I saw this interesting quote today:
“If you catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants, and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen. However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other. The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. This is exactly what’s happening in society today. Liberal vs. Conservative. Black vs. White. Pro Mask vs. Anti-Mask. Vax vs. Anti-vax. Rich vs. poor. Man vs. woman. Cop vs. citizen. The real question we need to be asking ourselves is who’s shaking the jar… and why?” – Shera Starr
Note: I often use the terms government and state interchangeably.
So who is shaking the jar and why? The answer to the first part of the question is the D.C. swamp creatures and their corporate overlords. The overlords are the oligarchs and corporations that benefit from government largesse such as George Soros, Bill Gates, Boeing, Verizon, Amazon. They fund the deception. The swamp creatures are those that spend their careers in or connected to D.C.: politicians, think tank inhabitants, lobbyists, workers at the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, Energy Department, CDC, NIH, Department of Education, CIA, DEA, I could go on for days. Their careers and 401ks depend on maintaining and better yet extending the largesse.
I cannot overemphasize the role the mainstream media plays in this legerdemain. We see one fake news story after another day after day, month after month, year after year. The media sends out whatever rubbish D.C. feeds them. They are in bed with the swamp creatures. The media whores at CNN parrot the democratic version; the media whores at Fox parrot the republican version. Conflict sells. If it bleeds it leads. Keep the populace entertained and fed(bread and circuses) and they won’t notice. Shaking the jar keeps our attention diverted from what they don’t want us to see.
Why are they shaking the jar? Why do the oligarchs fund the likes of BLM and antifa to sow disharmony and conflict? It’s the old divide and conquer strategy. If we spend our time fighting with each other we won’t notice THEY ARE STEALING US BLIND. They even invented a clever euphemism for the theft to make it seem dignified- taxation. The theft of your wages before you even get paid are called payroll taxes. The theft whenever you buy products essential to live are called sales taxes. The theft of your home even after you have paid off the mortgage is called a property tax. The theft imposed when you open a business is called a business license, when you fish a fishing license, when you hunt a hunting license, when you drive a driver’s license. When you are young and have to pay for the pensions of the old because they were robbed when they were young it’s called the social security tax.
The theft can come in clever forms such as the so-called Federal Reserve System. This system is essentially a government-sanctioned cartel of bankers that creates money that is first handed to its well connected friends. These cronies can use the money before the inflationary effects of the money printing begin. By the time we cattle get any of the money it is worth less than it was when the cronies got it. Another example of the subtle theft can be seen by asking this question: How many bombs has the U.S. military dropped around the world the past ten years? You know the number is really large. How much did those bombs cost? You know the number is really larger. Who made money on the bombs? Not you citizen. Who paid for the bombs? You citizen. The subtle theft here goes from the pockets of us taxpayers to the pockets of the bomb makers. And don’t expect your media faves at Fox News to complain about the warfare state. Fox News likes big government too; they pretend they don’t. It’s all part of the deception.
We are told the taxation theft is not really theft because we agreed to it. I didn’t agree to it, did you? We are told the theft is necessary because it covers services that could not be provided by the private sector such as education and road building. But the literacy rate was high BEFORE public education started to be implemented in the 19th century and the first roads in America were built with private funding. We are told the state must provide the judicial system but we already have a functioning private court system; it is called arbitration. The truth is there is nothing the state provides, including national defense, that could not be provided by the private sector much more efficiently. To see how defense might be provided by the private sector see “Chaos Theory: Two Essays on Market Anarchy” by economist Robert Murphy.
We can begin to stop the theft by first educating ourselves about the true nature of the state. I recommend the short book “Anatomy of the State” by Murray Rothbard or for a longer version read “The State” by sociologist Franz Oppenheimer. You won’t see these texts recommended by your local government monopoly school system. Take the “blue pill” and extricate yourself from the matrix created by the state and its media harlots.