"Vote Early, Vote Often" was a slogan that I heard as a child growing up in Chicago. And it was not just a slogan, it was a call to arms of the "Democratic Party Machine" every election day. I remember well my childhood friends, who's fathers or mothers worked for the city, telling me how their parent would be given multiple ID's so they could vote multiple times. Who did they vote for??? For Democrat candidates that the "party bosses" told them to vote for of course. That's how you kept your job. Patronage is King in Chicago. Everyone in or from Chicago knows it, it's just the way things are done. You want a job with the city, you have to know somebody and you have to bring in money and votes. The "Machine" feeds on money and votes and it controls everything through government agencies. Want a building permit approved? Grease the right hand and you move to the front of line to get yours approved. That's the way of "Big Government", it's all about control and control guarantees power and money.
Let me give you an example of how the "Democratic Party Machine" works in Chicago. In Chicago, you had 4 men on a garbage truck collecting the trash throughout the neighborhoods decades after other cities had gone to the automated systems where one man (the driver) would drive and collect the trash with no other assistance. So, was Chicago unable to get the same systems other cities used??? No, it wasn't that. They kept the old system because 4 men on a truck meant 4 votes that the "Machine" controlled, and not just those 4 votes, they controlled the votes of those men's families. Want to keep your job? Then you, your spouse and your voting age children better all vote to keep the "Machine" (Democratic Party) candidates in office.
Understand this; government is a parasite. It lives off the sweat and toil of the people. It creates no revenue for itself, it has to extract that from those of us who produce revenue. To survive and grow, it needs to suck more and more from us, the workers and producers of society. Want to move up in a government job? Then you must expand the number of people using or dependent on the services of your department or agency. The more non-government people dependent on your services, i.e. food stamp, housing, childcare recipients etc. the more people your department or agency will need and therefore the opportunity to advance to a management position will increase. Now to pay for that added staff and management, more money will have to be extracted from the pockets of the producers. That's right, those who don't work for the government. (you and me.) And those who are recipients of those handouts are told that they better vote for the "right party" or they could have those handouts taken away from them. So now you see how government control of handouts leads to control of votes, that leads to more government growth, that leads to more need for money that leads to more money being sucked from the pockets of the producers and so it goes ... on and on and on till the "government parasite" has killed it's host. (The collapse of the former Soviet Union is a prime example.)
Now in our country the pool of parasites and government workers continues to grow every year. Their self serving votes going to the party and candidates that promise them the most handouts. They don't realize that with every vote and every passing year the ruling party grows stronger and has more and more control over the basic needs of more and more of the population until they reach the magic number of majority, 51%. When 51% of the population is dependent on the government for it's job or it's life sustaining needs ... they OWN YOU and they will just eliminate free elections altogether. Complain and they will just take away your job, food, or housing. Think the police or army will come to your rescue? They have a government job and to keep it and to provide food and shelter for their family, they will gun you down in the street. Then those fools who took the handout of the bowl of gruel in exchange for their vote find themselves powerless to do anything when their handouts are now taken away. Welcome to serfdom. Serfdom that YOU voted for. So vote early but think before you vote.
I.M Whamm, let those with wisdom hear.
