Appalachian folk musician Oliver Anthony hit the charts with the fire track “Rich Men North of Richmond” in 2021. To many Americans suffering under the tyrannical yoke of the authoritarian communist Biden junta, the song struck a nerve.
Ironically, its adoption by the Republican National Committee at the first presidential primary debate drew chagrin from Anthony, himself, who skewered Washington leadership as part of the problem the song identifies among established US powerholders.
The refrain goes:
Lord, knows they all just wanna have total control—
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do,
And they don’t think you know but I know that you do
This perfectly encapsulates the current power paradigm in the US and, more broadly, at the global scale. We live in a tyrannical governing system where the lived reality of the citizen is beset on all sides by guardrails, checks and balances, and invasive surveillance. There is no avenue for protection against the corporate/government surveillance apparatus short of total disconnection from society, compromising livelihood, and any chance at growing wealth. Simultaneously, citizens are squeezed from all directions to sacrifice hard-earned capital.
It is systematically almost totally impossible to accumulate capital. Citizens receive stipend-like salaries with little opportunity to focus on generating other forms of revenue and wealth. The system is designed so that salaries barely cover living expenses, and no politician has the intelligence or will to act to recalibrate the system. This must change.
We live in an era where the government has almost total control. This has been built by generations of establishment government officials consolidating power. They believe that any step in any other direction is a loss to them personally. Driven by endless greed, they persist unchecked, destroying any obstacles to inevitably consolidate their own power. Eventually, events will snap back in an explosive and violent way if they continue to persist.
The alternative is for these deep statist bureaucrats to step aside. Pursuing power for decades has left them dangerously short of wisdom. Many refer to them as children playing with fire. A sign of maturity is knowing when enough is enough and when to step aside peacefully. It’s time.
The quickest and easiest way to achieve this is to build consensus within the population. People must understand their own individual power to speak up and create. This process mist be supported by communities who already enjoy a perspective and level of personal freedom that allows disconnection from the tyrannical regimes in Washington, when they arise as they inevitably will in the natural ebb and flow of centralized political ideology.
Washington must be cleaned out. Must like students of George Washington University, Howard, Trinity, or Georgetown spend only several years living in Washington before moving on, so must be the political apparatus. The country overall will be stronger, wealthier, and happier if the political establishment is shattered and scattered nationwide than continuously allowed to rot in the swamps of Foggy Bottom.
Whose job is this? The responsibility lies with the citizenry, for certain. People must communicate with each other and vigilantly watch the federal government to ensure it is checked, and that the rotten ones are removed and sent back to the countryside— literally anywhere besides DC. The power currently rests also with the military-corporate surveillance apparatus and the Intelligence Community.
This collective group has brought rise to the notion of the deep state in its very own refusal to follow wise courses of action, instead favoring political ideologies and outdated doctrinal methods of population control. In the digital information era, dishonesty and deceit doesn’t work in the domestic sphere. It accelerates and catalyzes corruption, as we have seen in the disasterous Biden years. It’s the role of the IC and the military-corporate surveillance apparatus to root out corruption at the federal level and remove it from the governing system.
Total control is different than total awareness. In the latter, we can be aware, as a nation, of the ongoings and developments worldwide, but we don’t have to intervene. Certainly, no intervention is necessary on the homefront, and it is counterproduxtive, especially when undertaken along partisan lines. Awareness allows us to follow political, cultural, social and economic trends, but we must allow others to grow on their own.
Critically, the Washington rot must be removed in order to allow the national political system to operate democratically. That is how the country was built, and it might be maintained as such, for the betterment of America, and for the entire planet.
