When Elites Own the Narrative, and Own You Too
At America’s founding, the “right” to vote was determined by the state you lived in. States at this time limited that privilege to landowners. They reasoned that the role of government was limited to commerce and defense, not cultural or social issues. The people affected by the intervention of government were the net taxpayers, aka landowners and business owners, since the only tax was based on property or business, not income.
The social engineers recognized that in the system as established they would never be able to expand their control over the levers of power. If they were to displace the wishes of the productive class, they had to emphasize a class divide in which the majority were the victims of the “wealthy” landowners. They quickly got to work organizing movements and entitlement programs in the late nineteenth century. This carried on into the early twentieth century before they were able to create enough tension on the ground that the federal government amended the Constitution and created a new class of voter with the numbers and power to override the economic freedom that the productive class had come to enjoy. The parasite class was born.
Over the years the productive class has struggled to maneuver the political space, busily keeping their heads above water and raising kids, as the parasite class has grown to include politicians, corporate CEOs, bankers, the military brass, and even foreign countries. Incomes for the productive segment of society have stagnated, unable to keep up with inflation, as welfare for foreign nations, the rich, and the poor have increased, the federal reserve prints trillions, and politicians vote to give themselves pay raises. In addition, the bureaucratic state has grown by deepening the public’s trust in its ultimate “expertise” and “authority,” while robbing the people of their local sovereignty with an itemized receipt of kickbacks from the federal government.