THE RICH AND POWERFUL ARE DERANGED SURVIVALISTS
If the actions and policies of U.S. and Israeli politicians confuse you, you may be misunderstanding their purpose.
The rich and powerful are fully aware that human civilization is collapsing. They are the ones deliberately causing the collapse. What they are doing is hoarding wealth and amassing weapons for one purpose: to save their own skin.
why anger and shaming alone are no longer winning strategies
Anger and shaming are valid emotions but we should remember that our leaders are already perfectly comfortable with them. Trump loves controversy and has profited immensely from it. The system they uphold can withstand anger and shaming easily. It monetizes them, uses them as propaganda, and uses them as pretexts for more attacks.
why warning lawmakers of an apocalypse is not a winning strategy
Those causing the apocalypse are aware they are causing an apocalypse. They are simply betting on being the ones to survive it. That’s why they are hoarding resources and amassing weapons. It’s why so many of them are invested in arms and engaged in insider trading.
why calling our leaders illogical or immoral may be valid, but is ineffective
Nihilists don’t have values to bruise. They have adjusted their psyches to be comfortable with lying, cheating, stealing, killing, raping and torturing. They gave up trying to be logical or moral a long time ago. They see an epic conflagration coming and they want to be the winners.
why calling our leaders corrupt or criminal may be true, but is ineffective
They are the ones breaking the laws and taking the bribes. They know better than anyone that our political system and policies are illegal and corrupt. They are not planning to start following laws again once the current emergency is over. Their strategy is to buy control of the legal system that would prosecute them. Their strategy is to dismantle the legal frameworks that humans have built to allocate consequences.
Weapons CEOs are not trying to defend America or defend democracy or defend civilization.
They already know America’s collapse is well underway. They know that the U.S. is not a democracy, and neither is the corporate world they live in. They are profiteering from chaos, hoping to be in the winners’ circle when the dust settles. That doesn’t necessarily mean military victory. It means stoking permanent conflict while continually increasing investments in weapons. It means hiding in a bunker when the surface of the Earth becomes unlivable for everyone else.
Tech billionaires know that AI will not save the U.S. economy or solve any of society’s problems.
They know AI data centers are obliterating our water supply and destroying the habitable environment. They know that AI is infringing on rights and degrading its users’ intelligence. AI is a weapon. Investment in AI is an investment in violence. AI weapons' ultimate purpose is to protect these billionaires against everyone else. The goal is not a strong economy or better society. The goal is for them to survive the apocalypse they are actively causing.
Fossil fuel billionaires know that more domestic drilling is not a permanent solution to endless conflicts over oil.
Oil is a finite resource and it is running out. Oil companies’ purpose is not saving America. Their purpose is to prevent a transition to sustainable energy. Their purpose is hoarding, in preparation for collapse.
Today’s rich and powerful are aware of famines.
They know that scientific consensus has warned that global starvation is coming soon. They read the same headlines we all do. They are not trying to stop it. They are trying to make sure they will have food for themselves. They are hoarding resources and building protected enclaves on the bet that they will be the ones to survive.
Trump is not trying to make America great again.
And neither are Democrats. Every politician in DC knows that America will never be great again. What they are doing is trying to save their own skin in the revolution or world war they know is coming. Because this fact can no longer be hidden, someone must be willing to play the bad guy. Trump is currently the one performing that role.
Netanyahu is not trying to save Judaism.
Calling criticism of Israeli military policy “antisemitic” is a propaganda device to get everyone to fall in line with billionaire survivalists. What changed since October 2023 is that Israel realized they must give up on trying to appear moral. The violence that had previously been hidden from the American taxpayer who funds it could be hidden no longer. Netanyahu is currently the one willing to play the bad guy role for the sake of colonizing “Greater Israel.”
Israel’s publicly stated goal is the annihilation of its neighbors.
Investing in Israel means betting that Israel will succeed. Or at least betting that the wars will continue to be profitable. That’s not just war profiteering, but war crime profiteering. Using taxpayer or pension money for those illegal investments forces the average person into an awkward position. They now must also wish for the annihilation of Israel’s neighbors, whether they actually want that or not. Most Americans are repulsed by the idea.
Having personal ties to Israel is not a legal defense for genocide.
A war criminal is not your friend, even if they are a Democrat. It’s possible that some of them are nice people but simply clueless, due to living in a bubble of yes-men and sycophants and in an environment that has normalized war crimes. I suspect most commit their war crimes knowingly. They expect their gullible supporters to try and come up with some kind of clever defense for their actions, while the politicians themselves could not be reached for comment. They are not committing these war crimes on your behalf, nor on behalf of Jewish safety, nor American safety, nor democracy. They are committing them on behalf of themselves.
why lesser-evil voting is no longer appropriate
When both evils bet on the profitable collapse of civilization, lesser-evil voting means voting to collapse civilization. When both evils are comfortable with your death if it can mean their survival, lesser-evil voting means voting to sacrifice yourself for the sake of a politician. It means sacrificing yourself so that the world can stay at war and arms dealers can get richer. It means sacrificing yourself so that Israel can steal some more land for its apartheid state. Ask yourself is those are causes worth dying for.
It’s not that Democratic politicians don’t realize that they could win elections by saying “Free Palestine.”
They realize it. They don’t say it because they don’t want to free Palestine.
Any Dem politician could score instant political points by championing any number of popular policies.
“Stop funding Israel’s wars.” “Stop funding apartheid.” “Abolish ICE.” “Defund the police.” “No AI data centers.” “Forgive student loans.” “Medicare For All.” “Invest in clean energy.” “Tax the rich.” If you aren’t hearing your favorite politician say these things explicitly, it’s because they oppose them.
Just because a Dem politician wants to keep you in denial about the contradictions of capitalism doesn’t mean they are in denial about the contradictions of capitalism.
They know that an economic system that prioritizes greed and endless growth on a finite planet is unsustainable and self-destructive. They know that capitalism is now ending the possibility of civilized human life. They read the papers just like you do. What they are doing is preparing for that end by hoarding wealth and amassing weapons.
Anyone invested in war, capitalism, AI, or oil is telling you straight up that they are betting on the end of civilization.
But that doesn’t mean they are correct. A program of peace, justice, sanity, and international cooperation could also succeed. Such a program needs to be shown to be more popular. Such a program needs to be shown to be more sustainable and more fun.
The rich and powerful need to be convinced that they cannot remain rich and powerful on their current course.
They live in a bubble of no consequences, not even for war crimes. They need to see real legal and financial consequences, not just anger and shaming. They need to be defunded, boycotted, and striked against. They need to be defriended, sued, and prosecuted. They need to be unsubscribed from, switched off, and ignored. Their program of destruction needs to be delegitimized, disobeyed, and sabotaged. Their narratives need to be countered with the truth. Their destruction and hatred need to be countered with creation and love.