Transparency Is Toxic To Corruptocracy

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, in politics as in life, the corrupt usually win. This is because the corrupt are willing to break the rules to gain the edge. While civilized people learned in their terrible twos to follow the rules. Those who don’t, as long as their shenanigans are not found out, enjoy an advantage. That’s why so many corporate CEOs, politicians and bureaucrats are psychopaths. They are willing to break the rules, when it suits them, but exploit those same rules to hinder everyone else. Their lack of ethics, in this case, gives a leg up to the immoral. Often however, the corrupt have to move once they have been discovered to be dirtbags. So they move somewhere else. Then start their swindling all over again. There is no place where this paradigm is more true, than in politics, where appearances trump reality.

While the virtuous are held back by ethics, the corrupt are not, giving them a huge advantage in every interaction. Lies are very effective, at manipulating people into doing things that are against their self interest, and in the interest of the liar. That is the basis for bunko crime. A swindler sells something they don’t own, misrepresent a thing or otherwise gain the confidence of the victim to take advantage. The whole game is based on a lie. When lies are effective, the corrupt are kings. Anyplace where someone can lie and get away with it the virtuous don’t stand a chance. You can rest assured that no one of merit, quality or honesty will survive long in such a situation. If your not in the game, your a mark, the honest are the marks, not the successful.

Politics is where corruption really glistens, like sewage in Moonlight. A faction that controls the media as well as the bureaucracy is untouchable. They decide who is charged, and for what, even as their press boot licks carry their water for them. The only way to achieve such a hegemony in government is to be utterly ruthless, single minded and profoundly corrupt. Since in politics lies are rewarded and truth is punished, both criminally and at the ballot box, the truthful must walk over frozen plowed earth, while liars on the other hand, have the road graded and paved before them. We can say then that politics is based on lies. Politicians sell us that which they don’t own, misrepresent things as their opposite, and pretend to be that which they patently are not.

Since politics and fraud intersect, is it out of the realm of possibility that politics itself, is a form of bunko? A swindle? Where we are told lies to manipulate us? I can think of a few things we are told is true that are not. Elections are free and fair is laughable. With mail in election fraud, anywhere there is unaccountable mail in voting, especially bonded with state sanctioned ballot harvesting, the elite decide who wins… not the electorate. Law is equally applied, is another joke we are expected to believe… despite the evidence of our eyes. Hillary was given a pass for her CCP monitored email server, wiping the hard drive along with a myriad of other crimes. Now there is the example of the Hunter Biden slap on the wrist… compared to the Jan 6 protesters and Trump’s unending political indictments.

The answer to corruption is transparency. If people see the truth of how corrupt our rulers are, we would revolt immediately, because it is so revolting. That’s why transparency is so detested by the elite. I suspect that’s why Fox is paying Tucker Carlson millions of dollars, to shut him up. Even filing lawsuits against him for having a Twitter VLOG? How much do you think hegemony is worth? To control the regulatory apparatus, exploit the trillions government spends, and the ability to criminally punish your enemies? To a corruptocrat such power is worth their very soul. The answer is transparency, corruption dies in the light, it grows in the dark. So shine a light on it. Talk about it… to everyone. Demand absolute transparency, do away with state secrets, and settle for nothing less.

Sincerely,

John Pepin