Vote the Bums Out

The following letter appeared in the Aiken Standard on May 22nd. I have posted it for those who may not have seen  it.

LETTER: Vote the bums out of office

Many of the letters to the editor are from uncritical unthinking sycophants of the politicians. Those letters repeat the political lies and they show no evidence that there was any thought put into the premises of the lies. I urge your readers to question the truth and the basis for everything that is said by officeholders and those seeking office as well as their minions.
It is a sad fact that no elected official considers the rights to life, liberty and property to be anything but abstractions to be circumvented when necessary. Their overwhelming motivation is the exercise of power over others and preservation of that power. In our society that was set up to be classless, they are the ruling class and the rest of us are the paying class. They have enslaved us in a new feudalism.

In our elections, we hold our noses and select a person to hold office from a generally obnoxious list of do-gooders and people who think their superior judgment and intellect gives them the right to take our property and dictate our choices. We are told to affiliate with tribal labels and then mentally stifled. Everything the rulers of our tribe advocate is unquestioningly good, and all who adhere to the other tribe are evil and need to be subjugated. The winners of these elections mistake our reluctant choices for acclamation and validation.
To disabuse them, the only thing we can do besides vociferously complaining is to vote them out in the next election. The lure of power is so strong there will never be a lack of candidates. If we "throw the bums out" every time, we may teach the rulers some humility and we will keep them from getting entrenched.

Victor Fricke