..”if we all had enough time, information and mental acuity to form an understanding of what’s going on in our world, things would get mighty guillotiney real quick..”
by Caitlin Johnstone on Nov 13, 2025 via thefreeonline at wp.me/pIJl9-HFX
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
Which sounds more likely: (A) that things are bad because the population keeps organically voting for policies which just so happen to hurt ordinary people while benefitting the rich and powerful, or (B) that things are bad because the rich and powerful want things this way?
Does it seem more likely to you that (A) the democratic process consistently leaves people unable to advance basic human interests because the population always organically splits itself into an exact 50–50 deadlock that leaves everyone unable to get anything done long term, and that this deadlock always just so happens to land on a status quo that serves the interests of the rich and powerful, or (B) that the rich and the powerful artificially created this status quo via manipulation?
You don’t need to know anything at all about politics or parapolitics to see that (B) is the most likely explanation for why things keep getting worse for everyone besides the rich and powerful.
Your own basic reasoning and understanding of human behavior will tell you that there’s no way democracy is working as advertised if things keep getting worse and worse for ordinary voters while billionaires and empire managers keep getting everything they want.
Things are shitty because we are ruled by people who want things to be shitty. Once you awaken to this undeniable reality, you will inevitably find yourself growing more and more radicalized.
Our rulers want nonstop war and genocide. Our rulers want obscene levels of inequality.
Our rulers want the public to be poor and struggling. Our rulers want people to be getting dumber, sicker, and more miserable. Our rulers want the unrestricted industry that’s killing earth’s biosphere. Our rulers want us to have vapid, unedifying mainstream culture. This dystopia looks more or less exactly how they want it to look.
Our rulers want war, militarism and genocide to be the norm because military force is one of the critical ways by which they dominate the planet, control resources and trade routes, and prevent foreign states from trying different systems and establishing a different world order. Waging and preparing to wage war has the added bonus of also being extremely profitable.
see also: Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) paycheck
The plutocrats want inequality to continue because it’s what allows them to live as modern-day monarchs.
Continue reading “Things Are Shitty Because We Are Ruled By People Who Want Things To Be Shitty”
The Free 
