After the MIC scam post, I wanted to comment more broadly on the phenomenon of political scams and how I think things probably work, if we could know what’s behind the curtain.
As I’ve said over and over, the reason for the existence of governments is to transfer wealth and power from the productive class to the political class. I think this is pretty obvious if you can filter out the propaganda and look at things for what they are. That fact changes the way societies naturally function. As the political class grows in wealth and power, the productive class become more subservient to them. There’s really no way around it and the political class does everything they can to guarantee that. I know a business owner very well who once owned a defense contracting company. Business was good until his partner, a former Navy procurement officer, was caught conspiring with a current procurement officer to secure contracts unlawfully. The partner did jail time and the company was finished.
The problem wasn’t that the partner was winning contracts illegally, the problem was that he was taking the contracts away from the established players and one of them called him out. That’s what law is for; keeping the game in order. Breaking the law is fine as long as you’re a member of the Big Club and playing by the rules. If you aren’t a club member and/or you aren’t keeping in line, the law will be used against you. Governments, especially national governments and even more especially the US federal government (“even more especially”, because it controls the world’s reserve currency and can steal more than any other), is a highly curated and internally disciplined mega-money gravy train that’s too profitable to the Club Members to allow it to be derailed by late-comers, do-gooders or savages.
It’s tempting to blame the participants in the Political Scam Machine, like Facebook and Twitter for their censorship, Google for political interference, Pfizer for its treat-the-symptoms-not-the-cause business model, Lockheed Martin for pushing for perpetual war, the SEIA for climate change lobbying and the Big Banking Cartel, or any others involved. But that’s the insidious genius of the Political Scam Machine; the more successful you get, the more you’re forced into participating in the scams. If your biggest competitor is in the Big Club, but you aren’t, they’re going to be able to use that leverage to out-perform you or maybe even to defeat and destroy you. They’ll get subsidies and you won’t. They’ll get preferential regulation and you won’t. They’ll get government contracts and you won’t. They’ll get exemptions and you won’t. You may be inclined to stand on principle and refuse to play, but you have hundreds of families, including your own, whose well-being depends on the continued success of your business, customers or clients who depend on your goods and services and vendors or suppliers whose success depends, to some extent, on your success. Think about the blood, sweat and tears that countless people paid into the success of the business, including your own. Think about how proud you are of your success and the opportunities and quality of life it’s given you, your family and so many others. How many people would be willing to risk all of that for a moral principle? That’s just the risk. I haven’t mentioned the great benefits the Big Club offers! You think you’re successful and well-respected now? Just wait until you’re in the Big Club!
The big players, whether they want to or not, are sucked into the machine. Once you’re in, and the political class says, “Let’s run a scam. We’ll tell everyone there’s this scary virus. We’ll make tens of billions of dollars, but we all have to stay in line to make it work…”, what are you going to say? No? Maybe you would, but they’d make you wish you hadn’t and you know that.
Covid-19, Climate Change, the War Machine, the Federal Reserve, virtually all of the Healthcare Industry, Big Ag/Big Pharma; all scams designed and implemented by the political class to transfer wealth and power to themselves from the productive class. The more profitable the scams become, the more attractive they are to the smartest and most ambitious of those with pathological personalities. It’s easy to understand why. We all see the mountains of money redistributed by and to terrible people and the fantastic lives they live because of it. We should all be able to see the temptation to just say to hell with principle! We won’t need principle when we’re rich!
Until recently, I think the political class has been too afraid to try these ostentatious mega-scams like Covid-19, the war in Ukraine and Isreal, Climate Change, etc., because they underestimated the effectiveness of their own propaganda, how dumbed-down and tribal the citizenry has become and how little public support matters.
The political scam machine is hardly a new phenomenon, but it’s entered a golden age of unprecedented success. Eventually, the pendulum will swing, but before that happens, many people will have gotten very wealthy and powerful from their operations. You gotta get while the gettin’s good and, right now, the gettin’s very good.
