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I really believe it boils down to control. How do you ensure someone is going to do your bidding. It seems like they only put people into power that have been compromised. That way they always have the blackmail in hand to keep them in check.
The US began wholesale spying on its citizens decades ago, but they didn't stop there. They use social media as their intelligence gathering apparatus. Instead of playing cloak and dagger games people willingly give up all their information.
This is the evolution of a society without privacy where people have been trained to offer up their lives to marketers who in turn sell this information to experts that use the best of psychology to manipulate us.
Targeted oppression, uncontrollable greed, and a lust for power have taken root and created a worldwide cabal of wealthy individuals that can and will call the shots for all the nations. They do this through their favorite proxy the corporation.
It is no wonder every nation is beholden to private enterprise with most nations ranging over 90% of legislation either written directly by corporate lawyers or written on their behalf with their constant guidance.
The other 10% is often performative legislation like bathroom bills in the US or anti-immigration laws in Europe. These are designed to create social divisions and pit humans against each other in a form of controlled opposition.
Those bathroom bills are 100% also model legislation, written by a consortium of interests' lawyers too, but yeah totally.
They've created a monster in acheiving their financial goals in the republican party, that they will lose control of, just as hitler was celebrated and given license to crush socialists and clamours for reform, the true danger has always been an all powerful leader, it never ends well, but especially when you start out with a bad leader that is mentally deranged.
Italy's Mussolini for his faults wasn't the same kind of next level evil that Hitler was, and hitler is the one our fascists are emulating, despite the historical record showing hitler let it go to his head and made bad decisions, like managing the eastern front and dooming it changing objectives multiple times with winter approaching.
But if, when it appears, they get absolute power, with their successor, presuming there isn't a popular opposition that runs a reform ticket aggressively and builds and runs a real political machine, they will borrow until they max it out, and give license until trust dies and a recession starts, and they will bail it out but at some point it won't be enough, and in that downturn they will start to target the rich, and soon their allies, first for reasons, later targeting productive companies and the rich for the ends of stealing their wealth.
They are so afraid of some moderate reform restoring the country to it's prior state to before 1971 when they entered into a conspiracy at the business roundtable to pervert and destroy the republic, that they will allow an all powerful leader that will destroy them one way and or another. Many are so old they don't care, and many are religious nut jobs too so there's that.