Elites. It's all about how to manage the masses.
Politics and government itself, to elites, is just a public face for control. Something for the masses to get riled up about and throw tomotoes at. To the elites, they are like hired managers working for them.
Some Democrat and most Republican party leaders in the States and counties and towns really do not see what's going on.
Let's step through it:
a) an idea starts floating around the state to "consolidate services" to save money
b) local politicians in towns and counties dive in to the competition - am I for it ? Against it ? What's good about it, what's bad ?
c) local politicians, like a sailor up in the rigging, try to get their feet under them, get a sense for what their electorate feels about the issue.
d) in all the hubbub, NO ONE thinks to ask the tiny little question, who first floated that idea ? And then, why ? Is this policy one step in a bigger plan or is it just an idea all on its own ?
The entire game is difficult to get your mind around, because it's played in many dimensions.
Take the USSR. It's really a rule of the masses by elites. Was it our enemy ? Well, on a political level, yes - we immediately think of it as the evil empire since it's political ideology is statist and it maintained an aggressive military stance. But the elites' level encompasses government and many other levels. To them, the government and laws inside the USSR was neither here nor there; the USSR simply represented a captive market.
Search around for articles on Ford's plant at Gorky, started in 1932 in Stalin's USSR, coincidentally after the first "5-year plan" (go figure). If you continue to research, you'll find that various corporations that did business globally continued to do business with the USSR throughout it's duration.
We must remember that elitists also view the American government, law and people with the same ambivolence, and that they also are largely of the school of thought that they need to control "the masses". They essentially see the world as a big thing that they run, and there are some very basic ideas that they know that masses never think about - because, like the illusionist, they have distracted us with, in this case, politics. They know that if you control the formative years, that is, children, you will eventually have an entire population that you can control. Since they have changed the education system into almost pure mind control at this point, there simply is no political solution in "elections". It is most definitely not a shift in the racial makeup of the nation that is overwhelming the polls, it's the mind control. Regardless of the race of the child, when they come out of public schools, they are thoroughly indoctrinated and they have been conditioned to respond to stimuli. Quite simply, if those who can still think do not fight in that plane of battle - the upbringing of children - they will lose by default. You have to show up at the battle in order to win.
Voting is an elixir which satiates the appetite for hiring and firing leaders. You don't like that politician - elect someone else ! Hooray !
Trouble is, elitists know that control is easily gained in elections by those who decide who appears on the ballot. Not only that, once elected, any politician who desires a second term of office is about as susceptible to corrupting influences as the gazelle is to the hungry lion for supper. When any issue comes up, the elected politician is 99% of the time not an expert themselves in that issue or certain aspects of the issue. They seek out expert advice. Note, however, that the experts are a) not elected, b) unknown by the general public and, most importantly, c) offering their advice to politicians that come and go, while they stay in their coveted position as long as they wish to. Any time you ask "where did that idea come from", invariably the trail leads back through academia, activists, unions, big business and, by whichever route, ultimately to the grand plans of elitism. And the grand plans always, when you get down to it, exhibit a never-ending pursuit of control of the individual through some murky mixture of cronyism, profiteering, control and rationing. And somehow accountability of the elites to the people for how well their grand plans work is oddly absent from the grand plan, as is any mechanism for the populace to make a choice of their own that was not provided to them by the elites.
As far as showing up at the battle, it is time for those that can still think to take a few steps back from politics, and start showing up at the right place, activism that permeates social insitutions and reaches out to the blind and gives them sight. Once a person is set free, they never want to be a slave again. (By the way, that is one of the primary drivers of voters toward liberal causes; they are slaves to immorality). Just as in the USSR where vodka was an essential ingredient to keeping the population under control, all the vices in America are used to keep its population under control. Once you turn your back on the vices, and those desires inside you die, you feel like a great weight has been lifted from you, and you break out into the light of day. You start being able to use your mind to think and understand, and you realize you were not "free" to commit your vices, you were enslaved by them.
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