“Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations that've long since bought and paid for, the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pocket, and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and the information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them.”

--George Carlin

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This quote by the late comedian George Carlin rightly highlights some of the fundamental problems that modern societies are currently grappling with. The reality is that unfortunately, politics, and its expressions such as democracy/kleptocracy are merely constructs striving to give individuals an illusion of choice in governance. In truth, only a handful group control all spheres while using us commoners as bargaining chips!

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