All rulers have been, are and will be parasites, prostitutes, abusive, thieves and coercers

All rulers have been, are and will be parasites, prostitutes, abusive, thieves and coercers

How governments and States arose

Democracy is a superstition based on statistics.

—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentine writer

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely (1887).

—John Emerich Edward Dalkberg Acton, better known as Lord Acton (1834–1902)

The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance (1790).

—John Philpot Curran (1750–1817), Irish Catholic lawyer and orator

Democracy is the worst system of government designed by man, except for all the others.

—Winston Churchill (1874–1965), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955

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Throughout the existence of humanity, power groups, governments and States have emerged after strifes, battles and wars, predominantly internal wars and revolutions.

Most of the rulers of all time, and of course the current ones, from the third decade of the 21st century, consider themselves legitimate, either through an election, because they have inherited power, because they are "the best" in their countries, for they are assassins, because of luck; but... then comes the second legitimacy, neither that which is "conquered" at ballot boxes nor by being heirs to power, but rather that which is obtained in the exercise of power, supposedly for the benefit of citizens or subjects.

In caveman times, the strongest prevailed over the others and then demanded the payment of tributes for taking care of the clan, group, tribe, etcetera, from possible external attacks, either from dangerous animals or from some other human group. They charged in kind (fruits, seeds, meat), or in the currency that was used at that time, salt, cocoa, embroidered blankets, and even women...

After the reigns and governments of antiquity, headed by individuals such as Hammurabi, Ramses II and Egyptian pharaohs who preceded and succeeded him; Teglatfalasar III in Assyria, Cyrus II the Great, Cambyses, Nebuchadnezzar II, Darius I the Great, the Chinese emperors, Pericles; rulers chosen in Athens by lottery with the kleroterion; Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Octavian Caesar Augustus, Tiberius, etcetera, the medieval emperors arrived, like Charlemagne, the kings of that time; for example, Philip IV of France (Philip the Fair, of the Capetian Dynasty), Henry II of Castile (Henry II of Trastámara); Henry IV of England (of the House of Lancaster), etcetera; the sovereigns of the Modern Age, and the rulers elected by proxy vote or direct vote.

The fact is that some groups accumulated power and imposed themselves, sometimes savagely, through wars, murders (including monarchs, princes and princesses), exile, etcetera.

And later "they were legitimized" by ordering the drafting of laws, just as the Visigothic King Recesvinto had done in Hispania, by promulgating the Liber Iudiciorum around the year 654.

Some examples: Acamapichtli the first Aztec or Mexica huey tlatoani ("king"), who ruled from 1366 to 1387, had limited power, his descendants and heirs accumulated immense political strength, aided by the priests of Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli, until the Spaniards arrived under the command of Hernán Cortés (Hernando Cortez), in 1519, and the Nahua regime, which had ignominiously kept other Mesoamerican peoples subjugated, ended once and for all with the conquest of Tenochtitlán, on 13 August 1521.

Later came the viceroyalties, or Colonies. And at the beginning of the 19th century, the intrigues of the Scottish and York Freemasons began to bear fruit, which encouraged the independence of the Spanish colonies or viceroyalties in America with respect to the Metropolis (Spain).

In Mexico, after riots, coup d'État, violent changes of rulers, in some cases new Constitutions were drafted –1824, 1836, 1857, 1917– to theoretically accommodate everything according to the vision of each new ruler, leader, president, ringleader... And it is the case that each guy who has sat in the "Eagle's Chair" considers "unfailingly" that his government is legitimate, because according to that it comes from the power that the people have conferred upon him by expressing his opinion and casting their votes at ballot boxes.

But almost all of them have ignored the voices and have not read the texts of critics or historians such as Daniel Cosío Villegas (1898-1976), ideologues such as Carlos Castillo Peraza (1947-2000), etcetera, in the sense that the correct exercise of power could having legitimized, albeit partially, both those who became rulers through more or less fair elections or through impositions via electoral fraud or finger-pointing. Those who govern very badly have abounded, by granting ample scope to steal, to abuse power, and to make and unmake, to the members of their cliques and privileged groups.

Political power in Mexico constitutes a great stigma, because it inherently entails the task of lying WITHOUT EXCEPTION, of lowering the will of subjugated citizens, of silencing their voice, of oppressing them through coercion, taxes, repression, prison, exile, and even murder. It is an illogical condition that has led to sick societies, since the Olmec civilization flourished, 4,000 or 5,000 years ago, until now (third decade of the 21st century). Repression can cause the backlash of rebellion, sedition.

The Mexican rulers and legislators have rarely expressed their intentions and reasons with truth and clarity, because these being the desire to steal, to enjoy power, to enrich themselves and prosper at the cost of impoverishing and vilely dominating the citizens, it is necessary camouflage them. For this reason, the anarcho-capitalism of the Austrian School of Economics (Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, Jesús Huerta de Soto, etcetera) is the best socioeconomic system, not only for Mexico, but for all nations.

A root problem is coercion.

If an armed robber approaches a citizen in the street or breaks into his home, shows him the weapon, and tells him: hand over the money, jewelry, goods, or die, the robbed individual has no choice but to give what that they ask.

This is coercion by a thief.

The thieving government (that is, all of them) approaches the citizen, shows him its weapons —which are the laws that the submissive and lackey legislators have drafted, and above all the fiscal and criminal codes–, and expresses to him: pay taxes; if you don't, there will be fines, the obligation to pay more, and you'll even go to jail, "the law says so here."

This is coercion by the government in turn (another thief).

It does not matter if the rulers, their subordinate officials, the legislators, etcetera, are from the right or the left, populist or not, elected or imposed, they are all prostituted parasites.

Politics, is it really a necessary evil? In other words, politicians as prostitutes: Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), the 40th president of the United States (1981–1989), once said: "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

The binomial corruption and impunity—public and private—disputes with public insecurity the first place among the serious problems that afflict Mexico. They are closely followed by poverty and inequality. Added to this are the ineptitude, ignorance and incapacity of numerous rulers, legislators and public officials.

The Greeks bequeathed democracy to us as a form of government, but for centuries experiences have shown that both in democratic republics and in dictatorial and absolutist regimes, countries, regions, states, provinces, departments, districts, counties, municipalities, have been led by small groups or elites who make important decisions almost always to the detriment of the people.