Want Democracy? Vote for the Market, not Politicians.

I'm stirred up by all the people looking forward to independent candidates in the 2012 election, and their illusion that things will change "if we just get the right person into office". Politics is like spinning your wheels in the mud. Only freedom can save humankind. Politicians, leave us alone.

There are two types of people in the world; those who just want to be left alone, and those who just won't leave others alone.

The Free Market turns greed-mongers and parasites into Servants of their Customer. They are forced into doing noble and heroic deeds.

Politics does just the opposite; It gives greed-mongers and parasites the levers of power to run everyone's life and reach into everyone's wallet to pay for it all. We end up with an ever-growing Warfare / Welfare State.

There is no responsibility in politics like there must be in the marketplace. Politicians spend other people's money and wreck other people lives. Why should they keep any pledges or oaths? The nature of the system doesn't change when Independents are elected. The political system has no responsibility like the marketplace has.

Tea-Partiers say things like "Go directly to the public" or "Get an Independent Candidate who will make a Pledge". WTF! How does that get enforced in politics? It doesn't. You wait years until the next election to change anything. In the Market, you are DIRECTLY pledged to the public, because the day you break your pledge as a producer or service provider is the day you close the doors of your business. The best pledge-keepers are found in the marketplace.

Politicians, on the other hand, don't have to kiss anyone's butt if they don't want to, ... not even their biggest contributors. They don't have to follow the "words on paper" that is the Constitution. There's no enforcement as there is in the marketplace. No direct payment or loss for actions, as there is in the marketplace. Politicians can break every pledge, and they are still "entitled" to keep their position of power until their term runs out (with cushy benefits and retirement packages). Yes, there is the option of recall or impeachment, but how often does that happen. And why should we have to go through the trouble of "recalling". The marketplace has a better way; consumers simply turn their backs on an unscrupulous or stupid businessman, and their business goes "bye bye" within days.

Politics makes a crude attempt at predicting market needs, but they are too slow, too narrow-minded, too destructive of innovation, too stuck in "One-Size-Fits-All" mentality, too indebted to their campaign contributers, too worried about the latest opinion polls, and on and on. Politics cannot do anything to "help" Business and Trade.

I would even argue that courts, police, national defense, and private home defense would all be cheaper and better in a free market. My argument is common sense; Government Monopoly causes a never-ending rise in prices and a never-ending fall in quality and innovation. Government is the ultimate monopoly.

True "Independence" and "Democracy" is enabled in The Free Market. Some Anti-State Voluntaryists are starting to call it "The Peaceful Market" because it is the marketplace where no one is forced to buy or sell something they don't want to buy or sell. People have been taught to fear the words "Free Market", but all it means is people peacefully and freely associating with whomever they please.

I'm for anything that's peaceful. That rules out all politics.