Posted on 03/12/2023 5:22:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
More Americans grasp how the U.S. government actually works. Large corporate interests pay off politicians and bureaucrats to advance their financial interests. In return, those politicians and bureaucrats are responsible for creating new problems for the American people that can be exploited to justify spending huge sums of money — the bulk of which falls into the laps of the large corporate interests.
The pharmaceutical industry, for instance, would love for lawmakers to mandate that Americans purchase and use their products in perpetuity. Big Pharma then pays hospitals, research scientists, and medical doctors to push its products. It privately funds public health agencies, while rewarding ostensibly objective bureaucrats with research grants and promises of future lucrative employment. Through its lobbying arms, Big Pharma fills the campaign coffers and family foundations of elected officials and works hand in glove with lawmakers to craft legislation that simultaneously expands Big Pharma's profits and lawmakers' personal stock portfolios. Lawmakers who refuse to play this corrupt game end up becoming the electoral targets of all those extra dollars in industry profits, and the stick-or-carrot system
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I have no interest in this kind of future, but the first step to liberating ourselves from certain dystopia is understanding and accepting that the government is always lying. It does not consider telling the truth a civic or moral duty; rather, it believes in disseminating "narratives" that are most beneficial to its own grip on power. Those who advance farthest in government are not honest people, and their trickle-down dishonesty corrupts everyone around them. In politics and war, the lowest common denominator tends to win out. There is a race to the bottom in which ruthless violence and abject immorality succeed while honor and principle are rejected. As Representative Burchett from Tennessee recently acknowledged, congressional ethics doesn't exist.
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Fauci is the perfect example of this corruption.
I really think that government employees should be considered to always be under oath. Any lie is perjury and needs to be prosecuted. Any federal employee who fails to fully prosecute a lying federal employee should be prosecuted. Work it up the chain so that these rats don't protect each other.
A truly Good Faith effort to tell the truth should always be mandated. Currently, law schools teach students to "lie well" as an essential job skill. Instead, law schools should teach students to "be always honest".
No more Clintonian "it depends on what the meaning of is is". The concept of "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" should be taken seriously. No more dodging questions in front of Congress. Answer the question. If the questioner says it's "Yes or No" then answer "Yes or No" or face possible jail time.
One advantage of this would be that a great many people would be scared away from government jobs and government would have to be smaller.
Big Pharma wants us to pay big prices for slightly improved drugs.
They often exaggerate and sometimes misuse opportunities to grasp more power and money.
In DC their salaries are often absurdly high.
This reminds me of the practice in academia where a professor write a book and then a couple years later comes out with a “new edition” that has almost no substantive changes, but requires the new version for their course when the old would suffice.
The fattest, most entertained and comfortable people to ever exist are not going to care that they are in a dystopia as long as they remain fat, entertained and comfortable.
Freegards
But, on the other hand, Our complacent, corrupt, fearful society has so much "stuff" that they will accept anything and everything the government does to them because if they "rock the boat", they may "lose everything". Maybe it's not good to have a lot of "stuff". Freedom's just another word for Nothing Left To Lose, and we are not free anymore because we have so much to lose.
Politics offers no way out because its moves too slow for an entrenched bureaucracy that protects itself from enemies real or imagined.
It seems that way but the alternatives to that seem to be morally unacceptable.
Non-violent resistance leads to violent resistance the Civil Rights protests of the 1960’s descended into that. Were feds involved?
It’s time for the Conservatives-Religious to stop “jerking around” literally and figuratively.
A closer connection to the Higher Authority is in order but gaslighting media that calls itself Conservative poisons sane and sober living the rage generated by it is counterproductive to personal or national renewal.
Beyond that each person must get sane and sober the vices must be abandoned to strengthen the moral fiber of those who claim to defend the Constitution or tradition etc. etc.
Social unrest usually starts with the poorest people being dissatisfied, for just the reasons you state. But there has never been anything like our poor people as far as comfort, passive entertainment and lack of any sort of sustained physical effort. Our poor are the most likely to be obese, our rich are the most likely to be fit and thin. Hard to imagine any of the civil unrest of the past ever even occurring if they would have had our present social conditions.
Freegards
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