Obama ever had, but the numbers that came in looked fishy. There was something too smooth and managed about them.

However, none of this matters. Liberty is not won at the ballot box. It's grown organically through the network and the severing of ties with the state. When we take control of our own lives, and apply foresight and will to our destiny, we become free. Everything else is but an illusion of freedom where the power-hungry tie us down with their chains of dependence on their various welfare schemes.

Stolen elections may even be good in the end. When it becomes obvious that politicians are nothing but crooks, hellbent on power, people realize that they cannot trust them. This will make people seek alternatives, which they will find among the liberty minded in their own communities.

The laws of economy kick in. When the elite bases its power on a diminishing base of support, their exploitations become all the more glaring. We get inflation and a radical move of wealth away from ordinary people and into the hands of well-connected corporations and individuals. The whole economy gets skewed towards the production of weapons and drugs, and away from healthy living.

In the end, it becomes obvious that only those who manage to disconnect form the system have any chance of getting through the ensuing collapse without great loss.

The social contract