Robert:  “What’s more interesting to me is the cartel’s ability to misdirect so many along the entire political spectrum.”

Me:  That’s because the vast majority are conditioned to austerity, scarcity, egotism and the resultant fear, anger and apathy. These individual (mostly unconscious) postulates cut across party lines and whatever other allegiances people have. As a Man thinketh, so is he. And there is no enslavement like the enslavement created by oneself….and held in place by the will and the strongest intention in the cosmos….the intention to be right, especially in one’s own mind.