Beware the Judas Goat

This is an excerpt from Life in Eddie's Shadow, one of the latest releases by PP Press

the purpose of elections isn't just counting
for a long time distrust has been mounting
if you don't make people feel
that the results are fair & real
the pot will begin to bubble
and you're surely headed for trouble

the ties that bind
i'm afraid you'll find
are often quite weak
we've really not had a long streak
less than three centuries seen
as countries go we're basically a tween

it's not guaranteed to last
and oh how close we came in the past
but at the end of the day
i can confidently say
most of us want much of the same
despite giving it a different name

stability, security, liberty, freedom, these are but some
if only the elite did not keep us all dumb
as well as docile & frightened
clearly fearing the day enough become enlightened
down would come the castles in the cloud
an action for which our people could be proud

for now they keep building, brick by brick
their pace is increasing, we must act quick
they're collecting data at an alarming rate
often under the guise of stopping hate
the day is coming when the cage will slam shut
though let me assure you there is a "but"

it need not happen this way
you still have a say
if may not look like you do
but they haven't yet automated all of you
you make the world keep spinning
without your support they ain't winning

so begin to reach out
form new communities, make sure they're stout
even a team of two will do
you watch out for me and i'll watch out for you
become critical cogs in a machine that's massive
make sure this one's not designed to keep you passive

we've fallen for that before, we can't again
another opportunity comes up who knows when
the drums of emancipation are beating
but their song is sure to be fleeting
you've got to seize the moment by the throat
just beware the Judas goat

"Let’s assume for a minute, that the vaccination campaign is led by people who genuinely want to end the current crisis and restore the country to “normal”. Let’s also assume, that they believe that mass vaccination is the best way to achieve that objective by preventing the spread of the virus and, thus, reducing the death toll. Is that sufficient justification for silencing vaccine critics and conducting a nation-wide brainwashing operation aimed at controlling public opinion?

No, it’s not. People need to hear both sides of the story, in fact, that’s the only way they can make an informed decision about how they wish to proceed. The media has no right to commandeer the airwaves and control whatever people hear and see. And they have no right to deliberately exclude the medical professionals and other experts whose views conflict with the official narrative. The only way that people can offer their informed consent for vaccination, is if they’re able to weigh the risks and benefits for themselves. But that’s only possible if they have access to many diverse sources of information which, at present, they don’t. Increasingly, the only message that most people hear is the one that is provided by the government in collaboration with industry honchos and other elites. Traditionally, this type of state media is called “propaganda” which is a term that certainly applies here.

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...the people that are managing this campaign don’t want anything that veers from the “official narrative”. They don’t want people thinking for themselves, they don’t want people searching alternate websites that challenge the new prevailing doctrine on vaccines, they don’t want people who read the details about the trials or the medical journals or the research papers. They don’t want you to question their motives, or weigh the risks and benefits of getting vaccinated. They don’t want you to notice that their vaccine never completed long-term trials or met the normal standards for product safety. They don’t want you to consider the fact that mRNA is a relatively new technology with a checkered past that includes some very disturbing animal trials in which all the animals died. They don’t want you to think about any of this. They want you to shut up, stand in line, turn off your brain, and roll up your sleeve. And, anyone who disagrees with that sentiment, is being censored.

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And why have behavioral psychologists been employed by the government to promote the vaccination campaign? Why have they concocted a strategy designed “to change people’s beliefs and feelings about vaccination” to inform “people about the prosocial benefits of vaccination”, and to “intervene on behavior directly”, which means that you’re given an appointment, and told that you will be getting your vaccination at the end of the session.” Psychologists call this a “presumptive recommendation” which effectively eliminates the element of personal choice by creating a scenario in which getting vaccinated is a fait accompli. How is this not coercion?

It is coercion, subconscious coercion. The doctor is strong-arming the patient into getting vaccinated by making it look like its standard procedure. That puts pressure on the patient to follow the path of least resistance, which is compliance. It’s a clever tactic, but it is also transparently manipulative.

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Is it really ethical for the APA to be involved in a mass vaccination campaign? Is this the role an organization like this should play in a democratic society? Should the APA use its unique understanding of human behavior to persuade people on behalf of the government and big pharma? And, more importantly, if behavioral psychologists helped to shape the government’s strategy on mass vaccination, then in what other policies were they involved? Were these the “professionals” who conjured up the pandemic restrictions? Were the masks, the social distancing and the lockdowns all promoted by “experts” as a way to undermine normal human relations and inflict the maximum psychological pain on the American people? Was the intention to create a weak and submissive population that would willingly accept the dismantling of democratic institutions, the dramatic restructuring of the economy, and the imposition of a new political order?”" [Source]

To me it's been fascinating to watch how the Chinese government has increasingly turned their people into consumers resembling citizens in the West. It's not quite the same as getting into a time machine and going back to watch Bernays begin his manipulations but it certainly rhymes. And as pointed out previously, it is often far easier to see the problems of our own cultures when they are exhibited by one seemingly more alien.

In the cases of both China & Covid, it is interesting to ponder a possible intersection of the two with our own cultures in the West. Were our own techniques of control & manipulation used against us to seed the fear, uncertainty, and doubt which allowed the power grab to take place in early 2020?

"At the turn of 2020, the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China rapidly took its place atop the global information stage, and it wasn’t because people suddenly became interested in respiratory diseases. Supercharging this process was the breathtaking, horrifying photos and videos coming out of Wuhan. What we were seeing through the lens of social media appeared to be an Ebola-like plague, something so horrifying that it seemed to belong in a Hollywood script. Ultra viral videos and photos often showed citizens in business attire, out and about, seemingly going about their day, when suddenly, they were captured on film dropping like flies. It was “like Walking Dead” in the way that the virus supposedly struck its victims, suddenly and without remorse.

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If you break down the tactics of the COVID-19 disinformation operation, it’s easy to fill in the gaps and show how this style applies to the CCP’s COVID-19 operation.

1) The “cracks” in our society and politics are plentiful, and the West continues to abandon independent thought for total obedience to a corrupt ruling class.

2) The “Big Lie” is the idea that COVID-19 is a very lethal threat and that there must be dramatic measures, in the form of societal self-destruction that is initiated to “stop the spread.” The data in well over 100 countries proves otherwise.

3) The Big Lie is easier to pull off if it involves a kernel of truth. This was a critical component of the operation. Here, the kernel of truth is the virus itself, which causes a respiratory disease similar to seasonal Flu that results in an estimated 0.1 to 0.15% death rate.

4) China is concealing their hand by continuing to deceive the world about the origins of the virus, and more importantly, the origins of their deliberate propaganda campaign that resulted in global panic. Sadly, there have been zero government inquiries into what exactly happened in Wuhan.

5) There are countless useful idiots in this story, namely, almost every single Western government head of state, in addition to a class of pseudoscientists known as “public health experts,” who have leveraged this era to accumulate fame, fortune, and power. These useful idiots deployed China’s narratives for a variety of reasons, none of which were supported by any real scientific justification.

6) Given that the West has largely bought into Corona Mania, China does not even need to deny everything about their role in promulgating the insanity. China is surely entertained by the wild goose chases from afar in attempts to find a patient zero at some laboratories in Wuhan, but that’s more of a distraction than anything else. It’s vitally important that Western governments dedicate resources to investigating the origins of the disinformation operation. It is infinitely more important than finding a patient zero.

7) The long game is already playing out. China has emerged economically unscathed by Corona Mania, while the West is entirely depleted due to lockdowns and other self destructive measures. China has been open and thriving, without much of a vaccine rollout whatsoever, for more than a year, while the West is still inundated in lockdown madness. In the end, China launched WWIII in the form of the coronavirus, and won the war without firing a single shot.

COVID-19 should be understood not as a disease, but as nothing more than a Chinese disinformation operation that was presented in the form of a virus." [Source]

The continued economic rise of China, combined with it's authoritarian ruling structures & information restrictions, poses a grave threat to the average peoples of the world as well as the vast majority of the Chinese people. The Chinese ruling elite have no qualms about deploying the latest in high tech surveillance and social control tools. They are not hesitant about rushing headlong into a Brave New World-style future.

"Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."

--George Orwell

Many of you as children will have experienced the brief feeling of fear which rises up when you find your fingers quite stuck in a cheap Chinese finger trap, perhaps purchased with tickets won from an arcade game with a "Made in China" stamp somewhere. But the Made in China traps of the future are far more sinister and Mom isn't going to be able to wiggle you out of this one. We've already got some cases where you probably REALLY don't want her to even make an attempt:

"In October of last year, security researchers found that the manufacturer of an Internet of Things chastity cage—a sex toy that users put around their penis to prevent erections that is used in the BDSM community and can be unlocked remotely—had left an API exposed, giving malicious hackers a chance to take control of the devices. That's exactly what happened, according to a security researcher who obtained screenshots of conversations between the hacker and several victims, and according to victims interviewed by Motherboard.  

A victim who asked to be identified only as Robert said that he received a message from a hacker demanding a payment of 0.02 Bitcoin (around $750 today) to unlock the device. He realized his cage was definitely "locked," and he "could not gain access to it."

"Fortunately I didn’t have this locked on myself while this happened," Robert said in an online chat.

"I wasn’t the owner of the cage anymore so I didn’t have full control over the cage at any given moment," another victim who goes by the name RJ told Motherboard in an online chat. RJ said he got a message from the hacker, who said they had control of the cage and wanted a payment to unlock it." [Source]

Now I'm probably showing my ignorance here but does that final paragraph seem to imply there's a second-hand market for these things? I'm all for second-hand stuff but that seems a bit over the top. More seriously, such stories do help make clear the depths of infancy & trust we are up against.

"Understanding why so many highly-educated Americans are incapable of responding to the current crisis, and endorse a vaccine regime that they do not believe in, requires us to look at the larger strategy for manipulating choices offered to establishment intellectuals. In part, it is a matter of lag time. Intellectuals are shocked by the rapid shifts in geopolitics. They find it easier to wallow in self-pity, or to bury their heads in denial. The period of time required for a new generation of committed intellectuals to emerge is not fast enough to keep up with the rate of change—and thus have failed to organize anti-fascist movements like those of the 1930s that formed the kernel of true resistance to totalitarianism.

It is helpful to focus on a few of the false choices, the baited gambits, that have been skillfully set up by the advisors to the super-rich so as to create fissures in American society that fragment the establishment, and create internal conflicts in a predetermined manner, so that no broad consensus is reached and citizens unknowingly do the dirty work for the super-rich.

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It would not take more than a few minutes of comparison between the tricks used by global finance leaders in London, Paris and Berlin in 1914, and the similar tricks being employed by US and Chinese financial interests today, for citizens to get the idea.

In place of analysis, we are force-fed the tired and trite tale of the “Thucydides trap” endlessly promoted by the highest-paid minion of the investment bankers, the made-to-order prophet lauded and feted by CEOs in New York and Shanghai, Harvard’s own éminence grise Graham Ellison.

If we want to understand what is taking place in the unhealthy “Frankenstein Alliance,” in the pact signed between elites in Washington and Beijing, we must first break out of this foolish “nation state” schemata peddled to intellectuals by global bankers and look directly at the massive collaboration between the super-rich globally for the purpose of destroying the lives of workers, and unfold and unravel their schemes to play American workers against Chinese workers so as to stop any unity of purpose on the part of citizens.

Graham Ellison and his Harvard friends are never going to talk about how Harvard’s de facto majority shareholder Goldman Sachs plans to use economic conflict between the United States and China as a means to push through the complete automation of factories and the massive implementation of AI in both countries in the name of “competition.”

The battle is not so much between Beijing and Washington, although that battle is also plenty real, but more about the drive of global finance to control the assets, the money, the activities, the identity, and the bodies of every single worker in both countries. What cannot be forced through in China, will be forced through in the United States first, or vise versa—or in another country first.

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That process, even though it can be documented without too much effort using open-source materials, must be dismissed as a conspiracy theory beyond the pale. The only accurate means to understand the conflicts between China and the United States today, we are told by the authorities, is through an analogy to a war between Sparta and Athens in the fifth century B.C.

The possibility that neither China nor America exist today as political units in light of the radical concentration of wealth is the most likely explanation for what we witness today....

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What no one is going to tell citizens, or even personnel with top secret/SCI clearance, is that the AI being developed is meant to be a weapon to degrade the ability of citizens to think (starting with military personnel) through destructive stimulation of the brain using commercial media, and to divide and confuse the populations of both nations, using different time frames and agendas, so as to soften up the citizens of the Earth for the absolute rule of the super-rich.

Will the next generation micro drones and robots, energy weapons on low-orbit satellites, be used in some glorious Normandy Landing, or Athens-Sparta conflict between civilizations and nation states? Or might the final intention be to employ these weapons so as to attack the citizens of China and of the United States, if they try to resist this global power grab?

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Multinational investment banks, corporations, and the super-rich that control them, have paid their operators to set up a “false choices” for citizens that are meant to divide us and to discourage organized resistance. Prefabricated liberal-conservative conflicts are core to this effort. Although this effort has gone on for decades, the classified programs to engineer conflicts based on ethnicity, culture or gender, has gone into warp drive as the blatant power grab of the elite becomes increasingly obvious. [Source]

Far too many have bought into the narrative of a land of automated plenty, where robot Mommies & Daddies do all the work and take care of us vulnerable children:

"According to Grimes, “correctly” implementing AI into all aspects of life would be the “fastest path to communism”, creating “abundance” for all.

“Like, we could totally get to a situation where nobody has to work, everybody is provided for with a comparable state of being, comfortable living,” she argued.

Artificial intelligence could automate work such as farming and eliminate corruption, “thereby bringing us as close as possible to genuine equality,” Grimes theorized. "So basically, everything everybody loves about communism but without the collective farm. Because, let’s be real, enforced farming is really not a vibe.”" [Source]

I mean maybe the most fascinating aspect of this is the way we've managed to turn the production of food, a key survival activity, into this unappealing endeavor that obviously should be handed off to autonomous machines.

I suspect what has made modern farming most unappealing is the increasing powerlessness of the small farmer in relation to Big Ag. Any gardener can attest that there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating what you helped usher into being. But I imagine an endless push for evermore efficient operations and narrow profit margins, on top of the usual farming problems of pests, weather, etc, make it a stress-filled affair to attempt at larger scales. This same pattern can be seen in other necessary endeavors as well such as caregiving and teaching.

But this embrace of the "helping hand" of AI and automation will facilitate the push to the Final Cage:

"In April [2021], the Indian government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft, allowing its local partner CropData to leverage a master database of farmers. The MoU seems to be part of the AgriStack policy initiative, which involves the roll out of ‘disruptive’ technologies and digital databases in the agricultural sector.

Based on press reports and government statements, Microsoft would help farmers with post- harvest management solutions by building a collaborative platform and capturing agriculture datasets such as crop yields, weather data, market demand and prices. In turn, this would create a farmer interface for ‘smart’ agriculture, including post-harvest management and distribution.

CropData will be granted access to a government database of 50 million farmers and their land records. As the database is developed, it will include farmers’ personal details, profile of land held (cadastral maps, farm size, land titles, local climatic and geographical conditions), production details (crops grown, production history, input history, quality of output, machinery in possession) and financial details (input costs, average return, credit history).

The stated aim is to use digital technology to improve financing, inputs, cultivation and supply and distribution.

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Such ‘data-driven agriculture’ is integral to the recent farm legislation which includes a proposal to create a digital profile of cultivators, their farm holdings, climatic conditions in an area, what is grown and average output.

Of course, many concerns have been raised about this, ranging from farmer displacement, the further exploitation of farmers through microfinance and the misuse of farmer’s data and increased algorithmic decision-making without accountability.

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The plan is that, as farmers lose access to land or can be identified as legal owners, predatory institutional investors and large agribusinesses will buy up and amalgamate holdings, facilitating the further roll out of high-input, corporate-dependent industrial agriculture – which has already helped fuel wide-scale financial distress among farmers and a deep-rooted agrarian and environmental crisis.

By harvesting (pirating) information – under the benign-sounding policy of data-driven agriculture – private corporations will be better placed to exploit farmers’ situations for their own ends: they will know more about their incomes and businesses than individual farmers themselves.

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There is the strong possibility that monopolistic corporate owned e-commerce ‘platforms’ will eventually control much of India’s economy given the current policy trajectory. From retail and logistics to cultivation, data certainly will be the ‘new oil’, giving power to platforms to dictate what needs to be manufactured and in what quantities.

Those farmers who remain in the system will be tied to contracts and told how much production is expected, how much rain is anticipated, what type of soil quality there is, what type of inputs are required and when the produce needs to be ready – and how much money they will receive.

Handing over all information about the sector to Microsoft and others places power in their hands – the power to shape the sector in their own image.

The data giants and e-commerce companies will not only control data about consumption but also hold data on production, logistics, who needs what, when they need it, who should produce it, who should move it and when it should be moved.

Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta and traditional agribusiness will work with Microsoft, Google and the big-tech giants to facilitate AI-driven farmerless farms and e-commerce retail dominated by the likes of Amazon and Walmart. A cartel of data owners, proprietary input suppliers and retail concerns at the commanding heights of the economy, peddling toxic industrial food and the devastating health impacts associated with it.

And elected representatives? Their role will be highly limited to technocratic overseers of these platforms and the artificial intelligence tools that plan and determine all of the above.

As for farmers, many if not most will be forced to leave the sector. Tens of millions unemployed and underemployed ‘collateral damage’ stripped of their means of production.

Centuries’ old knowledge of cultivation and cultural practices passed on down the generations – gone. The links between humans and the land reduced to an AI-driven technocratic dystopia in compliance with the tenets of neoliberal capitalism.

As it currently stands, AgriStack will help facilitate this end game." [Source]

Thankfully we do see some still resisting these impulses to default to their infant states. While the night may currently be dark & dreary the light of dawn may be glimpsed on the horizon:

"In light of the collapse of all branches of the Federal government, and the slip of civil society into the dark abyss of decadence and narcissism, we citizens declare that an Acting Government of the United States of America is established hereby that will serve as a midwife in the painful, but promising, rebirth of this nation.

The words of this declaration will limn the direction forward for our nation and suggest the contours of our future.

The acting government of the United States will distinguish itself from the wreckage now occupied by jackals and hyenas, by its strict adherence to our sacred Constitution and to the spirit of the law.

The acting government will administer as much of the United States as it can, granted the tremendous challenges that we face.

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The United States has a noble tradition of democratic governance. The inspiration for our nation, however, must be traced back to the American Revolution of 1776, and to the revolution against slavery of 1860. Our political philosophy is revolutionary, and this is a moment when that tradition must be revived.

The Declaration of Independence was the first step, a break with the British Empire. This declaration of independence is a break with the insidious empire of finance and speculation run by billionaires and their servants.

We hereby declare our independence from that empire of corruption and pillage, that empire of foreign wars and manipulative media, that empire of processed foods and needless medications forced on us for profit.

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Before we recognize anyone as president, we must first take these six actions:

1) We will list the billionaires, investment banks, private equity funds and the other parasitic financial institutions that have taken control of our nation’s government and detail how they govern us illegally.

We will make all information public regarding their criminal takeover, and their criminal administration, of our country. We will bring criminal charges against the leaders, and seize their assets, regardless of how many politicians they own, or how many billions of dollars they claim to possess.

2) We will take control of the economy, starting with money and finance (especially the Federal Reserve), and create an economy of the people, by the people and for the people.

The speculative economy will end and all fiscal policy will be drafted in close coordination with citizens using scientific data concerning the true short-term and long-term challenges facing our nation. For-profit organizations will play no role in the formulation of economic policy, nor will foreign economic concerns. Corporations whose stock is owned by foreign interests, that have their headquarters outside of the United States, will not be considered American.

3) We will establish true journalism, starting with journalism produced by networks of patriotic citizens, that is dedicated to the pursuit of truth, and does not shy away from taboo subjects. This journalism will have no corporate sponsors and will be accompanied by social media networks and search engines that are run as regional and national cooperatives responsible to the people, that have pursuit of truth, not profit, as their paramount goal.

4) We will establish an international committee of ethical citizens to oversee an investigation of the criminal actions by those pretending to be the United States government for the last twenty years. Base on the findings of those public investigations, we will make proposals for a revolutionary restructuring of the government so as to make the citizen again sovereign.

Only then will we be able to hold transparent and accountable elections for the President and the Congress that allow the citizens to vote on the basis of accurate information, elections from which corporate money and private wealth will be banned.

Criminal syndicates like the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, not described in the Constitution, will play no role in these open and fair elections.

5) We will set down national security priorities related to the threats facing our citizens. The process of assessing those security concerns will be immune from the lobbying of weapons manufactures and investment banks. We will consider crucial issues such as the collapse of biodiversity, the destruction of our climate, the concentration of wealth and the misuse of technology to destroy the minds of our citizens. We will also stop the use of automation and communications technology by corporations to destroy our livelihoods. We see the war of the rich against the citizens of the Earth as the primary security threat of our age.

6) We will reform the United Nations so that it will become a space for true “Earth” governance that takes an internationalist perspective, and is not a tool for globalism. We will banish from the United Nations the money chargers and the plutocracy who have shredded the United Nations Charter and made its employees into their lapdogs.

The demands are simple, but achieving them will require vision, inspiration, tenacity and sacrifice. The rebuilding of the United States, in accord with its sacred Constitution, will be both a national and an international project.

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This is the moment when you must choose to stand with the downtrodden, choose to help citizens, who have not been so fortunate as you have, to distinguish truth from falsehood.

Those who possess extreme riches are not your friends. They care no more for you than they do for the homeless.

We declare today that in our streets, in our neighborhoods, in our states and in our nation, the United States of America, the super-rich and their minions shall have no dominion. The government titles or institutional trappings that they have stolen, or bought, grant them no authority over us.

If truth slips from our grasp, the powerful can easily twist our sentiments. The evil that they stir up shifts patterns, so as to blend into any scene, like a moth, like a chameleon.

Our acting government will adhere to the constitution, to the sacred truth and to our moral indignation. We know no other masters." [Source]

Attempts like these to create a society of mature adults capable of leading themselves are the only path forward. We must not be afraid to step out of our comfort zones and be wrong. We must also not be afraid to admit when we were wrong and to acknowledge our shortcomings & limitations. The way I see it, if #WeThePeople do not wage a multi-front war against the elite we will be outflanked and ushered into the Final Cage.

Many people these days are seeking a unity that I would label "useless unity". Attempting to corral people into one anti-elite group ends up pitting #WeThePeople not only against elite forces but against competing anti-elites vying for the spot as the one true revolutionaries. Remember that problems unite, solutions divide.

Should We the People attempt to seize control of the Republican Party? Yes.

Should We the People attempt to start a nationally-viable third party with broad appeal? Yes.

Should We the People attempt to takeover and broaden the appeal of existing third parties? Yes.

Should We the People attempt to ignore the national electoral landscape entirely and create local grassroots movements to strengthen the resilience of our communities? Yes.

Should We the People attempt to influence societal and global culture by getting involved in the production of entertainment, news, education, etc? Yes.

The elite are incapable of stopping such an onslaught. But they are quite adept at stopping the "unified" approach some, and even Trump, seem to be calling for. We're a diverse country of over 300 million. We have the numbers to do this.

Though we must be cautious. There's an impulse many who want change give in to of destroying the existing unjust system with the naive hope that it will all become "just" once the "baddies" are destroyed. But we know that doesn't work: If people's precarity now encourages them to go along with some awful stuff how exactly would forcing them to make those choices in an even more precarious environment of post-revolutionary America result in better outcomes?

So really it's the most dangerous & consequential game of Chicken ever played. The elite are racing to get us into the Final Cage and we free-thinkers are racing to awake enough and develop actual workable solutions before that cage door slams shut. Taking out any particular elite themselves will not necessarily stop the march to the cage, though it may slow it (or it could accelerate it).

But when faced with injustice that siren song of Rebellion increases its volume. So when her song becomes too much, go take a trip to the main water shutoff valve wherever you live, twist it closed, and then attempt to live normally. Hopefully you'll reach two realizations:

1. The simplest things can become difficult and cumbersome in an actual rebellion.

2. Many people in this country, one of the richest on the planet, have to navigate, for various reasons, their daily lives without clean water flowing out of the tap. This situation is unacceptable and anyone standing in the way of fixing it must be removed.

Once you realize (2) you've now found yourself passionate about an issue that crosses "party lines". Use it to begin forging a broad coalition of #WeThePeople against the ruling elite. Failure is not an option as what they have in store for us will be the end of us.

Let us now end this chapter as we started, this time with a poem inspired by the words of @themorrigan1973:

we don't have children
the stuff we do
food groups, outreach
to parents & the just vulnerable too

knowing we'll never sit
in the shade of the tree we won't see
but those seeds we plant anyway
growing connections between they and we

like roots they'll spread
seeds of fellowship and humanity
attempting to carve out some vibrant patch
away from all the insanity

our actions impact everyone
it's in this way we live on
we just have to change how and what
then we can usher in a new dawn

for those without heirs
think long and hard about what riches are
i think you'll find they're not things
they are the people now who you can help go far

for even if it's just a tiny offer
a handful of seeds to someone in need
well my friend, you just helped change the world
all it took was one small deed