Dear Friends,
It seems to me, while we the people have the most political power, ours is diverse and easily divided, thus neutralizing it altogether. The elite know this and use it against us constantly. Like I meant in my article, The Fallacy of Faction, the elite divide us into ever smaller factions, pit those factions against each other, while their faction, new class progressives, amass power because of our infighting. Machiavellian in more than just implementation but of design as well, the elite have moved us far away from where we the people, want our nation to be. We do not seek the destruction of the nuclear family, millions of abortions a year, an ever lowering standard of living, the destruction of the nation state, outright socialism, nor to be oppressors or oppressed. I bet if asked, almost everyone would agree we need less of those things and stronger families, less abortions, a higher standard of living and self determination, The goals are not very much different between the run of the mill democrat and republican, we only differ in the team we choose to get us there, but in doing so we empower those who work at cross interest to our unified goals.
Machiavelli said that the people have the most political power, and that a wise prince will seek to side with the people, not the aristocracy. A charismatic prince can hold the people to his or her banner and wield them as an overwhelmingly powerful political tool. The aristocracy on the other hand must seek to weakening that power in order to keep secure their own political power. The best way to break the power of the people is to factionalize them. Create arbitrary groups, tribes, and pit them against each other. The trouble with capitalism though is that the market system, and the mindset it creates, tends to marginalize all attributes other than ability to pay. That is one of the reasons the new aristocracy, the new class, seek to marginalize the ignorant masses by factionalizing us.
The cultural elite use every deception and manipulation the study of psychiatry has given them to create disunity in our culture. They take the smallest, most eccentric segment of the population and elevate their wants above the good of society, as a means to factionalize us. The obvious example is men in women’s bathrooms. Such an absurd cause to champion when there are real problems in our world that are and will continue to cause human suffering can only be entertained by someone either psychopathic or one who believes the ends justify the means. Many who know in their hearts the policy is bad, are willing to fight tooth and nail because that absurd policy helps an oppressed segment. The result is a powerful issue to split people, conceived and implemented by the cultural elite.
The media elite manipulate us into believing lies and disbelieving truths. Any story can be made to say anything the storyteller wants. The story of Little Red Riding hood is told many different ways to make many different morals. In a few she eats her own grandmother, in some she is saved by wash women and others she is saved by a handsome huntsman. Very subtle changes change the whole thrust and meaning of the story. The media that calls itself unbiased works in this fashion. They omit critical information, add opinion in the form of adjectives and adverbs with a political bent. Calling abortion, choice, or murder, are examples of a biased use of adverbs, equally denoting a bias on either side of the scale. This is done by the media elite to separate us by any number of ways, our religions, skin color, language and politics.
The government elite pass spurious regulations like a bird breathes. Every regulation is necessary and will solve an urgent need of society… or so we are told. Every year the ball gets moved a little further down the field towards tyranny and away from liberty. We are lambasted, if we disagree the way to limit the power of the elite is to hand them more power, as haters and showing our privilege. What we are never told, only left to surmise for ourselves, is that the new regulations are almost always addressing a problem created by old regulations! Problem reaction solution at work. All of which divides us weakening our collective political power.
The only real way to undermine the elite’s factionalizing us… is to practice courtesy, thankfulness, be undiscriminating in our love, inner harmony, filial service, human heartedness, pragmatism and charity. It is hard to hate those you have chosen to love, anger is like a bulldozer in a swamp in the heart that is tranquil. We must pattern our love of others after the selfless love of the family. Keep in our minds, “There before the grace of God go I,” whenever we look down on another, for whatever reason, for if we were born into their circumstances we might not have ended up as well off. It is only through loving each other that we can overcome our divisions. There will always be divisions, I might want to walk around the right side to close the door, and you might want to walk around the left side, but we both want the barn door closed… as long as we love, respect and value each other the door will get closed, and we will not be at loggerheads keeping it open forever.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
