RECENT INSANE BUT DEMOCRATIC DECISIONS

(If one has time for only facts and not philosophy, just skip to the list: that's fine.)

First of all, when I say "recent" I'm speaking in historical terms; I'm not of the popular opinion that history past ten years is unlikely to make one money and so irrelevant. The facts I give here are real and easily confirmable through neutral academic sources: really, try it.
The point of this essay is that one-person one-vote democracy is an irrational and insincere political system that has already led to much terrible disaster. By its very nature it's easily manipulated by clever people, some of whom are positively insane or even "evil."
I have no hidden agenda: I don't believe in socialism and even less in "national socialism," don't crave a victory for American conservatives, liberals, or libertarians. I don't subscribe to any well-known school of thought or politics. I'm no hater of Barak Obama; Actually, I'm highly sympathetic with the African American race and admire his courage, though not his intellect or politics to the point I'd ever have him nearly so high up.
These decisions were not made by a conspiracy theory mafia, Freemasons, "world jewry," or by some group of communistic or aristocratic generals. These decisions were made by free and often overwhelming votes of the American people. There were open public debates, magazine articles with pros and cons. It didn't matter: the vast majority of Americans are not capable of reason: the world was created in 7 days and Jesus was a Marine Sniper.
Here's the list:

1.) The decision, approved by the Truman Administration, to let that megalomaniac Gen. MacArthur bomb the Yalu bridges, locking the Chinese into the Korean war and pointlessly condemning tens-of-thousands of U.S. soldiers. Nor, even amid all the gore and disaster that followed, was MacArthur quickly removed from command; When he was, it was a great political struggle and he was met with parades and gushing Republican politicians.

2.) The democratic decision to wage war on the people of Northern Vietnam. As the C.I.A. itself has now admitted(through the release of formerly classified papers,) nobody but the Vietcong ever had any chance of winning any election in any part of Vietnam at the time. However nonsensical and degenerate communist theory may be, it didn't justify dropping more bombs on that nation than were dropped on all of Europe during WWII!! Nor does it justify all the maimed and oft neglected American vets.

3.) The democratic decision to elect George W. Bush to the presidency itself. I wouldn't repeat what we've seen and heard so many times, except that I want it to be viewed in terms of the merits of democracy itself. A near majority of the American people twice thought a man should be president who constantly made an illiterate mockery of our language, who authorized the decision to stop distributing birth-control world-wide for religious reasons, whose life history included neither any proof of remarkable intelligence or solid leadership ability, who launched a large-scale war by convincing the American public Iraq was allied with Al Qaeda when in fact it was probably less so than any other Arabic nation.
Needless to say this mass deception wasn't mostly carried out by Georgie Boy: it was done cynically with the backing of the political establishment, Democratic and Republican, and the following hearty approval of the public, which re-elected him even as the war descended into a desert quagmire. But when they needed a scapegoat, 300 million people and their leaders had been fully hood-winked by say 5 people in the white-house. But, to prevent anarchy, we'll keep the territory and the oil.

4.) The democratic decision to have a higher percent of our population behind bars than any nation with the possible exception of China(they don't release stats.) A large portion of these imprisonments are for drug crimes not directly tied to any other crime. Very high percentages of these prison inmates are racial minorities: over 5 percent of black adults are behind bars, centuries after The Emancipation Proclamation.

5.) The democratic decision to develop the hydrogen bomb, which is worse than regular atom bombs and capable of vaporizing islands, before the U.S.S.R. and against the advice of thinkers and scientists such as Oppenheimer, the creator of the first atom bombs, not to mention the admirable Albert Einstein... Then America, amid rabid flag-waving and McCarthyism, made the decision to create ten times as many as were logically needed provoking the U.S.S.R. to do the same.

6.) The democratic decision, despite much noise and moral discussion, to not investigate or address the widespread, gestapo style torture that took place in Guantanamo Bay.
Just one witness and claimant, with horrible marks on his body, was a British Broadcasting Casting reporter who wouldn't give up his journalistic sources to American intelligence; This barely made the British news but, for some funny reason, not American news. There must have been a squirrel sighting.

7.) The democratic decision to be the only major industrial power to reject The Kyoto Treaty, thus leading to further global warming the hottest global years yet on record. Earlier, when these insipid voters were wearing flowers in their hair, they voted to discontinue nuclear power, causing the problem in the first place.

8.) The democratic decision that, because life is god-given and sacred(and death is bad and created by the devil,) to keep people alive as long as possible under any circumstances. This means that the dignified scholar who gets shot the head and becomes completely retarded must spend 50 years in a foster home drooling. The old woman whose Alzheimer's develops to the point she can't eat is often maintained with feeding tubes for decades until, her brain long dead, she resembles nothing human. And people have to work around this all day.
This is the true mandate of the American people and if you say too loudly that it isn't sane, their pastors will carry out a Terry Schiavo to fire them up, President Obama will come out with born-again indignation, and one of these numerous neanderthals with assault rifles will assassinate you. This is democracy in action.
Me, I believe in evolution, common sense(which is not so common,) and quality of life. "We the people" were not "created equal."

9.) The decision to take a very hard-line with Cuba and assault them in various covert ways, even including inserting chemicals into clouds around the island... to steal their rain. Amazingly, this actually works and I'm sure some Cuban children went hungry because of it.
Again, this is confirmed by multiple C.I.A. documents and isn't disputed by any serious historians.
And, now, when Cuba has opened up, probably out a natural inclination to join the modern world... we're giving them the cold shoulder.

I could give many more examples, but I think I've made my point to anyone who's willing to confirm a few facts and exercise independent reason on this very difficult and sensitive topic. I know many bright and admirable people who aren't ready to.
So what do I suggest? You'll have to look at the other things I've written over the years... realizing that my socialistic views haven't vanished but have transformed. Some of these writings are not available on web-sites like this but were printed as letters-to-the editor of Oregon newspapers and can be found by googling "Sean Lawlor Nelson."
More importantly, there are many brilliant, ethical leaders out there to provide solutions for the future. My personal belief is that a disproportionate number of them can be found in universities and scholarly positions.
I do not call for and would not participate in armed revolt, both because I don't believe it's necessary, and because that's just not my role or nature. I'm a pacifist of sorts. On that note, if one does some research and takes a few simple steps to establish conscientious objector status, the legal tradition solidly exempts one from a draft: the key is to claim opposition to all wars under any circumstances.
I want to make the key point that democracy isn't just not right for the American people: it is, to all logic and reason, an extreme and inferior system for any nation anywhere: think that over 700,000 Iraqis just died for it in the last war.