Never Mistake Political Malevolence for Incompetence

Politicians aren’t stupid; they’re evil

It’s never wise to start a sentence with “I love my wife, but…” but here we go:

I love my wife, but I strongly dislike her view of humanity. She wrongly assumes everyone is a sweet, wonderful, generous, guileless person like herself, and therefore, gives everyone the benefit of the doubt at all times.

This trait is wonderful on a personal level — it allows her to be gracious and patient and long-suffering with even the most neurotic of humanfolk, which inevitably wins her deep friendships with the healthier ones; but she also extends this naivety to politicians. (Honestly, I worry that someday she’ll voluntarily march herself to the gas chambers and apologize for not getting there quickly enough.)

Everyday citizens have the same problem as my wife.

They’re hard-working contributors who create real value for others and assume that everyone is generally “good” — whatever that means in a world where everyone defines good for themselves.

Politicians aren’t like normal people. Politicos are averse to real work and material contribution. They exist to serve themselves. Only bona fide sociopaths turn spotlights on themselves and seek power over others.

There are no incompetent politicians.

In 2023, it takes a huge amount of devious conniving to get oneself (s)elected by the corporatist Republican and/or corporatist Democrat parties. First, you have to raise millions of dollars from private interests — fringe minority groups that demand their values be thrust on the masses. Then you have to market (aka lie) to everyone in your riding, hiding your true self from people who would otherwise hate you, and embellish yourself before those who might give you their vote. Once (s)elected, you become a full-time compromiser, fielding the “requests” (demands) of “lobbyists” (bribery experts.)

Only sheeple still think politicians are incompetent.

They aren’t.

They’re malevolent.

Let’s look at two examples that are playing out in real-time right now:

The Con-engineered food crisis

The United Kingdom, as we’ve discussed before, is a den of corporatism hell-bent on thrusting Britons back into the horrific serfdom from whence they came.

The current Prime Minister — the third unelected Con PM in five years — is a bright little spark named Rishi Sunak.

At present, he is toying with the idea of introducing USSR-style price caps on food in grocery stores.

People on social media are calling him dumb, stupid, and incompetent.

But Rishi Sunak is absolutely none of those things:

• As a visible minority, he managed to make Head Boy at Winchester College, one of the oldest and hoityest of the elite prep schools.
• He graduated with a first-class degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University.
• He was a Fulbright Scholar and got his MBA from Stanford.
• He worked at Goldman Sachs and other elite investment banks before starting his own firm, becoming a Member of Parliament, and rising to Chancellor of the Exchequer, the fancy British title for Finance Minister.
• Also: He managed to get himself (s)elected by the UK Conservatives, a despotic political party packed with charlatans, thieves, aristocrats, pedophiles, and land-lorders.

In other words, Rishi Sunak is the king of the Cons.

He is wickedly intelligent, and anyone who says otherwise is simply lying to themselves.

Remember: The PM is a bankster. The PM is a conservative economist, and you can’t spell conservative or economist without CON.

PM Sunak knows full well what happens when governments introduce price caps on food: Food prices stabilize… for a while… until grocery stores and food producers either decrease production or go out of business because they can’t afford to take a loss on every jar or tin they sell.

So why is he “stupidly” talking about capping the price of groceries?

Because he wants to keep the housing and stock bubble alive as long as possible.

His sponsors — banksters, hedge fund managers, and the rich — want him to keep the price of assets up. But the poor British masses, millions of whom don’t own any assets and would absolutely vote him out of office, need prices to come down.

The right thing to do to get inflation down? Tax billionaires and trillion-dollar monopolies and parasite investors and use the money to build more commons assets.

The easy way to temporarily appease the masses? Cap grocery store prices so people think Rishi is on their side, then as soon as he’s actually elected, he can let prices soar again.

Rather than capping banker bonuses or taxing Shell’s windfall profits, he’s going to decimate small farmers, food producers, and shopkeepers to keep the asset pyramid scheme afloat.

This isn’t incompetence — it’s malevolence.

The Dem-engineered inflation crisis

As we’ve previously discussed, rising prices have one (1) single sole source: sellers raising prices, triggered by a flood of money-printing by the private-bank-owned Federal Reserve.

After pumping more than sixteen trillion new dollars into the American economy in the past three years without using it to create $16T in new assets, the USA is now awash in depreciating cash.

The best move would be to tax it back from those who snatched the lion’s share of it — billionaires — and destroy the cash.

But instead, Biden’s corporatist puppeteers passed a $750 billion spending package with the vile name of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

Now, obviously, on the surface, this seems incompetent. You’re going to get inflation under control by spending more money? Even six-year-olds know that’s not how mathematical reality works.

Is Joe as “dumb” as Rishi?

Not at all:

• Biden earned a double major degree from the University of Delaware
• He then got a law degree from Syracuse.
• He worked as a lawyer and public defender.
• He got himself (s)elected as a Senator at age 29, making him one of the youngest in history.
• During six terms in the Senate, he shaped the nation’s foreign policy and domestic judiciary.
• He got himself (s)elected to serve two terms as Vice President.
• He got himself (s)elected to serve as POTUS.

And look, Joe’s folks know full well that their “fully-costed” $750,000,000,000 spend to “bring down inflation” will never actually be paid for by taxing the rich. Both Biden and his people aren’t dumb.

They know the truth: You can’t print $16 trillion, give it to your bankster buddies, watch them bid up house prices and stock prices, and then kinda-sorta-maybe tax back 4.6% of the print-job and expect it to magically wipe out 100% of the price inflation that is battering Americans to economic dust.

So what is this bill, in actual fact?

It’s the least the corporatist Dems could possibly do to ensure they get re-(s)elected. Because what does the bill actually do? It throws some microscopic bones to their voting base while allowing their rich corporate donors to get even richer:

• It gives the IRS some money to go after “tax dodgers.” AKA, small business owners. It puts a tiny tax on corporations and the rich, which of course, they will easily find a way to dodge. Elon Musk and Warren Buffett will continue to hoard billions like Smaug, while actual working contributors will get crushed with paperwork. [UPDATE: Corporatists are now trying to slash the IRS budget by 25%.)
• It gives a tiny handout to Medicare without taking any meaningful steps toward universal coverage.
• It allocates money to clean energy, AKA, hundreds of billions in free handouts to the greenwashiest of their corporate sponsors.

This isn’t incompetence — it’s malevolence.

In conclusion

Naive people genuinely believe politicians are incompetent. If that was truly the case, then a politician’s (s)election proves they are the smartest person in the stupidest nation to ever exist. If politicians are incompetent, then the 100 million citizens who vote for them need to be institutionalized.

But they aren’t incompetent.

Cicero and the Romans always asked an important question when deciding on which laws to pass:

Qui bono?

Who profits?

When you look at political decisions, don’t be so stupid as to think they are incompetent.

Just follow the money.

When you look at political decisions, don’t be like my wife and assume they have good intentions and your best interests at heart.

They don’t.

Because they don’t work for you. They work for their corporate sponsors. Politicians are mere supplicants, worshippers at the altar of corporate profits. Everything must be sacrificed to the god of Mammon — all public assets, your home, every minute of your working life, and every ounce of your health. All of it must be privatized, monetized, and monopolized. You are not a citizen, you are a subject, a corporate slave who exists to create profits for the richest people in human history.

Politicians are not incompetent. They are malevolent.

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