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A few days later, both Scrooge and Rockefeller received an invitation from Mr. Gardner. Lincoln, the leader of a new political party, the Republican party, was about to travel to Cleveland for a propaganda campaign, and some of his local Republican supporters hosted a welcome reception. And the old Whig Gardner, naturally, was invited, and under his event, Scrooge and Rockefeller were also invited.

Of course, Scrooge knew that the so-called welcome reception was nothing more than a place for political figures and wealthy people to meet, and to promote the marriage of political and wealthy people. In a sense, it is also an election, and it is a more important election than the formal one-person-one-vote elections.

In Scrooge's last life, many immature Too young, too simple Tucson guys liked to equate democracy with votes, thinking that one person, one vote would definitely have democracy. In fact, they do not understand that in the so-called democratic elections, the pre-screening is much more important than the final referendum. As long as you carefully design a pre-election plan that works before the election begins, you can be sure that no matter how the people vote, the people who will come to power will represent your interests.

In modern times, pre-screening is essential. If the so-called countries are all as virtuous as the Greek city-states, and the number of voters in the whole country is only three or five hundred, it is nothing if there is no pre-election. However, for example, in a country with a population of tens of millions (let's not take a country like China, which has a population of more than a billion people, or India, which has a population of only 100 million but has more than a billion people with the right to vote, as an example), the number of people who are willing to be president is hundreds of thousands, and then they come together to participate in the election, and each person in turn introduces his or her own political ideas to the people of the whole country, eight hours a day, no repairs on holidays, and when the introduction is completed, it has been many years, and then the debate and then the ...... When it came time to vote, the great-grandchildren of the people of the whole country said that after waiting for several generations, they finally waited for the vote - what? Are the candidates dead of old age? No way, start all over again!

Since pre-selection is essential, the criteria for pre-selection are very important. For example, in a democratic election on the green grassland, we determined such a pre-selection condition: "The length of the dog's tooth must be more than 3o millimeters". Well, the final candidates who come out must be: Big Big Wolf, Red Big Wolf, Wolf Cousin, Wolf Cousin...... Anyway, it's definitely all a litter of white-eyed wolves. Don't laugh, it's not a joke, there really have been democratic elections in the history of mankind with similar criteria. For example, in ancient Rome, during the Republic, it was stipulated that only those who had a certain number of family assets had the right to vote and be elected. And the more money you have, the more quotas you get. If you are as rich as Alexander, who has just robbed Darius, you alone have the legal right to cast 10,000 votes.

When the beacon of freedom was just founded, the smoke of the war of independence had just dissipated, and the heroes who wrote the most magnificent words of the Declaration of Independence began to discuss how to prevent future democracy from losing control (I won't say whose control it lost), and began to discuss how to determine a reasonable pre-selection rule. Some people directly proposed that it should be simply stipulated that only those who have had a certain amount of fixed assets can have the right to be elected and become members of Congress. Those who are chosen in this way must be our people!

It's just that this simple and unscrupulous approach is too deceptive. Just as the standard of "the length of the canine's teeth must be more than 35 mm" will inevitably be opposed by the sheep, such a condition will certainly be opposed by those who have guns in the War of Independence and the British, who are desperate and still have guns (which is important), and who do not have so much money at home. So, Benjamin? Franklin was adamantly opposed to the bill, and even sarcastically said that if I had just enough fortune to make me a congressman, and on the night I was elected, one of our donkeys died, and I didn't have enough money to serve as a congressman, should I resign for it? Who exactly is the parliamentarian, it's a joke between me and the donkey.

So, is there a pre-selection method that seems fair, but can also achieve great results?

Of course there is, and that is the cost of participation. As long as the cost of participation in this game is high enough, those unstable factors that are not in control can naturally be eliminated in the pre-selection.

For example, a friend of ours named Bald Qiang was going to the election, and he wrote a big sign himself, carried it on his shoulder, and went around to promote himself, and then suddenly his cell phone rang:

"Ah, Boss Li, what's the matter?"

"Bald strong! Where did you go? ”

"I'm going to run for the election, and I'm promoting myself on the street......" The bald head was interrupted before he could finish speaking.

"Election! Have you cut your wood? If you don't come back and cut down the tree right away, I'll fire you and let you go out into the street to eat the northwest wind!" Boss Li's roar came from the phone, and the spittle in his mouth seemed to follow the radio waves and squirted out of the microphone, so that the bald head Qiang had to hold the phone far away from his face.

"Don't, don't, Boss Li! I don't choose, I'll come back and cut down trees right away......"

As a result, the majority of the working class was successfully screened out.

What if there are still people who don't give up, save money for a few years, and can support themselves without working for the time being? It doesn't matter, we still have propaganda barriers.

Advertising in newspapers, magazines, television, and the Internet requires a lot of money, and this money is not something that individuals can afford. So you have to enlist the support of rich people, and of course they won't support you for no reason.

For example, if you are an animal that wants to participate in the Green Grassland election, but you don't have enough money for publicity, you can only go to the rich "Steppe Wolves" club or the "Forest Tiger" club to ask for funding.

"Tell me about your political opinions."

"I think that all animals are equal, and no one has the right to eat whom......"

"Get out! Bang! So you flew out of the gate of the club with a butt backwards and a goose in the sand, and you could see a big shoe print on your butt. So what kind of political opinion can be funded? That, of course, is such a political opinion:

"I think all animals are equal, and everyone has the right to eat the other at will."

This is the best way to filter, and anyone who promotes heresy that forbids wolves to eat sheep will be eliminated in this screening mode. The rest, no matter how you choose, are all those of us who are jackals, tigers and leopards!

So, in an election, things like these welcome receptions are actually candidates who are explaining their political opinions to the "steppenwolves" or "forest tigers" club owners and being screened.

"Scrooge, are you going to attend?" Rockefeller asked.

"Of course, are you going?" Scrooge asked rhetorically.

"Of course I have to go. Any change in politics will affect the economy and affect our business. So I had to go and see which way the wind went. Rockefeller said.

"John, you're not entirely right." Scrooge said slowly, "We don't just go there to see the direction of the wind, we do business." ”

"Doing business? What to buy and sell? Rockefeller asked.

"Politics and Futures." Scrooge replied. Seeing that Rockefeller didn't seem to have understood, Scrooge had to explain it to him further:

"John, you also know that changes in politics will affect the economy and affect our business. In that case, why don't we find a way to control these changes and make them change in our favor? Compared to something completely uncontrollable like a change in the weather, the change in politics is much more controllable. If you think about it, if the future president of the United States had to think about our interests first when he designated his policies, would our business still not go well? ”

"You mean to bribe those politicians? It's illegal! God teaches us ......" Rockefeller's eyes widened.

Seeing the appearance that Rockefeller deliberately made, Scrooge couldn't help but feel funny, bribing political figures, bribing judges, and bribing police, aren't these things one of the magic weapons of the Rockefeller family to get rich in history? He actually pretended to be pure in front of himself?

"Believe you, I'm stupid and naïve!" Scrooge complained in his heart.

"Of course not that's what it meant. I wouldn't do something like this that violates the law and may not be God's law. Scrooge immediately put on a law-abiding little obedient look. However, he also understands that just as Rockefeller pretending to be pure could not deceive him, he knew that his words would never deceive Rockefeller, because they are the kind of people who can trample on the rules of the world for the sake of 300 percent profit.

"Elections are a very expensive thing, and money is needed for propaganda and organization. Without the funding of our bosses, no one can play. So, the candidate has to please us or some of us. He has to convince us that the policies he has implemented since he came to power will benefit us. And when we choose to support a politician, in a sense, it's like buying futures. Well, this is also a kind of futures, political zhì futures. ”

"And what if he regrets it when he comes to power?" Rockefeller asked. After asking, he immediately realized that he was saying something stupid.

"You see, I'm talking stupid. This is not something he can regret. His caucus will not allow him to repent. Because to do so is to cut off the financial route of the party and caucus. Without us doing anything, the party to which he belongs will abandon him first, and even kill him! There is a risk in these futures, but it is not in the fact that politicians will go back on their actions when they come to power. ”

"Not bad! Politicians always make people feel that they like to talk and don't count. But this impression is mainly due to the fact that they often reneg on their promises to ordinary voters. And the reason why they are like this is because the cost of turning their backs on this is very low - ordinary people are always easy to deceive. And the cost of turning away from the propertied is definitely not low. Scrooge added