You are told you live in a democracy. Democracy means “people power”. So, here’s a simple question – do you feel powerful? Has your political system empowered you? Do you feel that your views are taken into consideration, that you can stop things you don’t like, that the government has your back and is doing its utmost to improve your lot in life? If none of that is true then how can you
be living in a democracy?

Do you imagine that voting for Peter Obi, Tinubu or Atiku is going to change anything? Why would it? Don’t you want your vote to actually count, to make a difference, to make life better for you and yours?

Here’s the reason why “democracy” doesn’t give the people any power;
In a nutshell, democracy is harnessed to capitalism. Capitalism has nothing to do with the people. As the word says, capitalism is about capital. Capitalism is run by and for the people with capital: rich folks, corporations, and, above all, banks. No democrat can influence capitalism. Only those with capital –
the 1% – are in the game. The 99% are
permanently locked out of the capitalist game. Their job is to serve capitalism, to be its functionaries, its drudges, its drones, its bureaucrats, its enforcers, its slaves. They have no control whatsoever over capitalism. They are its victims, not its masters.
Do you see how brilliant the elites have been, how ingenious? They have given people the illusion of democracy, but ensured it came with no power. All the power remained where it has always been…with the rich.

Capitalism is simply plutocracy, i.e. rule
by the rich. The rich were so clever that they
rebranded plutocracy with the neutral name of capitalism so that the dumb masses wouldn’t notice the contradiction at the heart of “capitalist democracy”. If people had to refer to “plutocratic democracy” or “democratic plutocracy”, they would immediately see the fatal flaw at the heart of
the concept. Either the people are in charge, or the rich are in charge. It can’t be both.

The original form of democracy, introduced by the ancient Athenians, was designed to take power from the rich oligarchs and give it to the people. Capitalism is designed to do the reverse: power flows from the people to the rich. Capitalism is the formal opposite of democracy. Capitalism is exactly what the Athenians, the inventors of democracy,
would never have accepted.
Was there ever a greater con than “capitalist democracy”? The “democracy” is the nice
illusion, the “capitalism” is the brute reality.

The story we the people are told day in and day out is that we are in charge. The reality is that we are emphatically not in charge. All of the power resides with those with capital. It never matters who you vote for. Your vote doesn’t count and you don’t count. There are no votes that make any difference to capitalism. No capitalist is elected by you, and no capitalist is accountable to you, so why do you still cling to the fantasy that you have power, that your vote matters, that elections matter?
Why would putting either Peter Obi, Tinubu or Atiku in Aso Villa make any difference whatsoever? It’s not as if either of them is going to do anything about capitalism. They themselves are rich capitalists.
Wealthy capitalists are always the kind of people that get into power, never the likes of you. Can you imagine a simple, ordinary person in Aso Rock, who never earned more than N5,000,000 Naira a year but was a decent, capable, hard- working, intelligent teacher, for example? It’s impossible, isn’t it? So much for “democracy”.

Capitalism, naturally, puts capitalists in power. It never allows non-capitalists to have any power. Capitalism is anti-democracy. How stupid would you have to be to imagine otherwise? You are ruled by the “free market”. When have you ever elected the market? When have you ever
elected those who run the market? What power do you have over the market? The market rules you. You don’t rule it. Elections make no difference to the market.That’s why the elites allow elections. They would be illegal otherwise. The market – the engine of capitalism – stands permanently outside democracy. Democracy can’t touch it. It doesn’t care who’s in Aso Villa.
You are allowed your elections every four years because elections are meaningless. Whatever the result, the market will screw you, the capitalists will screw you, and the elites will screw you. They are, after all, masters at screwing the people. They have
been doing it for thousands of years. Why would they change now? Capitalism gave the plutocrats the chance to masquerade as the champions of the people while screwing over the people harder than ever before.

Capitalist “democracy” relies on the construction of a false consciousness. The people must be able to engage in perfect doublethink: believing that they have power even as they know for a fact that they
don’t. That’s how the system works. It’s the most elaborate charade ever. It’s a play that has been in progress for centuries, and everyone knows their lines by heart.
If people were serious democrats, they would never tolerate capitalism, which is pure plutocracy and oligarchy. So, they are pretend democrats, sham democrats, fake democrats, faux democrats, ersatz democrats. They know every which way to
play the game of impersonating democrats, while at all times allowing all of the power to stay with the plutocrats.
There are only two ways things can go. Either the people are in charge or private elites are in charge.
Capitalism puts private elites in power. What do you want? For the private arena to rule the public arena? Or for the public arena to rule the private arena? It’s one or the other. You are either a supporter of the private or the public. Democracy is about the public, capitalism about the private. They are inherently opposed.
The task of the plutocrats, and they’re very good at it, is to fool you into believing that capitalism and plutocracy are perfectly aligned.

Thomas Jefferson, the most intelligent and
farsighted President America has ever had, said, “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers
conquered.... I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
Jefferson has been proved chillingly prophetic. If the people are not in charge
of capital then they are not in charge of anything.
Abraham Lincoln, the most moral American President, wrote, “Labor is prior to, and
independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

Capitalists would be nothing without the workers. There can be no such thing as capital without workers. It’s an inversion of the natural order for capital to be regarded as superior to labor. Yet the plutocrats have engineered exactly that perverse outcome.

The tail is well and truly wagging the dog.

Democracy na scam.

Fela say animal won give me human rights.

Human rights na my property.


Democracy is an off spring of capitalisim.

It's for a few.