As Americans, we continuously take pride in having the ability to vote for our president. After all, we are a democracy… right?
Given the definition, a democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. But what happens when those representatives are thrusted into power because of their last name and not because of their credentials? A scientific study from Cambridge University shows that America isn’t all that it says to be — we’re actually a modern day oligarchy.
Their analysis concludes that the government is made up of economic elites and organized groups representing business interests, and that these powerful groups have a large independent impact that weigh in heavy on U.S. policy while mass citizen-based groups and organizations have little to no influence.
“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” — Mayer Rothschild
This puts the wealthy and well connected at the center of our political system; an oligarchy is a system where only a small group of people, particularly the rich and powerful, are put into power, and, you guessed it — they’re elected by other rich and powerful individuals that would like to see the cycle continue. An extensive example of this is found within the Rothschild name. The Rothschilds are the wealthiest family in the world, have a net worth of over $700 trillion (divided amongst their descendants), an extensive involvement in U.S history (in regards to banking), and a hell of a lot of influence in regards to politics all over the world. Pictured above, both Clintons stand with Sir Evelyn Rothschild and Lynn Rothschild — a creepy innuendo given that Hillary is running for president.
How can these people have such influence if we vote, you ask? Simple. Our votes don’t count. This is prominent within the 2000 presidential election between Al Gore and George W. Bush — Although Gore received more popular votes, about 540,000 more than Bush nationally, or about 0.5 percent of all votes cast across the country, Bush had 271 electoral college votes, making him the president of the United States.
So how does the Electoral College work? Let’s break it down. Congress is composed of 435 members in the House of Representatives and 100 members in the Senate. Each of these elected officials represents 1 vote in the Electoral College, plus Washington D.C. gets 3 (1 for the House and 2 for the Senate). That’s a total of 538 electoral votes available. One half of 538 is 269. One more than half is 270, or the number of votes necessary to become President.
But the Electoral College isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Given the fact that the average American can’t decipher foreign policies and follow every single move each individual in power makes, the Electoral College was put together to form an “educated” and “higher” vote than our own — so women don’t turn over the majority of the winning vote towards Hillary just because she’s a woman, and so racists make up the majority of the winning vote for Trump just because they’re in favor of his discriminatory immigration policy. The Electoral College is meant to bring their higher knowledge of politics into their votes, so we would have the most beneficial candidate given our time period, and our issues. The Electoral College was meant to bring balance, but due to lobbyists and that same group of elites that I spoke about before, not everyone on the Electoral College is voting out of the sincerity of their hearts.
Since our votes are casted for more fun statistical reasons rather than for the actual election, it doesn’t matter whether or not you vote. Sorry Dwayne Johnson, Katy Perry and all the other celebrities pushing our youth to vote — it won’t count, and neither will your vote, unless your a part of the electoral college, or the economic elite.
