Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the elite of all stripes want, and in fact need to have us factionalized, to limit our power to resist their usurpations. The way is by manipulating us through the press, to think each other evil… but not our all loving big brother government. As the media demagogues ordinary people as haters, racists, homophobes, transphobes, white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, insurrectionists, radical right wingers, etc… Every slur applied to the regular man, separates us into factions, creates hostility towards each other and increases the power of the strong to oppress the weak. As long as we fall for the bait, and hate each other based on criteria the elite have provided for us, we will always lose. The elite will always win. People are not our enemies, the system is.
The media has lost the last vestiges of fairness and truth. No sane person believes a word out of their mouths anymore. Liars, caught over and over, lose credibility. That is simply the way it works. The fabricated story about George Bush’s military record was brazen, bold and bullshit. The mockingbird media ran with it… until a blogger pointed out, the font the document was written in was not created until several decades after it was written. Caught in a huge lie, the media forgot about it… and so did most people. The lies since then have become more brazen, more bold and even more bullshit. Today the press tells us with a straight face, the secrets leaked, that our government is lying to us constantly about everything, are irrelevant, instead, the fact they were leaked is paramount.
The elite call us names constantly in ways subtle and obvious. The person called a hater by the elite is both vilified and cornered. Those not called haters, look to stay outside that classification, and so hate the hater. Because that is what you do. Each slur the elite use on us, separates us further and creates animosity between us. I am of the opinion that no man is my enemy, the system that encourages the elite to become evil, on the other hand, is my mortal foe. People are people, good, bad and indifferent, but the systems in place to limit the power of the elite to become bat shit crazy, have failed us. Instead the elite have, as Madison warned against in federalist Paper #10, created one faction to control them all… the media, medicine, corporations, the executive, judicial, legislature, and bureaucracy.
Demagoguing the everyman only works as long as we don’t see behind the curtain. Once we know our anger is because outsiders are talking trash about our peeps, and not because of anything our peeps did to us… our attitudes change. Lets face it, you and I disagree on a host of things, but we agree on one thing. We want the lot of Mankind improved… for everyone. That is not a small thing. How do I know this? Because almost everyone gives to charity in one way or another. Being charitable is a vote for the betterment of Mankind. No matter what side that vote is cast for. Our challenge then is to get people to see we are being played. If your not in the game, your the mark… and we are the marks. The first step to stop being a pigeon is to wake up to the game. People are not our enemies, the elite are.
Machiavelli said that the power of the aristocracy is limited, because the aristocracy are few, while the power of the people is great, because the number of the people is great. That democratic power however is limited, in that a host of people must be marshaled into service, for the democratic element to overwhelm the aristocratic. Demagoguery is one way the elite, the aristocracy, keep us factionalized and thus limit our power to resist them. Because they have read Machiavelli, rest assured, and they are conniving to play us against each other. How else could the elite be normalizing pedophilia, shutting down our energy and forcing farms to close? No regular Joe wants people to freeze, go hungry or see kids molested. That is being foisted on us by the elite. Instead, be wise as a serpent…
Sincerely,
John Pepin
