Plutocracy

Why don’t people realize our plutocracy causes our problems?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Why don’t people realize that it is plutocracy (our country being governed by the wealthy elite) that is causing our economic problems?”

People don’t magically “realize things.”

People must be educated, informed, and aware of circumstances and details.

They need to be walked through the information presented to them as if one functions as a guide on a tour, answering questions.

People also don’t respond to laments, particularly when entrenched in counterfactual bigotries that prevent them from apprehending reality through an objective lens.

In essence, if this is an issue of concern for you, which I’m glad to see it is, then you need to start banging drums and sharing information and details because there are at least 76 million people in the U.S. alone who are entirely so oblivious to what you’ve determined for yourself that they contribute to the problems caused by the plutocracy.

There are many reasons why many people support self-and-socially destructive agendas, and most of those reasons can generally fall into only a few camps:

  1. They benefit directly from the corruption,
  2. They interpret the economic problems of the victims of a corrupt system as personal failings,
  3. They imagine themselves as potential beneficiaries of corrupt powers by supporting them,
  4. They lack the wherewithal to do anything about the corruption, so they cope with what they don’t believe they can change by resigning to hate the more easily victimized,
  5. They support what they believe is a natural state of a zero-sum existence encapsulated as a butchered interpretation of life often referred to as the “law of the jungle,” in which there are only predators and prey in this world,
  6. They’re psychologically dysfunctional — which is an explanation that applies to all the preceding points,
  7. Their education is woefully lacking — which also applies to all preceding points and leads back to the onus placed on those who know better by providing the support necessary to make positive change while also receiving a reminder that lamenting the sad state of affairs does nothing to change them. It does, however, give the broken among us a target to jeer and mock and use as an example to justify their corrupt interpretations of life.

Now, arm yourself with the information you need to fight as a keyboard warrior and do something more productive than issue lamentations to elevate humanity from this dank pit of misanthropy.

Good luck in this war for basic human decency.

Why do citizens consider themselves to be R or D?

America’s Favourite Team Sport

It’s by design. We have been deliberately manipulated into warring camps by the modern equivalent of bread and circuses to keep all the little people engaged in being cheerleaders to distract from addressing real issues to make our lives better.

Making our lives better by solving real-world problems instead of manufactured non-problems would result in smaller hoards of wealth for those who already have too much wealth.

Sadly, they have also cultivated the belief that there is no such thing as “too much wealth”. Most people extrapolate from their impoverished conditions to believe there can never be enough wealth — which, to some degree is true, just not for individuals.

Fighting a Culture War to Stop You From Fighting a Class War

People are essentially forced into one of two camps by shutting out parties beyond the two parties dominating the U.S. political landscape.

Limiting the political environment into two warring camps just makes it easier for the oligarchs to control the chaos in ways that ensure we remain distracted from their machinations as they focus on strategies for invisibly extracting microscopic amounts of blood from our bodies so that we won’t know when we’ve been weakened too much to save ourselves.

We are treated like frogs in a pot of water with a carefully monitored temperature to ensure we sweat our value out in their service while rendered too weak and distracted to fight back and save ourselves.

To survive our hardships, we turn to those who share our struggles and our values and since our options have been limited to two oppositional camps while the media owned by the oligarchs feed us conflict porn to escalate our tribal affinities and condition us to treat our neighbours like enemy combatants who must be eradicated or die at their hands.

The more we entrench ourselves into a caricature of team sports cheerleaders, the happier the plutocrats are because that frees them up to concoct creative strategies for extracting more value from all of us like the parasites they are.

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