It’s hard to control people who don’t trust you. From Chris MacIntosh at internationalman.com:
So much to talk about and so little time. I will make this statement because it is relevant to the situation we all find ourselves in today:
“Lord Anton (sic) says that ‘power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’. But reflecting, it is key to understand that power does not transform, it amplifies.
He who leads, shows what he really is… with more impact. Power doesn’t change people, it just takes away the need to pretend. The righteous protects, the ambitious abuses, the insecure becomes a tyrant. It is not power that corrupts, it is the true face of each that emerges when there is no longer fear of consequences.”
I believe that the reason we are seeing outright abuses is that the abusers used to operate in the shadows (covert). But now, as the cloak is forcibly removed, these actors move out of the shadows, becoming overt.
The problem with being overt is that the strategies that are used under covert (Epstein blackmail operations) are very different from overt ones. Once the actions become overt, the cloak is removed and trust evaporates. The ability to control the peasants when trust is no longer there also evaporates.
This is why we’re about to enter a time where authoritarian overt actions come to the table — where the pointy shoes drop the pretenses and show the peasants who they really are.
