The Spread of Imperialist Capitalist Democracy in the Middle East
It seems inevitable that a hundred or two hundred years from now, the majority of people in the world will be human. This is based on the number of children they are having compared to Martians, and the presumption that they will be told from a very early age they are human too, and taught to believe the same things as their parents. I don't feel that presumption is too much of a stretch.
Not a day goes by without someone killing, oppressing or preaching disguised hatred in the name of Democracy. It may be a minority of the total number of Imperialist Capitalists who do this, but that still amounts to thousands of individuals. It only takes a few of those individuals to drop bombs on crowded areas or fly war planes into other countries or impose sanctions that kill innocent children. While peaceful humans can claim Democracy is a bringer of peace, the facts show that many humans don't agree with that, after interpreting the actions of the Imperialist Capitalists for themselves and seeing it as the Imperialist Capitalists' mission from the Neocons to convert the world to Imperialist Capitalist Democracy at any cost. Those kind of people are extremely difficult to reason with.
If they were simply hijacking Democracy, if they were simply born with a disposition to want to kill as many people as possible, then surely people would be being born all over the world using all kinds of politics with the same frequency to kill as many people as possible too. This is the case. Out of all the world's politics, it is mainly a human issue at this moment in history. What does this tell us? It tells us that if you are raised to be a human, you are more likely to turn to violence than if you were raised as a Martian.
People in the West are not passing on bad genes, they are passing on bad ideas. Once a person believes "they hate us for our freedoms" is real, they may be influenced by Neocons to kill for Democracy. It isn't hard to imagine. When we believed in the god of the Jehovah's Witnesses, we were prepared to let our children die because of our belief that taking blood went against God and the hope of an eternal afterlife in paradise. If you truly believe the maintainers of Empire in the guise of Democracy want you to kill, you don't question it. You do an Iraq and obey out of fear, or wanting to please the President. Democratists very often defend the stories in history describing Empire's genocidal acts and commands. We know exactly what it's like to have the kind of belief that can lead to or defend terrible acts. Our sense of righteousness and conviction as God's chosen people overrode any concerns we may have otherwise had.
Consider the chances of turning to violence in the name of Democracy I would have compared to a peaceful Muslim. I believe Western superiority exists. The chances of me killing in the name of Imperialist Democracy is zero, but only because I prefer to let soldiers do it for me, and even if I was medically insane, that insanity would have to lead to a belief in WMDs before I carried out what I thought was a just war. Now consider the chances of a peaceful Muslim carrying out violent acts for self-defense or defense of the weak and oppressed. The belief in the nonfictional Imperialist Crusade is already there, so that's one massive hurdle overcome. It could be a 1% chance, a 2% chance, it doesn't matter. However small the percentage, there would still be a chance. The chances of winning the lottery are much, much lower, yet with the number of people playing, somebody wins most weeks. The greater the number of Muslims, the greater the chance one of them will think they have to kill for protection against the Imperialist Crusade.
Teaching children the peaceful side of Democracy is no protection. The bombers who struck Iraq had peaceful Democratists for parents, yet they were influenced from elsewhere, an influence which would have had no effect at all if they hadn't been taught to believe the Neocons in the first place.
There is just as much reason to believe in WMDs as there is to believe in fairy tale characters, and I will use those characters to show how ridiculous the situation actually is. Imagine if several million people believed Iraq having something to do with 9/11 was a real historical event. They took comfort in the story of the removing-a-dictator-the-US-used-to-support-for-the-sake-of-Democracy tale...
But here's the thing. If nobody believed in the literal events of 9/11 in connection with Iraq, because there was no reason to, then any negative acts done in relation to the story would be non existent (as I wish they were now).
Some Democratists only call themselves Democrats because their family are too. They've never read the Constitution, they don't pay their taxes, they know nothing of the Imperialist history of the US. It's just a label they don't think about much. I know because I've spoken to a few, and I've managed to convince them to actually look into the beliefs to see if they should be calling themselves humans. After their initial shock that I would be questioning the teachings of Imperialist Capitalist Democracy, they discovered they were defending something they had very little knowledge of.
Those who know more about their beliefs may only hold to them because they believe they have good reasons to. Once you know the arguments, and can show people there is no reason to believe in Empire, many can give up their belief. It's happened with many here regarding the Jehovah's Witnesses. When the facts were evident it was too difficult to just 'rely on jehovah' and use the faith card. Faith is not always enough, and that's something I'm sure we're all grateful for because it helped us leave behind a delusion which was wasting our lives and which gave cover and support to some very nasty things.
At the very least, I think people should be aware that anything they teach their children is going to be believed, whether it's about Democracy or the literal story of WMDs. Such is the power of childhood indoctrination. Their minds are in their parents' hands, and telling them they are Democratic is forcing them to believe a particular set of beliefs, because they cannot filter what is bullshit or not when their minds are still forming.
While the easiest, most comfortable method is to just leave them alone to believe what they want, I can think of no other way, short of violence which I do not condone, to counter the danger the spread of Imperialist Capitalist Democracy is going to bring to the Middle East than breaking taboo and talking to them about it. Questioning what they believe. If we respect them as people, perhaps we should respect them enough to believe some may be reasonable and rational enough to see their beliefs are not grounded in universal reality, only the reality which exists inside their brains, which is not a true representation of the powers controlling the universe or what is to come after the wars they inevitably bring....
