capitalism stumbles from one crisis to the next, and against this backdrop every election is taken for a mortal struggle

but the perpetrators of the crisis are never at risk, so it is us, those consumed already by toil and debt, who are implored to surrender our principles too

the irony is that the bourgeoisie are too few to be electorally decisive, no one could ever claim that securing their interests depends on their votes, yet they have all the power

the great laboring masses are the only rational target for the electoral imposition, yet have none

what else then is the purpose of this exercise except for the psychological domination it implies? you are, oxymoronically, obliged to consent to governance you despise and which despises you in turn

none of the options represent you, but you are cajoled, guilted, terrorized

this mirrors exactly the false freedoms of the market, the illusion of choice among products at the supermarket, the fictional voluntarism of relations with your employer or landlord or mortgage or insurance company

the fact is all this is imposed on you, but you do have Options

like rats running around a massive and circuitous maze without exit, we are presented with one intersection after another, we may choose which way to turn and are taught that this means we are free, but, of course, these choices are of no consequence, none can lead us Out