SNEAKY DEMOCRACY
"The Beautiful Feeling of Democratic Power Has Arrived"
Daniel Celovsky
November 12, 2024
We united over the past while and on November 5th we met up together. Some of us do not even realize it yet. But we did.
Democracy and its power snuck up on us on November 5th. It has been building for a long long time. On November 5th we all came together from coast-to-coast-to-coast and cast our ballots. It took into the early hours of November 6th to realize that democratic power has shifted into the hands of the people. Only then did we realize it was actually there. We had it all along but just didn’t realize it. Sneaky is what this was.
And it tastes sweeter than we even imagined it could be.
We have - finally - moved to the second panel of our Revolution. Things will move much faster now that we are all on the same path. Because now we are walking this together.
Take a close look at the second panel. Our voices are rising. We are standing up. Now more and more of us are rising up. And - the Establishment sees it and is getting very nervous. Us uniting together against them and their agenda is the one thing they did not want to see happen. They fear us getting to panels 3 and 4. Can you smell the fear coming from them? I can.
What follows explores how we got to panel two. We did that last Tuesday (November 5th). And that means we are on our way to panel three and - ultimately - four.
In my opinion this was the most consequential election since 1960. We still have a lot of work to do … but we finally picked up the power of democracy that was sitting at our feet. We have been walking forward for a while now with more and more joining us along the way and we stepped right into panel 2. It snuck up on us!
As we move forward, more and more of our neighbors will join us. The taste of democratic freedom and its power for peace and individual freedom is compelling and contagious. Next step: panel 3 and we all go there together.
Democratic Power Through Ranked Choice Voting
The power of democracy is simply sneaky. I could not see it myself until I actually walked right into it. Given how sneaky it is, I am going to describe what happened through my own experiences this election. From what I have heard from others, many of our experiences are quite similar.
I didn’t even realize what I was doing or how I voted until the day after November 5th. It just sort of evolved. Voting day is not the full extent of democracy. It’s only an event in the process of democracy. Democracy has come alive in 2024. We have been doing democracy most of this past year if not longer.
And it’s beautiful now that I see what happened. The power of democracy is more powerful than the ruling class can contain.
During the election cycle process, I voted using the ranked-choice voting system. Given the choices offered, it was the only viable and prudent choice I had open for consideration. Ranked-choice voting is a process. After all, it forces us to consider all the options. It started by rejecting the status-quo we have.
My first absolute condition was that the status quo has to go. A broken corrupt system has to be rejected. With that foundation, my support unfolded across three choices — in rank order which is what ranked-choice voting requires:
First Choice: Independent/Third Party
Second Choice: Trump-Vance
Third Choice: Stay Home (I 100% believe that not voting is a voting choice)
I had to go through a lot of personal reflection in my consideration. There were a lot of emotional twists-and-turns. But - mostly - I came to realize that whatever choice I landed on had to absolutely reject and ideally change the trajectory we were traveling on.
It had to be a choice that pivoted society itself to move forward (peace & freedom being the factors) while it also sustained my own personal moral standards (peace & freedom again being the factors). This was not an easy balance to find. This was actually the most challenging election I had ever faced.
Only ranked-choice voting offered me the path to resolve my conflicts and uphold my personal moral standards. Of course, the one hang-up that became the most challenging hurdle to overcome was the system itself. It simply didn’t offer ranked-choice in it. How can I rank-choice vote in a system that doesn’t offer it? Making it work in a restrictive system was the hard part.
But then it struck me. I resolved to not let the system hold back my democratic voice. Democracy gives me my one equal voice to use - and I am not going to be deterred because of a technical limitation in a flawed corrupt system. Liberation ensued.
To hell with the system. I rank-choice voted.
And the outcome actually arrived on the scene. I am very happy with my choice.
I had to vote against the trajectory offered by the corrupt status quo. That was the foremost conclusion I arrived at. The unfettered corruption and evil arrogance that defied democratic freedom had to be stopped. My three ranked choices reflected that common theme consistently.
This “voting for the lesser evil” crap had to go. It never works which it has proven election after election after election. I absolutely resigned myself to the condition that I was going to vote for something this time. That required a search.
I explored my first choice first. I found it to have no chance to move our trajectory. It became obvious early on in the cycle that the third party choice could not demonstrate the skills of leadership and consensus building required to be viable. I even asked the Green Party to take the lead and offer the electorate a unified option back in February.
The Green Party leadership did respond to me; essentially telling me “it would happen organically”. They did not lead on it. But, it did happen organically as they predicted.
It happened in my second rank choice vote. Robert F Kennedy Jr left the Democratic Primary, switched to Independent and then united with the Trump-Vance ticket. Tulsi Gabbard also rejected the Democratic Party and also joined the Trump-Vance ticket. I think they were rank-choice voting too!
Both of these voices rejected the corruption and chose democratic freedom in its place. I wrote about this in my previous article “The Roar of the People”.
Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk came in. They rejected the corrupt media influences and brought independent media and the Twitter/X social media platform into the Trump-Vance ticket. The energy took off from there, with more and more voices aligning with it. My second choice did what my first-choice failed (refused) to do.
In summary, my first-choice failed to materialize. My second-choice grabbed democratic freedom and delivered it. This avoided my third-choice from being required. That is ranked-choice voting. It was not officially ranked-choice voting, but it was ranked-choice voting. I can vouch for it because I voted using the ranked-choice system and it worked. It was democracy doing its thing. And it's beautiful.
Let me punctuate a final point that makes this more beautiful than I even expected it would be: The outcome of this election is not about any politician or so-called leader. The outcome is the voice of the people. It’s the roaring power of democracy itself.
Everything about it is the people uniting on the common ground of peace and freedom. This is an important point that requires illumination which, in turn, explains where we now stand.
The Repudiation of the Establishment
I wanted to see an outright rejection of the corrupt DNC political Establishment. I wanted to see their arrogance and entitled position of power removed from our lives. Don’t get me wrong … I also wanted the corruption in the GOP gone!
I wanted to see America choose a totally different path forward. I wanted to see endless wars end and corporate corruption removed. I wanted to see the decay of the quality of life across our communities reverse its course. I wanted to see a focus on the health, education, safety, and empowerment of every one of us to replace the evil destruction of those very elements to take place. I wanted to hear free speech everywhere and see censorship criminalized.
So many of us wanted the Democratic Party to either change or be replaced by a totally new political party and vision.
I came from what many call “the left”. We tried over-and-over to shift the Democratic Party to democratic principles. We failed. The Squad, Bernie Sanders (twice), the Progressive Caucus, Justice Democrats, etc. They all got consumed by the DNC Establishment and weaponized against us and our very mission.
We tried to build alternative parties in this two-party duopolistic system to give us the choice we wanted. Every movement or third party we attempted to form fizzled into mediocrity and demise. Our good intentions could never match the financial and media resources the Establishment weaponized against us. We failed.
But none of what we pursued was wrong nor was it done in vain. The energy of the people for democratic freedom kept rising. We could just feel it was there.
But something else was going on and we on “the left” didn't really pay attention to it. While we tried to either replace or shift the moral compass of the Democratic Party, others just like us were busy shifting the Republican Party. Our neighbors got it done!
They came together as MAGA to start. People came together to replace the Establishment Republicans with themselves (the MAGA Republicans).
As the election cycle proceeded, RFK Jr joined them. He experienced the same stifling corruption we ran into as he tried to change the direction of the Democratic Party from within. They vilified him. They ignored him. They rejected him. They thwarted and silenced him at every turn. That didn’t stop him. He created a new movement called Make America Healthy Again (MAHA). And he consolidated MAHA into MAGA. Tulsi Gabbard came along. Tucker Carlson came. Elon Musk came. Independent media and numerous other voices came along. People united.
In a revolution for power, the unification of people is the prerequisite. Malcolm X knew that. United people will always win because they are the absolute majority over a ruling class that cannot exceed 1% in numbers. United people is the seed of successful revolutionary systemic change. Uniting is the first step.
Remember that the 1% has only one weapon that they can use against us: Money. They have lots of it. But, that is also all they got.
So the people united. And as the people united, guess what else happened? The legacy corporate media floundered. They lost their own relevance (through their own doing and bullshit). Independent media sprung into life with a new refreshing energy and flourished. Free speech became our liberating force. (And that just feels so damn good.)
Free speech is a lot more powerful than money. While money can only buy speech in the form of bullshit, united people engage in actual constructive speech.
As a result of this factor, the 1% has lost control. They are freaking out. We are taking control and we are doing it democratically because that is where our power is. (Ask Malcolm X if you don’t believe me.) It feels absolutely fantastic.
As a humorous irony … Kamala Harris rolled out her campaign under a theme of “joy”. Her theme was right on-target. It was the right theme at the right time. Her problem was that she couldn’t deliver it because there is no joy in the corrupt manipulation of the people. But joy is here. We, the people, delivered it ourselves. Ironic, huh? It generates a smile on my face! Joy is here!!!!
Legacy corporate media has lost its credibility. It was already tanking, but now it has almost nothing left and is on its way out. It’s dying in front of our eyes. We - the people - have bid them adios. They will never get us back.
Along the way, it’s nice to see that celebrity worship has shown that it doesn’t have much power over us either. Adios to that empty vessel too.
The MAGA movement has also repudiated the Establishment Republicans from the GOP. The tenure of the likes of Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham, Mitt Romney and others is quickly coming to an end. They no longer wield power in the new MAGA Republican structure. They have no voice there. Many have already fled the ship and joined their like-minded corrupt Establishment politicians in the DNC. Dick and Liz Cheney, The Lincoln Project people, and others. The Establishment Republican Party is gone. Adios to them.
Who Are the MAGA People?
This past September, I went out to meet the MAGA people. I was curious. Who are these people? What are they saying? What is their mission? I wanted to see what they were about and what they had to say.
As a stock-car racing fan, I went to the NASCAR race weekend in Watkins Glen NY on September 13-15. I camped out among them. It was a party. People shared food, firewood and company with each other. Our kids played with each other. We sang some Karaoke. We argued over which race car drivers we liked best. And we talked about politics. They want peace, community, justice and personal freedom. They want the entitled corrupt Establishment out and gone. They want to be heard. And they want to be represented. It sounded good to me!
I explored this further two-weekends later by attending the Peace & Freedom Rally in Kingston NY. There were about 1,000 people in attendance and half of them were independent/third party people and the other half represented MAGA people. Everyone was in agreement on the core issues of democratic freedom, free speech, and peace. We all applauded and cheered the speakers voicing those very values and democratic principles. They were all 100% against the Establishment ruling class and the evil they conveyed. Their voices spoke in a language of complete common ground.
As September faded into October, I found myself to be united in the MAGA movement. I came at this from “the left” as did many others. Many came at it from “the right”. But none of where we came from mattered. What matters is where we are going. And it has nothing to do with left or right. It has everything to do with the common ground we share.
We are united people in agreement on the principles of democratic freedom. We are united in free speech, discussion and building consensus. We are united in building our own communities together with our neighbors. We are not united on every single issue … but we are united in the freedom to discuss each and every issue and build democratic consensus on them together. We agree to practice democracy as the way to build our communities.
United people are much more powerful than the division shoved down our throats by this evil arrogant self-entitled ruling class that has infested our society. United against them, we can toss them out of our lives. United, we can change everything and live peacefully and freely. I am all in for that.
On November 5th, we reached panel 2. The people have proved that they have love in them. They have proved that we have the common ground we all want and need. We are now the majority.
Come and join your neighbors — that is who we all are.
The Big Awakening is now a force with the energy of the people. We define the next steps together and we take them together. That is how revolutions are won.
I do not agree with you all on every single thing. But I don’t have to. I absolutely love walking down this path with you. Peace and freedom is where we are headed. And that is what we do agree on.
Panel 3 … here we come. We are winning this revolution.
Come Together - The Beatles
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Here come old flat-top, he come groovin' up slowly
He got ju-ju eyeball, he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker, he just do what he please
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola
He say, "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together, right now
Over me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
He bag production, he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease
Come together, right now
Over me
Shoot me
Right!
Come, come, come, come, come
He roller-coaster, he got early warnin'
He got muddy water, he one mojo filter
He say, "One and one and one is three"
Got to be good-lookin' 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together, right now
Over me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Ugh!
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Oh, come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together
Great job Danny! This is Kathy Lloyd (hello fascism or ZOV account suspended on twitter/X) How many times we talked about a REVOLUTION/a must - starting in our communities. You know me as being O.L.D. lol. If only everyone would wake up as to the DUOPOLY THAT MUST BE DESTROYED! Just listened to some of Trumps picks, just more of the same with different names. Can't share on X sorry!