The Welfare State is the Warfare State

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Have you ever heard the term ‘rent seeker’ before? I had never heard about it until last week. But as it turns out, those who wear that name tag have existed for a long, long time. According to Ross Ashcroft, the person who recently mentioned the term ‘rent seeker’ on a TV program, rent seekers are people who apportion someone else’s resources or wealth to then redistribute it to whomever suits them better. As history shows, rent seekers have been around for a long time, both in the extreme right and the extreme left. While on the extreme right rent seekers are part of a group better known as the Oligarchy, on the extreme left they come in the form of those who use bureaucracy to confiscate the resources and the wealth of others in order to bring about their dream of ‘social justice’. For the past 100 years, the western world has seen the reign of rent seekers from the extreme right. After the adoption of the fractional reserve banking system as a model for development, the extreme right began their conquest of as many resources and as much wealth as they could get their hands on in order to give it to themselves. Meanwhile, mainly in the eastern world, extreme left rent seekers adopted the other side of the same coin. While the western oligarchs consolidated power and wealth in the so-called developed world, in the east, obsolete ideologies were used to con people into believing that government was the best manager of resources and wealth. The idea was sold that government, authoritarian or democratic, was wiser about the use of land, cash, and people’s livelihoods. Rent seeking includes many types of practices that are commonly understood and legislated as illegal, but that somehow are deemed legal if government implements them or if government, influenced by power groups, creates exemptions for those who pay for political campaigns, bribes and influence. As you may have guessed already, there is a lot in common between extreme right rent seekers and extreme left rent seekers. While extreme right rent seekers go about infiltrating government through the acquisition and monopolization of resources, wealth and power, extreme left rent seekers install themselves in government, from where they suck people dry from the fruit of their labor. While extreme right rent seekers extort people of their property by stealth, extreme left rent seekers do it by presidential decree. It could be said that both extreme right and extreme left rent seekers are two strains of the same social virus, that work separately to achieve a common goal, which is to dispossess the people from their property, wealth and political influence while both groups make strides around the world to consolidate power. A recent analysis published by Princeton University which studied the balance of power between the people and groups of rent seekers from both extreme right and extreme left sheds some light on the issue: “Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results [of the study] provide substantial support for theories of Economic Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.” Can it get any clearer than that? Political and Economic elites and their power groups are indeed in control, not only of government policy, through which they control the people of the world, but also of smaller interest groups that eventually are absorbed into their dominion. As I commented on a social network, although Princeton’s analysis focuses on the United States, the dominance of the political and economic elites is not limited to North America. “This is not only in America, but in all countries where citizens boast about living in democracies and being free. Let’s see if this study awakens a few people around the world.” Unless you have been hibernating for the past 7 years, it should be abundantly clear already that extreme right rent seekers have conducted the largest wealth redistribution in the history of human civilization. After fully infiltrating banking and industry, which they already managed through their corporate network, and after buying off governments around the world, rent seekers deleted legislation or created loopholes in existing laws to carry out the most fraudulent practices in the financial world. Using some of the most ingenious scams ever invented, the banking sector — controlled by the lords of the fractional reserve banking system — illegally took possession of people’s savings, pension funds, gold and property all over the world in countries like Greece, Portugal, Ukraine, the United States, Britain, France and other European nations. Rent seeking, the Welfare State and the Warfare State For every place where they were not able to rob people of their livelihoods, extreme right rent seekers activated their extreme left rent seekers, and this is where the Welfare State became the Warfare State. Although the term warfare is often understood as the implementation of military oppression against a country or a group of people, rent seekers understood that warfare of that kind was no longer useful, so they enacted social warfare. This new concept is based on the idea that if people are distracted waging war against each other, one social group against the other, one religious […]

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