Is the United States Electoral Process Psychotic?

Find Out How “The People” Can Actually Take Back Control of the Own Government

Professor Schwartz
8 min readApr 11, 2024
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Disclaimer: Do not read this story if you think our elections are perfect and our country has no room for improvement. Please do me a favor and just “not read” this story, because everything you’re about to read is going to blow your mind.

The Founding Fathers

There’s been a lot of misinformation and miseducation about American History over the last 20 years. And one of those false narratives is about our Founding Fathers.

What you might not know is that our Founding Fathers wrestled with the idea of the nature of man.

There were two schools of thought:

  • John Locke
  • Voltaire

Is the nature of man good or evil?

This isn’t an easy question to answer, and our Founding Fathers wrestled with this inherent conflict.

If the nature of man is good — then you can create a permissive government. And that’s because good people don’t need laws to address bad things. Good people don’t commit crimes.

But what if the nature of man is evil?

If this is true, then you need to create a government that is much less forgiving and less permissive. If human beings are evil — then you have to address all the crimes and bad things they will do to each other.

The Final Decision

In the end, the Founding Fathers concluded that the nature of man was good, but that human beings are highly susceptible to being manipulated. And when good people get manipulated — they end up doing a lot of bad things to each other.

So how do you create a government for the people that allows them to be good, but also recognizes that they will do a lot of bad things to each other because of manipulation?

And this is what the Founding Fathers came up with:

  • We have a President, but they can’t have absolute power.
  • We have a Congress, but the people can vote them out very quickly
  • And we have a Supreme Court, but they can only decide cases that come before them and not “find” cases to judge

What the Founding Fathers couldn’t predict was if this new structure of government would work better than all other forms of government before them.

And for the most part — they turned out to be right.

Psychos Running Washington D.C.

But good things don’t last forever.

So let’s fast forward to 2024.

Our country is deeply divided, there’s civil unrest, there’s economic strife across the nation and the people feel uncertain and hopeless about the future.

The problem is that no one is looking at how we got here. All of these problems didn’t just suddenly appear — they have been brewing for decades, and they have become massive societal challenges simply because everyone has ignored them for so long.

The issue is — we can’t ignore them anymore.

So what should you do?

Now the sane thing to do is hold our elected officials accountable. After all, we voted these people into public office to do the right thing. And if they were doing the right thing — our society wouldn’t be falling apart at the seams.

But they didn’t do that. In fact, they did the opposite.

But our Founding Fathers knew that this would happen someday. They knew that the nature of man was good, but that people are highly susceptible to evil and manipulation.

And that accurately describes the people in Washington D.C. and that describes the “corporate class.”

They are “good” people, but they have abandoned doing good things.

And the classic definition of a psycho is someone who knows the difference between right and wrong, but chooses to do the wrong thing most of the time.

1984 or 2024?

In 1949, George Orwell wrote his dystopian novel, 1984, in which he describes a society that has been consumed by manipulation and mind control.

Welcome to 2024!

The problem is Orwell was only off by 40 years.

But the Founding Fathers knew we would deal with this one day. They knew that human beings would abandon all goodness and common sense and do the wrong things.

That’s why they designed our government to permit good people to live their lives, but also protect against evil people manipulating everyone.

We Need to Restore Order

If you feel helpless and hopeless, you’re not alone.

The sane reaction to a world consumed by AI and manipulation is to retreat inside of yourself. If you can’t trust what’s going on around you — the natural tendency is to escape and retreat.

And that’s exactly what Orwell predicted in 1984.

But the Founding Fathers gave you an escape hatch.

The problem is that you’re not using it.

So what I’m saying is — use the escape hatch!!

Control the Narrative

Scientists believe that human beings have been on earth for approximately 6 million years. Who knows if they are correct or not, because we know the modern human is a good person — who is highly susceptible to manipulation and mind control.

Therefore, the technology might have been very different 6 million years ago, but humans have not changed. If there are evil people alive today, then there were definitely evil people alive back then too.

And that’s because humans have not changed.

We are what we are.

And if you understand that truism — then you’re going to understand how to control the narrative in your own life.

Because this is what you need to do.

You need to block out the manipulation. You need to restore order in your universe. You need to take back control over your own mind.

Bringing Peace to the World

Good people want to live in peace. I hope that’s not a radical thought, but then again — the news media is not run by good people. And just in case you read this story and everything goes right over your head.

Our government isn’t run by good people either.

No government is.

Does that make mean we should get rid of governments? The answer is no. That’s not the solution.

In fact, if you think getting rid of governments is a good idea — you’re a different type of psycho.

Good people need government, which is why we have a government. The problem is that we need good people to run our government, so that our government isn’t corrupt.

And that seems to be the main issue in 2024.

Everyone that runs our government isn’t a good person. Even the people you think are “good” are not actually good. And it just goes back to the definition of a psycho.

A psycho is a person who knows the difference between good and evil and chooses to do the wrong thing. And that accurately describes our government officials, our government workers and our whole government structure.

But the answer is not to vote “non-committal.”

If that’s what you think — you’re a new kind of psycho.

Regaining Your Power

The answer is to take back your power. What the Founding Fathers understood and knew was that there would come a point in American History, where our government would turn on “the people.”

They knew that in 1776.

They didn’t know when and they didn’t know how it would happen, but they knew that at some point in the future — “the people” would be at odds with the government.

And they planned for this eventuality.

So here’s how you regain your power.

Vote for someone new.

Members of Congress only hold public office for two years. But here’s the problem. Most of the people in Congress have been there much longer than two years.

The lazy way of dealing with this is “calling for term limits.”

Hello, McFly!!

You think the people in Congress are going to vote to limit their ability to steal money from you and manipulate you? Either you’ve lost your mind or you’re smoking something.

But the Founding Fathers knew that members of Congress would behave selfishly, which is why they created a legal two-year limit. The problem is “the people” are not exercising those term limits.

In fact, you are voting for the incumbent 90% of the time.

In other words — this is your own damn fault.

So take back control and regain your power. Stop voting the incumbent in to office.

I’m not saying this will be easy to do. And here’s why?

Because changing the way you vote requires effort. And it also requires you to do a little bit of research.

And let’s face it — you’re lazy and stupid.

Don’t shoot the messenger, this is what the American public has become. We don’t do anything ourselves anymore. We rely on other people to do everything for us.

The truth is we have less self-reliance today than at any other time in American History.

We have become so lazy that we have people “shopping” for us because it’s too much effort to leave the house and go to a store.

But I’m not saying you have to give up your personal shopper, what I am saying is that you have to stop relying on other people to tell you how to think.

Unfortunately, what used to be reputable sources of information have become disreputable overnight. And just in case you haven’t been paying attention, here’s a list of the disreputable places to get news and information:

  • the mainstream media
  • colleges and universities
  • elected officials
  • the government agencies
  • scientific journals

If you’re shocked by this list — you should be.

This list exposes how far our society has gone into the depths of 1984.

But there is hope.

Vote for someone new

Stop voting for the incumbent.

But in order to regain your power — you need to do research. So here’s what you need to Google.

  • The name of the incumbent

Were you expecting a longer list?

Nope. Just learn the name of the person who holds your seat of power.

And then vote them out in November.

It’s that simple.

If you vote for that person again — you are part of the problem.

Don’t vote “non-committal” and don’t vote for someone you like. Just don’t vote for the incumbent.

What Will Happen?

After December 7, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a fireside chat to the nation in which he said, “the only thing to fear is fear itself.”

And most young people don’t really understand what that means, so let me explain.

Remember how the mainstream news media used Covid to scare the living daylights out of you?

That’s what President Roosevelt was talking about.

Our elected officials use high-level emotional manipulation techniques against us, in order to control our behavior. So what you need to do to protect yourself against an emotional abuser is “ignore them.”

I know its hard to do. But that’s the only solution.

Emotional abusers only have power over you when you listen to what they say. But if you start ignoring them — they have no power over you.

The problem is you can’t ignore people who also hold real power over you. Which is why you need to exercise your legal two-year term limit on them. Because they know you hold all the cards.

They know they have no power over you — and your vote.

That’s why they emotionally manipulate you.

They want to convince you — that your vote has less power than it does in reality. But the opposite is true. You have the ability to regain control and take back your power.

But you have to get rid of the emotional manipulators and abusers.

This is the biggest threat to democracy.

The Founding Fathers knew this was going to happen. They prepared for it by creating the two-year term limit for members of Congress. The problem is you haven’t been using the escape hatch.

So start using it.

Thank you for listening, may you find peace and happiness in your life and may god bless you and God bless America.

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Professor Schwartz
Professor Schwartz

Written by Professor Schwartz

Education Thought Leader and Author of "Disrupting Education," the blueprint for building 21st century schools of the future.

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