Coexist Part 3 The Exploiters and Influencers
This is part three of the Coexist series. It explores the exploiters and influencers introduced in Part 1. I was fortunate to take the advanced political science course in my undergraduate program. We read The Grand Inquisitor on the Nature of Man, an extract from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. The work made a big impression on me, and I read the full Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot. For this study, The Brothers Karamazov and The Possessed show the institutional aspects and the group aspects of oppression and mind control.
Exploiters is a generic term. They can be individuals, such as George Soros or Al Sharpton, who sat in on cabinet meetings in the Obama administration. They can be groups, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM), politicians, or corporations that seek to manipulate policy. Dole with pineapple in Hawaii is an example.
Politicians and bureaucrats share a common desire: to stay in office and to expand their power base. Depending on their goals, they may be overt exploiters, such as Kamala Harris supporting rioters and starting a bail fund for them, or covert exploiters such bureaucrats and regulatory capture, especially with Big Pharma. Both politicians and bureaucrats violate the trust implicit in their positions when they engage in exploitation and undue influence.
Religious clerics seems strange company in this mix, but religion and power are ancient bedfellows. Clerics have used the power of reward and punishment (operant conditioning). Religion triggered the calamitous Thirty Years’ War and the Pope once ruled a large part of Italy. Cromwell fought the English Civil along religious and parliamentary lines. More recently, the Catholic church in Latin America practiced Liberation Theology and the current pope comes from this milieu. Liberation Theology rests on the foundations of World Systems Theory and Critical Theory, both Marxist doctrines.
| Impact | ||
| Class | Domestic Tranquility | National Security |
| Exploiters | Exploiters seek to disrupt the social and governmental systems to achieve their objectives. The selectively and gently influence the evolving groups to support their agenda. They aggressively target the “Me Too” groups to manipulate them to think they are furthering their own objectives when they are really working on the exploiter’s deeper purpose. All political and governmental functions are at risk. They act as puppet masters, staying behind the scenes and being relatively anonymous. They want to control the sources of power in government and society. Their efforts make elections more about the control of the office than the person elected. | |
| Politicians | President Johnson is reported to say, “I’ll Have Those N*****s Voting Democratic for 200 Years”. The Great Society set the black community back and set the stage for domestic instability. Subsequent politicians have followed this lead. Municipal and state politicians have enacted defund the police initiatives and set up sanctuary cities. Federal politicians have opened the border to just about anyone with seemingly little or no screening. | Sojourners reports on 3 politicians that are engaged in anti-war activities. One can make a case that Vietnam fell in 1975 because politicians cut off funding and aid to South Vietnam. The “squad” and others engaged in activities that disrupted activities in Afghanistan, and arguably, the route from Afghanistan was based on political activities. |
| Bureaucrats | Bureaucratic involvement is readily apparent in education, with schools pushing 1619, BLM, and transgender issues. The teachers’ unions are also involved in these activities. Crime is rampant in cities and police forces are down in strength and some attorney generals refuse to prosecute crimes. | DoD civilians are recognized bureaucrats. But I think that is extended to the military as well. DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity) programs are having a negative impact on readiness and may well be behind the recruiting problems in the military. This may be especially true for white males, whose enlistment rates are way down. |
| Religious Clerics | Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are two examples of clerics involved in domestic issues. Black churches and evangelical churches are on opposites of many domestic issues and can use the pulpit as a forum to energize their members. | Clerics were particularly active in anti-war activities during Vietnam. They do not seem to be active in anti-war activities since then. |
We hear a lot about the weaponisation of the Department of Justice and the IRS and other government agencies from the conservative press. They make it sound like it is something new. But it is not. If you asked a Black in the 1950s or 1960s, I suspect they would tell you these agencies were weaponized against them. The only difference is the target.
We can also add judicial activism with some judges that think the Constitution is antiquated and should be ignored. In some ways, it seems as if the judiciary is now a quasi-legislative branch. Circuit courts eviscerate executive actions and laws and politicians work hard to get judges from their own parties to further this issue.
We need to reform the bureaucracy and the qualifications of politicians. Now we cannot do anything about basic qualifications without changing constitutions. But we can ensure that politicians are qualified committee chair positions and legislative positions. Perhaps we should consider security checks for elected politicians. I suspect some recent politicians would not pass a security check. As I discussed in Part 2, we also need significant reform in our educational system.
The judiciary also needs to be de-politicized.
Coexist Part 2: Believers
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