I am sad that so many good Patriots are inclined to see a conspiracy under every rock and around every corner. You give our ruling elite way too much credit if you think this way - meaning, to think they are secretly manipulating every aspect of life and history.
They are NOT that smart.
Yes, there is a huge amount of collusion among corrupt and unethical government, media and business leaders in the USA and around the world, but they are NOT smart enough to be one step ahead of every single thing everyone thinks and does.
However, they ARE smart enough to mess with your mind.
They have enough influence on the corporate media to manipulate it like a pro. They even manipulate the right-wing news and social media to play on your disposition to see a conspiracy everywhere by making it look like there really is one. They want you to think they
are smart enough to be involved in everything and one step ahead of you. Their intent is to make good people like you give up on trying to drain the swamp.
That is their game. And they are wildly successful.
Entertaining far-fetched conspiracies misdirects your energy from the real conspiracy. Some people call it the Deep State. I call it a Conspiracy of Idiots.
The Conspiracy of Idiots is professional government types trying to do anything and everything to keep their careers and power intact. They help each other.
When someone's position is in trouble, they help preserve the other's survival with the implicit knowledge that when or if they themselves are ever in danger of losing their job, or held accountable for wrong-doing, that some other bureaucrat, in turn, will have their back.
These lifetime bureaucrats get so well connected after decades of "service" that the back-scratching happens across agencies.
Employees of the NSA, CIA, FBI, IRS, EPA, FDA, CDC, NIH, ATF, DOJ, DOD and a host of other agencies, as well as the media and lobbying industries are all part of the "revolving door" culture. That's where elected officials, bureaucrats, lobbyists and the media all aspire to move around, back and forth in pursuit of higher-paying, more influential jobs.
They are all following the unwritten rule to watch each others backs and keep the honest elected officials, you and I in the dark as much as possible. The members of the RNC/DNC, or in other words, the people behind the Incumbent Party, are deeply in on this game.
That's not so much a conspiracy as it's human nature - the instinct for self-preservation and greed.
That's why our country's founders tried to put checks and balances in place to avoid this. However, after 200 plus years, career politicians and bureaucrats have beaten down those checks and balances and now use them to their own advantage. They do NOT care what you think or want. They know they can get re-elected and get their appointments reconfirmed without your vote.
Here is an example of the Conspiracy of Idiots in action.
The media gave Donald Trump the most airtime during the 2016 campaign, thinking there was no way he would win. They did it because it was good for ratings and brought in money. They considered him a joke. So, when he did win, they went ballistic out of self-loathing frustration.
They forgot that the candidate who gets the most news coverage will benefit from a 10% boost in votes.
So much for evil geniuses.
Seeing the media melt down at their huge mistake, the Deep State saw an opportunity to remove the Trump thorn in their side by leaking misleading, out of context and outright
fabricated information to the media, knowing these "journalists" will gobble up any and all stories that might remove President Trump and atone for their sin of helping Donald win.
This is an example of the idiots that run our government, media, and corporations. They are barely one step ahead of their own stupidity to ever be a secret cabal of evil geniuses pulling the strings to shape history and daily life.
That gives them WAY too much credit.
If you fall for every conspiracy, you run the risk of not trusting an organization that actually could help drain the swamp. Organizations like your own church, the America First arm of the Republican Party or the Convention of States.
The best example of this is QAnon.
It became obvious to me early on that QAnon must be a Deep State troll - probably run by the NSA, CIA and/or FBI. Their goal was to make the most active group of God-loving, USA-loving, Constitution-loving people withdraw from action and do nothing.
QAnon followers and bots spewed the terms #TrustThePlan and #StayTheCourse by giving promises that something big would drop in the next week or so that would solve all the problems with the corrupt politicians, fake impeachment, phony pandemic, shut downs, stolen election, etc.
All it took was for the shoe NOT to drop during their promised time frame two, maybe three, times for me to realize that QAnon was full of shit.
The biggest threat to the elites in power is the Conservative movement. You, I and the rest of the silent majority. So they spend lots of time trying to neutralize that threat.
They constantly point out that the biggest threat to America is a "right wing conspiracy" and they do it with a straight face while America burns from left-wing anarchists. Why? Because they know they can end the left-wing anarchy any time they want to. But if the silent majority got off their asses and got involved in a meaningful way, they would have no chance in hell of surviving. So they smear the Right and any classic liberal who questions the status quo with accusations of racism and hate.
The Conspiracy of Idiots uses subtle extortion and the threat of "exposure" to keep the elected officials in line. The honest elected officials are heavily manipulated. Republicans have so little support in the media that even a threat of exposure, no matter how unfounded or out of context the accusation would be, will make them put their tails between their legs and obey the whispering Deep State bogeyman.
However, Donald Trump was mostly immune to their games. Their threats didn't work on him. Some conspiracy buffs think President Trump was their puppet, but that is not true. He was the first person in Washington that refused to be manipulated and that is why they wanted him out so desperately. This is another example of how falling for a non-existent conspiracy could make you withdraw support from something can effect meaningful change. Believing Trump was part of the "big conspiracy" is just plain paranoid.
The Illuminati BaloneyI grew up with a father who fully believed in the centuries-long conspiracy of the Illuminati. But when I came to the age of critical thinking, I realized it was nonsense.
And for one very simple reason.
No one would ever be interested in a secret society that had a plan of global domination that would take centuries to fulfill. People are too self-centered for that. If they can't benefit during their lifetime, they would have no part of it.
Now, Satan did whisper in the ears of people in power down through the ages and it now looks like there was a conspiracy the whole time. That's because his aim IS world domination and world misery. He'll do everything he can to achieve that. But he has been thwarted in his scheme by good men doing good things just as often as he has succeeded in influencing bad men to do bad things.
God will win in the end. But the end is NOT near so don't sit on your arse and wait for the end to come. Your death is more likely to happen during your lifetime than you are to see the Second Coming of Christ. Use your time wisely!
Some people think that 9/11 was planned and executed by the Deep State. Again, they are not smart enough to pull off a false flag event that huge and get away with it.
They ARE smart enough, however, to not let a good crisis go to waste. They used their positions to campaign the American people and our Representatives to hand more power and control to them in the name of safety. Hence the Patriot Act.
Some people think that the government knew exactly when and where Pearl Harbor was going to happen and did nothing to stop it. If you believe that, you need to read some history books. American intelligence didn't crack Japanese codes until January of 1942.
The other sources of intelligence during the fall of 1941 hinted to the Japanese Imperial Navy being in and around Japan, ramping up for a possible attack on US or British interests somewhere in the western Pacific (Guam, Philippines, Borneo or Malaysia). Of course, a large part of that belief came from deliberate Japanese disinformation to hide their true aims.
American leadership was more concerned about sabotage from Japanese covert ops at Pearl Harbor than a military strike. That's why so many warplanes where neatly lined up far away from the base's fences, making them easy targets for the attacking Japanese air force.
I think I began my life of optimism after learning about Julian Simon around the early 1990s. We were starting a mail order business so I read his book, How to Start and Operate a Mail Order Business. It turned out that this book was a one-off for him. He was an economist and most of his books where about the historically optimistic side of economics. He used his years of data research to try and plead with the people to not listen to the doomsayers because the Ultimate Resource as he put it was human ingenuity. Which historically ALWAYS solved man's problems and made things better for EVERYONE.
