Populism. Populist politics.

Populism and populist politicians are just another form of control in the Matrix. You’ve fallen for this hook, line, and sinker.

Let’s start with the politicians and the political class we’ve created. Politicians are narcissists. The overwhelming majority (95%) care only about themselves. Politicians say they are running “for the children,” when they are really only running because they have a massive ego. They don’t care about the children. They care about power. Political office = power. Politicians are working for us and themselves.

Populist movements have been taken over and bent to our own ends. The populist politicians throw red meat to the vox populi in the form of culture wars. Social media posts, news conferences, interviews about “the war on Christmas” or something else. Then those same populist politicians pass a giant tax cut for the rich that cuts Medicare and Medicaid for the very same people that elected them. It’s beautiful.

Populists promise to put the people first, and systematically enact policies that raise the cost of living on the very same vox populi that elected them. Tariffs and wars increase prices and the wound is self-inflicted by populists who continue to blame things that have nothing to do with the causes. Those increases only make us richer, and even the faux elite get in on the action.

Populists are on all sides, reeking havoc everywhere. Subsidies and large government directed spending on specific industries, coupled with new restrictions on other industries drives up costs. Cloaking that cost increase, populists blame the speed of implementation or claim that the increase should be temporary. Neither is true, but the vox populi join in with self-delusion.

As populism expands, we win. The faux elite are behind the movement. They are directing the movement. For every “face” you see, there’s some Harvard person behind them, telling them what to say, how to vote, and what to do. The political class wants power, and they’ll say and do anything to achieve it. We couldn’t build people easier to manipulate if they came off a factory floor.

Hilariously, you claim you know the politicians are lying, that they are bought and paid for, but you vote for them nonetheless. We’ve even created a system where you only have two flavors to chose from. Your local ice cream shop has more choices, but you’ve come to believe you can only have to choices, so when presented with another choice, you dismiss it out of hand, no matter how good the choice is. Many times you rationalize that your choice is different. It is not. We only give you narcissistic personality disorders to choose from.