Dear Friends,
It makes no sense to me, the same people who expect Eagle Pass Texas, a town of thirty thousand, can accept twelve thousand illegal immigrants a week, and that’s perfectly acceptable… yet also firmly believe that New York City, with a population of nine million, is completely overwhelmed by ten thousand a year? Moreover, New York is a self declared sanctuary city. No wonder they’re so angry all the time. The cognitive dissonance must be mind rending. Add to it the unfiltered hypocrisy of not wanting illegals to live near them, or on Martha’s Vineyard, yet expect others to… and you have a recipe for a deep mental illness. The human brain isn’t meant to be warped into such an absurd space. The illegal immigration issue alone highlights the situation the elite have got themselves into.
Politics is never a sphere, encompassing everyone’s benefit, it’s twisted and bent along the lines of special interests. A Venn diagram of universal interests would necessarily be a circle or sphere. Special interests however most often are at odds with the general welfare. So they would trace lines within the circle of general welfare, including only the interests of the favored that’s bought the politician, and excluding the general welfare. That politician therefore, must pay heed to the interests that purchased him or her, against the interests of the general. Contorting themselves into it. A politician who doesn’t bend to special interests, can breathe deeply, until the gobs of money arrayed against her gets her voted out of office, in favor of he who’s willing to squeeze in.
To fit in such a space one has to contort him or herself. Warping them in mind, body and spirit. The question then becomes, how to twist the desires of the special interest, and against the general welfare, into a manipulation that makes it sound like it’s for the general interest? War for example. The Hegelian dialectic has been very successful. Exploit resources in the media to claim we’re under attack. Then use the outrage you ginned up to fuel the war you wanted. Sending the children of the patsies to die for cheaper bananas. To believe, or force oneself to believe, such actions aren’t evil, one has to segmentalize their consciousness. Else their conscience would destroy them via their super ego. We all have to think of ourselves as the good guy… even as we commit atrocities.
That’s why the longer someone is in politics the more crooked they become. They’ve had to squeeze into some pretty tight spaces. The more someone segmentalizes their consciousness, the easier it becomes, until they have no conscience whatsoever. Eventually becoming so crooked, when they die, they’ll have to be screwed into the ground. Why would a person who’s tirelessly worked against the interests of mankind, for a special interest, be bothered by a little insider trading, bribery or perverting democracy? They wouldn’t. That’s why they’re so corrupt. Selling one’s soul warps the spirit as much as the mind. Once the soul is gone, the sky’s the limit, of crime. Such corrupt people get along fine until they’re threatened with discovery. Then they act as a unit to cancel the threat, like an immune system.
If politics warps, and power corrupts, then how twisted and putrid must our elites be? The examples of illegal immigration, covid, the response to it, the attacks on democracy, free speech and law itself prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, our elites are as crooked as a spring. To not see what they’re doing though, now that projects stupidity, by searchlight. Replacing them is a temporary fix. The incentives will bend anyone who slides into that brake, the answer is to limit the power of the elite, all elites. Political interests will forever warp people to their will, and as long as the power to benefit the politically favored at cost to the whole, is in the hands of politicians, judges and bureaucrats, those incentives wont change. Take the power, create consequences, punish corruption, and that’ll be a start.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
