The question is: What are they hiding?
And you are absolutely right: We will fight this war with them at the ballot box, but we cannot afford to lose.
What are they hiding?
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Not to sound flippant, but the answer is likely EVERYTHING.
Just like shrinks go into psychiatry to diagnose/cure themselves, those of us obsessed with geopolitics and the elite networks have lived our lives with that gnawing certainty that there is _something more_.
The only things that consistently explain the disconnect is the existence of a network of the compromised, paid and coerced to further the accumulation of wealth and power among the 2nd and 3rd tiers of what we refer to as The Deep State.
These folks are the ones who do much of the actual work for the string-pullers. The people, for example, who get multi-million advances for books no one reads as a way to pay them off for whatever they have accomplished to benefit the Owners. The talentless elevated to stardom just because they are successful at influencing clueless gits. The vapid touted as deep thinkers paid only to implant nonsense in the otherwise empty heads of the consuming masses.
The are hiding their own collusion, their own gutlessness, their own lack of any visible talent or real accomplishment not handed off in payment for furthering the agenda and deepening the hooks of the Owners into the body politic of the planet.
Yes, these minions have committed crimes of all sorts, engaged in perversions and allowed themselves to be manipulated. They sold their souls, not to the Devil, but to those who worship the Devil. Whatever they received in compensation, in their own hearts they know how worthless they are, how unable to exist in a world where true skill and cognition are required. They are not only nonessential, they are pitifully inept in anything they cannot call upon their benefactors to fix for them.
All of us can and do work at times for these types. All they have is ill-gotten gains. The can’t even barter abilities in the real world. Instead, they purchase our abilities with the monies paid by the Owners for services rendered.
Most of those services consist of being elevated to a position where they are able to tout the goals of their masters to credible schnooks in order to perpetuate an illusion of democracy.
Imagine how helpless they must feel as the curtains turn transparent. How hard would anyone fight to maintain an illusion of their own worth? Not to mention the insecurity of facing a day when one’s own ineptitude is glaringly revealed. If the con ends, so do all these sideshow barkers.
And the con is ending. Trump is ultimately responsible, of course, but he has succeeded in awakening the masses and that awakening is (pardon the pun) viral.
It’s no more than that. None of these actors, including the puppeteers, have some deep, dark, TOE raison d’etre. It’s just the grimy terror of being exposed as nasty frauds.
Sometimes I wish it was more. Who wouldn’t want to uncover something HUGE? Just look at the players. How could these self-aggrandizing fools be part of something foundational or impactful?
It’s just a long con. And the first rule of cons is never admit the con.
JMO