By: David Palsman

Talking to a Communist friend of mine—though we usually disagree on most things political—he pointed out something that I hadn’t thought about before: maybe we should elect a fundamentalist right-wing Republican as the next President. Not for the sake of saving our country, but to jumpstart a revolution. While a Communist revolution sounds outdated and egregious on multiple levels, I can certainly see where it would be necessary to make the unfortunate sacrifice of electing a populist into the White House in order to cut the bullshit. As a person who believes that Noam Chomsky probably has theorized, or summed up what’s already been theorized, best, in that you need an anarchist revolution to bring down a system of concentrated power and then a democracy established to give people back their freedom—and not an Ancient Greek democracy where only rich, white males get a vote, but an all-out democracy where the people literally constitute the government and define the meaning and use of said government by their own needs as a collective force—in order to achieve such a stage would require a revolution of some sort. And Communist or Socialism occupies an extreme force of idealism that would only be replacing the fundamental idealism that we’re witnessing in the Republican and Tea Party as of right now; not any better, just more sanctimonious (perhaps).

It’s starting to look like a legitimate reality that Michelle Bachmann or Rick Perry or even Mitt Romney could win against a president that has, for the past four years, incited much vitriolic, heated rhetoric that side with human nature’s penchant for unreasonableness. All three Republican potentials have sacrificed whatever personal ideals and principles that they might have had a few years ago in order to cater to a more fundamental constituency that doesn’t believe in Global Climate Change, thinks most wars are justifiable when America is fighting them, doesn’t much care that every product they buy from stores like Walmart means that someone in a third world country is being abused and exploited so they can live their ridiculously pampered life, and generally disbelieves anything scientific for a more Medieval, geocentric, Biblical, pseudo-reasonable explanation of how the world operates. All three candidates are vying for these types of people’s vote.

But to say that a government under the leadership of a Democrat of any sort is intellectual dishonesty. For all forms of concentrated power have never worked, historically or socially, for very long before exploitation, enslavement, and idiocy became the lay of the land. Add in a little bit of jingoistic imperialism, and you got yourself a concoction doomed to fail several hundred years later. A Democrat form of government has not worked in solving all the problems a Republican form of government creates, and thus it is time we start actively electing officials that will steer us into the inevitable direction of revolution.

Perhaps it won’t be a bloody revolution, but that’s doubtful. A country populated with people willing to carry fearful posters with Obama casted as Hitler (a correlation that never made sense whatsoever) just over health care is a country that is beyond any form of redemption or salvation—and I mean those terms in the most secular way possible. Revolution is what most social philosophers have turned to in times where to logically follow any line of thought on public policy necessitates either the destruction of that system or enslavement to it. If we just elect Obama again, who has done a great job at putting bandaids over many of the problems, we will be enslaved to the constancy of fighting over government or corporate rule (Democrat or Republican), which are interchangeable when reduced to an operational and motivational level. They each want power and both systems are willing to flex their proverbial muscles in order to achieve it.

If we elect one of the primary three candidates for the Republican side, they will start the movement towards revolution, to ultimately solving the problem: concentrated power. How? Simply put, they will, as Marx commented on capitalism, self-destruct based on its flawed ideologies and perverted sense of reasoning. And while it may take a few years, or several generations, a revolution will be the inevitable outcome of America’s direction. An abuse of power here, a little tyranny and overzealousness there, and before we know it, the country’s people are railing against its government and corporations for what they’ve turned into—what they are: masters to our slaves. There can be no compromise with a system that’s polarizes and thus highlights its insufficiency to rule. Rather than complain and jerk off and ultimately elect a replication drone of what we’ve been doing, perhaps it’s time for civic action by the people, for the people to take back a government that exists merely to serve its own purposes and not that of its people.

Aristophanes recognized the path of his beloved Athens in the Peloponnesian War when it had become too imperialistic for its own good, and he was right. We are the historical facsimile that copy-and-pasted many principles of our foundation on Ancient Athenian thought, and in many ways resemble Ancient Rome and England’s imperialism as well, all of which establish the precedence of our future. Isn’t it time we had a real democracy? Isn’t it time we elect the wrong candidate for the right reasons? It’s entirely necessary to make concessions for the purpose of bringing forth a new age in how society conducts itself. No longer based on idiotic and empty rhetoric, but the practical application of the people’s collective will acting in accordance to the people’s need. Anarchy and revolution are then the medicine to bring about the cure: democracy.