Why Governments Are Doing Strange Things

 

Neil Oliver makes the point that the powers that be would never be going after Donald Trump so aggressively in court if they thought they could win the next election with the usual ballot stuffing and fraud. It is dangerous for them to be so blatant. It discredits them. They are burning through their credibility and their social capital.

And that, it seems to me, is the key to much that is going on in the world right now. Ruling elites around the world are rapidly becoming more oppressive, or trying to be, because the jig is up. They are resorting to desperate measures because things are getting beyond their control. The dam is about to burst on them; it is bursting.

The Devil always says the opposite of the truth. The elites are spreading the idea that the unskilled and less educated will soon have no social utility due to computerization and robots, and will have to be supported on Universal Basic Income to eat crickets. This is our clearest signal that the elites are about to become redundant due to computerization, and they know it. Each one of us will have all expertise and all available information at our fingertips, without the need for these expensive and often bullying gatekeepers.

You are also seeing the elite now starting to turn on their own. The US media is turning on Biden; the Canadian media grows critical of Justin Trudeau. Our local Liberal member boasted proudly to Facebook that he voted against his own government on a recent NDP motion. It was all for show; the motion hd no chance of passing. But The Vicar of Bray knows how to preserve his own position: there is panc among the deck chairs.