(Today, 04:01 AM)Ninurta Wrote:(Yesterday, 07:31 AM)ancientlight Wrote: I've been thinking a while now that the political parties (democrats/republicans or left/right) are just political theater. This all just proves it. It's just to keep us , the masses, divided and preoccupied with politics , instead of what the 1% are really up to.
I'd say you're probably right. I've been working on a philosophy of a new way of looking at the "Left-Right" paradigm that accounts for that. I can drop a few hints here.
There isn't really any "Left" or "Right" in the halls of power - only out here amongst us peons on the streets.
Those who actually wield the power and call the shots will never, ever let wither the Right or the Left actually get any power - that would be a threat to the power already vested in the Movers and Shakers.
They do, however, promote vilification of the Right by the Left, and vice-versa. It's a way of keeping us at each other's throats and distracted from those who are really at the top, and what they're up to.
Consider for a moment - and this was pointed out to me by Antifa, of all folks - what is it that every single application of communism and socialism in the real world have ended up as? Authoritarian totalitarianism - the same thing that the Left, as exemplified by Antifa, claims is "Right wing".
How can they be different if they are the same exact thing?
So, if you follow far enough up the chain of command on the Left, you will find... oligarchs. people who give no damns at all for either the right or the left, except for how those terms and people can be useful to the oligarchs.
It's an unfortunate fact that the same thing prevails for the Right as well.
The hell of it is, if you follow both those trails far enough, you end up at the same damned estate. They are both owned and operated by the same damned people, and those people are not going to give up their power to us peons, no matter what our political philosophy is. They don't care about politics. They only care about raw power and control.
They leave the politics to us peons, as owned and directed by them. If one side gets a little too strong, it gets slapped back by the other as the oligarchs increase support to the opposition. When that side gets too powerful, then they swing the pendulum in the other direction for a while. The goal is to prevent either side from getting a toe hold on any real power.
Wash, rinse, repeat. Meanwhile, those at the top are always inventing new and improved ways to extract blood, sweat, tears, and money from us peons to amass to themselves. lately, it's been "carbon credits", "crypto currency", "digital ID", and such like... but what is next, once those have been exhausted? Don't worry - they'll think of something. "Redistribution of wealth" is a real thing, but it never goes in the direction the Left hopes, or the Right fears.
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It`s interesting that in the so called Horseshoe Theory ,in which far right and far left are closer to each other than either is to the political center.
The center has some flexibility, which far right and far left may not have ....