Democracy Is the Ideal Distraction

Guest Post by Jeff Thomas via International Man

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In the days of yore, there were kings. Everybody could agree to hate the king because he was rich and well-fed, when most of his minions were not.

Then, a more effective system was invented: democracy. Its originators had in mind a system whereby the populace could choose their leader from amongst themselves – thereby gaining a leader who understood them and represented them.

In short order, those amongst the populace who wished to rule found a way to game the new system in a way that would allow them to, in effect, be kings, but to do so from behind the scenes, whilst retaining the illusion of democracy.

The formula is to create two opposing political parties. Each is led by someone who’s presented as being a “representative of the people.”

You then present the two parties as having opposing views on governance. It matters little what the differences are. In fact, you can have the differences be as obscure and arbitrary as, say, gay rights or abortion, and they will work as well as any other differences. What matters is that your two parties object to each other strenuously on the declared issues, working the electorate into a lather.

Once you have each group hating the other group “on principle,” you’re home free. At that point, you’ve successfully completed the distraction. The electorate now believe that, whatever the trumped-up issues are, they’re critical to the ethical governance of the country.

Most importantly, the electorate actually believe that their future well-being depends on the outcome of the next election – that it will decide whether their own view on the issues will prevail.

In a dictatorship, the leaders try to convince the people to support the dictatorship by claiming that more than 90% of the people voted for the dictator. But this is primitive thinking. It results in the same focused anti-leader sentiment that plagued the kings.

Far better to have the people fail to recognise who their actual rulers are and focus on the candidates, who are mere bit players and are changed as needed.

And, in a country where the illusion of democracy has become refined, the rulers come to understand that elections should not result in an overwhelming victory for one party or the other. Quite the opposite. If it can be arranged effectively, the best election is one that results in a 51% to 49% split.

This ensures that the 49% will not lose hope – that they’ll be both frustrated and angry at their near-miss, and redouble their efforts in the next election in order to have a win. And the 51% will wipe their collective brow in relief at having won, but will fear losing their slim advantage next time around.

Both parties must remain both hopeful and fearful. Keep them focused on each other – hating each other – and they’ll never figure out that you control both candidates like marionettes. The focus should never be on you, the real ruling class.

It’s also quite important to switch winners often. The ball should bounce back and forth from one party to the other frequently, allowing each winning party to dump the other party’s actual accomplishments when they take over.

However, just as important, the new winning party does not rescind the more oppressive accomplishments of the previous party. In this way, it becomes possible for the only long-term accomplishments to be the growing power of the government over the population, not advances for the populace.

And of course, this, by definition, means that the real rulers, the perennial group of individuals who control those who are elected – continually expand their power and wealth at the expense of the electorate.

But what of the candidates themselves? Do they recognise that they’re mere foot soldiers in the game?

Ideally, no. At any given time in any society, there are sufficient people whose egos exceed their abilities. Such individuals are ideal as candidates, as they tend to love the limelight, but will easily cave to the desires of those who made their candidacy possible. No candidate at the higher levels ever attains office without owing his soul to his backers. That ensures that, in spite of their public bravado, they remain controllable by their masters.

What’s extraordinary in this picture is that it’s possible for the populace to figure out the scam and yet, still believe that they live in a democratic system in which their vote may decide the future of the country.

Increasingly, particularly in Europe and North America, the citizenry are becoming aware that the Deep State collectively rule the countries. They understand that this largely invisible group of people are the true rulers, yet they vainly imagine that somehow the puppet leaders that they elect have the power to effect a solution.

In the UK, the electorate imagine that Boris Johnson will actually take them out of the European Union.

Instead, he delivers a Brexit deal that’s a reheated version of the Theresa May Brexit deal, which is not Brexit at all, but a perverse form of remain.

The Brexit debate is mere window dressing for democracy, whilst the Deep State carries on, according to its plan – the unelected EU government rules the UK.

In America, Donald Trump tweets in the morning that he will take US troops out of Syria. No doubt, as an individual, this is what he hopes he’ll be allowed to do.

But he’s immediately castigated by the media. He’s given his marching orders from the Deep State that, once again, he’s to do as he’s told. By the next day, Mister Trump announces a reversal of his decision.

There will be no end to the Middle East war for the US. It’s far too profitable. The discussion is mere window dressing for democracy, whilst the Deep State carries on, according to its plan.

Time after time, regardless of how adamant the marionettes are that they’ll follow the will of the people and save the day, in every case, the people’s hopes are dashed and the national policy reverts to business as usual.

In every case, the true leaders create the problems, cash in on them, then present the government as the solution to the problems, then cash in again.

In every case, the electorate pick up the tab and, rather than rebel, vainly hope that the next election will provide them with a group of marionettes who will actually deliver them from evil.

What’s astonishing is not that the Deep State lives only for its own ends, but that the populace recognise that it exists and still imagine that change from the status quo is possible.

Voting is not intended to count. It’s meant to be the pacifier that’s inserted into the public mouth periodically, when the public become grumpy that they must submit to kings.

Editor’s Note: Democracy offers a false sense of hope that things will change for the better. In all likelihood, the public will vote itself more and more “free stuff” until it causes an economic crisis.

Unfortunately, there’s little any individual can practically do to change the course of these trends in motion.

The best you can and should do is to stay informed so that you can protect yourself in the best way possible, and even profit from the situation.

That’s precisely bestselling author Doug Casey and his team just released an urgent new video. It explains what exactly is happening and how you can protect yourself. Click here to watch it now.

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Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

You say that Marxism is the very antithesis of Capitalism, which is equally sacred to us. It is precisely for this reason that they are direct opposites to one another, that they put into our hands the two poles of this planet and allow us to be it’s Axis. These two contraries, like Bolshevism and ourselves, have their identity in the Comintern.
Otto Kahn 1869-1934. Partner in Kuhn Loeb.

Uncola

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Lindsay Graham says: “Hey Everybody! Inspector General Horowitz’s report on the FISA Abuse, that was perpetuated by obscure minions in the FBI, is due on December 9, 2019! It’s gonna be great!

SDNY and FBI says: “Awesome! Thanks for the warning! This is fantastic! We better get busy! Hey! Let’s subpoena the records of the personal attorney to POTUS, Rudy G., for an investigation into possible money laundering, obstruction of justice and campaign-finance violations! Yeah, that’s the ticket! This way we will make headlines which make waves that neutralize, so the public will remain paralyzed and confused as the swamp NEVER gets drained and the Ship of State travels to toward a New World Order! Thank you, Senator Graham!”

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Uncola

Ex-White House Counsel Must Testify in Impeachment, Judge Rules

In a ruling that could reshape the balance of power between Congress and the executive branch, U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled that McGahn, who spent 30 hours talking to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, can’t hide behind Trump’s claim that he is “absolutely immune” from speaking to Congress.

Justice Department lawyers had argued that “absolute immunity,” a designation reserved for a select few members of the president’s inner circle, is essential to protecting the president’s ability to seek candid advice from his top advisers. They also insisted the federal courts had no role trying to get between a dispute between the other two branches of government.

But Jackson, an appointee of President Barack Obama, rejected both arguments.

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

Pequiste
Pequiste

Quelle surprise!

Anonymous
Anonymous

Ignore the order. Appeal it all the way.
Bad enough we have (((connected corrupt judges and DA’s))) as part of the cabal,
now we have the arrogant rogue liberal ones appointed by a man and his man husband
who absolutely hate conservative republicans. Infestation of vermin runs deep.
So much for the deck being stacked against blacks and women gaining positions of power. Rogue Robes. And fugly to boot.

The wonder of it all
The wonder of it all

I smell Obongo s lingering odor

Not Sure

I can’t give 2 upvotes, so the next best thing is to post as to why this is such a powerful comment. The one consistent trend I’ve seen since Trumps election, are the endless promises of justice soon to be served, only to be let down, due to the higher priority of helping our alphabet agencies to save face by burying the cancer. Nothing to see here, move on.

It had become readily apparent years ago that the rot in the different agencies required a thorough purging to remove the deep state enablers of a globalist government, but all we ended up with were the corrupted agencies charged with cleaning out the corrupted operators; like that’s gonna happen.

In the beginning, Trump was an unknown variable, but today, he has shown himself to be an honorable man in pursuing his agenda, but intending to do so within the realm of law that the swamp creatures fully know how to manipulate to their own benefit.

I’m expecting fireworks on December 9th and then business as usual on December 10th. Merry Christmas.

piearesquared
piearesquared

Jeff Thomas certainly hit the nail on the head with this post. Of course he is not the first to say this. Many others including Carroll Quigley have said similar things before. But Thomas says it better than anyone else I have seen. I have known this for a long time, but I have to admit (as I have said here before) that initially I thought Trump might actually be different because he wasn’t a career politician, and appeared to really intend to keep his campaign promises. But alas I got fooled, but I won’t get fooled again. But in my defense, many other people also got fooled by Trump, and many are still fooled.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

“Voting gives us an opportunity to choose from options that were chosen for us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You want to know about voting. I’m here to tell you about voting. Imagine you’re locked in a huge underground night-club filled with sinners, whores, freaks and unnameable things that rape pitbulls for fun. And you ain’t allowed out until you all vote on what you’re going to do tonight. You like to put your feet up and watch “Republican Party Reservation”. They like to have sex with normal people using knives, guns, and brand new sexual organs you did not even know existed. So you vote for television, and everyone else, as far as your eye can see, votes to fuck you with switchblades. That’s voting. You’re welcome.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

“When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can’t ever be voted out of existence.”
― Larken Rose

“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.”
― Giuseppe Prezzolini

“You know your vote doesn’t count, but you go through the motions, because it’s been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference.”
― Marshall Karp, The Rabbit Factory

“Presidents are selected, not elected.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same interests are represented.”
― George Seldes

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

“There will be no effective change until the masses move away from voting Republican or Democrat and start voting for a party that represents the people and not corporations.”
― Steven Magee

Vote Harder
Vote Harder

Voting is not intended to count. It’s meant to be the pacifier that’s inserted into the public mouth periodically, when the public become grumpy that they must submit to kings.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Recently seen on a bumper sticker,

“Be nice to US, or we’ll bring democracy to your country.”

Anonymous
Anonymous

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There’s a reason why things have gotten so devisive over the last few years.comment imagecomment image

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

“A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.”

― LYSANDER SPOONER

Anonymous
Anonymous

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Jaz
Jaz

Think of where society (as a whole) is today versus 20 years ago. Now, think of what has led to those changes and what will have to happen to resolve the problems.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Government, and most specifically government power, has been the root cause of ALL of the horrible societal changes we have seen over the past 200 years (why only go back 20?). The solution has always been clear.
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Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia

The San Andreas Fault is on the wrong side the country. As much as I would love to see California disappear into he ocean magnitude 9 earthquake, I think we’d be better off if DC and New York slide under the Atlantic instead.

Cara
Cara

Another hidden fact about democracy is the fact that the real powers that be are better protected under a voted upon president as the majority of the people united pose the greatest threat to the real powers that be. Placate the majority with a person they chose and chances decline of a an armed revolution.

Politicians are placators. Tell them what they want to hear, then do what your are told by your secret society masters that funded your campaign. Ocassionally, their puppet takes too much flak and they simply replace them with another beholden placator and shift the focus to something or someone else while continuing their same agenda.

Gavin Newsom is a good example right now in California. Everyone wants him gone. Everyone hates the gas tax. If he gets replaced, they will simply replace him with another death-sworn robot.

Usury, secrecy, and nepotism are the real reasons we can’t MAGA. End the “federal” reserve after the wall and mass deportations is hopefully Trumps’ plan, but who’s to say another president can’t simply EO to tear it down?

Many are saying a multi-generational, New York, high-society billionaire with global businesses and acting lessons would have to be beholden. High society is usually secret society and you literally have to be a billionaire to even be an eligible candidate. Obama has deported more than Trump. No new wall has been erected, only replacement of existing, dillapidated walls.

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