To Govern

Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism isn't a great film. It's not shot very well, it comes across as extremely one-sided and pushy, and the editing leaves you with an uneasy feeling that things are not in the context they should be in. But you want to trust the film maker's sincerity. This was a film that he truly believed needed to be made and shown to the public. So as he was dieing from cancer of the bladder, he did just that. America: Freedom to Fascism was made by a man with nothing to lose, and it shows. (Full film on Google.)

The film is full of conspiracies involving a group of elite bankers. This is nothing new. The idea of an international banking conspiracy is centuries old. All such conspiracy theories must be taken with a grain of salt no matter how well documented. But two particulars really caught my attention.

After an entire film of documenting the evils of the Federal Reserve, the illegality of the federal income tax, how the government wants to implant identification chips in everyone, and how electronic voting machines can be used to rig elections, I was ready for his list of 'what to do about it'. Ironically he suggests you only support politicians who pledge to do away with the Federal Reserve system. If all he says is true, what good is it to vote in a rigged election for anyone? Which totally works in my favor because if I lose I can claim that the election was rigged against me. With no paper trail nobody can prove me wrong. Hurray for electronic voting machines!

What really stood out were the political comparisons. Often people being interviewed or Russo himself would say, "That's not America. That's Fascism!" or "That's not what the founding fathers intended. That's Communism!" Over and over again. That's Fascism. That's Communism. Communism, Fascism. As I recall, the Communists and the Fascists were fundamentally opposed political systems. In the Spanish Revolution it was the Communists and Anarchists fighting against the Fascists. And in World War II the Communists were our allies against the Fascists. How could our current government be compared to both the Communists and the Fascists simultaneously?

What do the Communists and the Fascists have in common that is also true of America's political system? Once it hit me, the answer seemed incredibly obvious. All of them are governments. The role of government is to govern.

to govern

1. (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
2. (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
   Govern yourselves like civilized people.
   a student who could not govern his impulses.
3. (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
   Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.
4. (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
   a valve that governs fuel intake.
5. (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
6. (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.

It doesn't matter if you are talking about Communists, Fascists, Republics, Democracies, Theocracies, Juntas, Oligarchies, Aristocracies, or even Meritocracies. The role of Government is to govern. Under all of the above definitions that means control.

Which is why I am proud to be an Anarchist candidate. In this rigged election that I am destined to lose through no fault of my own I swear to do everything in my power to put all government out of a job. That includes my own job as President. I ask of you, the American people, can you handle that? Can you handle true freedom? Are you ready to take full responsibility for yourself and your actions? Are you ready to cast off the systems of control known as Government?

There are other options.

Political scientists at the Cato Institute announced Monday that they have inadvertently synthesized a previously theoretical form of government known as megalocracy.

"We were attempting to recreate a military junta in a controlled diplomatic setting, and we applied too much external pressure," said head researcher Dr. Adam Stogsdill, a leading expert in highly reactionary ruling systems. "The resultant government has the ruthless qualities of a dictatorship combined with the class solidarity of a plutocracy—it's quite a remarkable find."