{"id":36639,"date":"2022-06-09T22:15:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T03:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=36639"},"modified":"2022-06-09T22:33:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T03:33:31","slug":"worshiping-the-lesser-evil-will-always-allow-evil-to-rule-over-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=36639","title":{"rendered":"Worshiping the \u2018lesser evil\u2019 will always allow evil to rule over you"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why is America ruled by evil men and women? You don\u2019t want to hear this, but it\u2019s almost certainly your fault.<\/p>\n

Almost everybody has been brainwashed to choose \u201cthe lesser of two evils.\u201d You\u2019ve been brainwashed to hate one side or the other of the mainstream, so much that \u201cyour side\u201d seems almost sane and saintly by comparison.<\/p>\n

So most of you hate one group of politicians or another. The makeup of the groups changes over time. Some people used to hate Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan more than anybody else. Then they hated George W. Bush. Most recently, they\u2019ve learned to hate Donald Trump with every fiber of their beings.<\/p>\n

For another group, it was once George McGovern, then Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy. Bill Clinton and Nancy Pelosi soon followed. Today, it\u2019s Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who they hate with passion.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re pushed into a corner, many of you might admit that the candidate you enthusiastically support is a terrible person in some respect or another, but you\u2019re adamant that you must support your \u201clesser evil\u201d \u2014 because a different brand of evil would rule us if you didn\u2019t worship the evil you choose to support.<\/p>\n

And this mass social brainwashing results in the vast majority of people knowing<\/em> their rulers are evil, even the ones they support \u2014 but unwilling to step away from this system \u2014 because \u201cthe other evil would be so much worse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This is why the partisan political system will continue to give you the insanity and evil that you\u2019ve come to accept from it.<\/p>\n

Here’s a perfect example that I ran across on Facebook earlier this evening. It’s a comment (from someone I don\u2019t know) in response to the contention that Donald Trump is a narcissist:<\/p>\n

\u201cBetter a narcissist who loves America than a zombie puppet manipulated by those who hate America and want to teach sexual deviance to your children,\u201d<\/em> this man wrote.<\/p>\n

As long as you continue to fool yourself with this sort of thinking \u2014 \u201cyour side is more evil than my side, so I\u2019ll lovingly support my brand of evil\u201d<\/em> \u2014 you will continue to enthusiastically accept and support evil rulers instead of expecting to be free men and women instead.<\/p>\n

Is Trump a narcissist? Of course he is. Of course\u00a0he\u2019s dangerous. I’ve written about the dangers of the man multiple times, so this is nothing new for me. I said he was a potential Hitler-like figure long before he was elected. Anybody who’s paid serious attention to his history could see that he has no ideology or morals or scruples. And anybody who thinks Trump “loves America” has just been brainwashed by fear of “a greater evil.” He has no core other than his own dysfunctional false self.<\/p>\n

But after working in politics for 20 years, I have absolutely no doubt that the rulers from the other side are narcissists, too. Trump is an unusually severe case \u2014 because most of them are smart enough to hide it better than he does \u2014 but anybody who wants this sort of power and control over the lives of millions of people is pathologically dysfunctional.<\/p>\n

Any system which gives power and money to the winners will attract narcissists to the top. I see no way you could get anywhere near the top of this system without being a narcissist in some form or another. That matches what I saw working in politics. The higher a politician rose, the more likely it was that he was a narcissist. And to stay at the top, it takes narcissism and blind devotion to your own ego and need for power. The people who don’t meet those criteria — the hopeless dreamers who still believe what they were taught in school — tend to wash out or quit in disgust.<\/p>\n

These people who are willing to control others are evil \u2014 all of them<\/em> \u2014 because controlling and manipulating other people against their will is a truly evil thing. They\u2019re all sick and they\u2019re all just different flavors of dangerous.<\/p>\n

The American political system today is an idiotic game of chicken. The vast majority are so brainwashed that they continue adamant support of their particular brand of evil — lest the other brand of evil gain power. The people on both sides are afraid to quit the system, because they’re certain the evil people on the other side won’t give up on it.<\/p>\n

Right now, there are very few of us who openly admit that what we have is evil. There are very few of us who realize that we need true “power to the people” — which is power to individuals to make their own decisions. There are so few of us that we can’t insist on change.<\/p>\n

But if a critical mass of people ever refused to support evil of any kind — and demanded that they be left alone to live their lives in peace and personal freedom — the evil narcissists in charge would lose their power to control us. And that includes the evil narcissists on any side.<\/p>\n

As long as you fear “a greater evil” so much that you’ll enthusiastically cheer for “the lesser evil,” you’ll keep getting what you get right now.<\/p>\n

If this is you — and you want to know who’s to blame for this mess — just look in the nearest mirror. As long as you’re willing to support a “lesser evil” of any kind, nothing can change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why is America ruled by evil men and women? You don\u2019t want to hear this, but it\u2019s almost certainly your fault. Almost everybody has been brainwashed to choose \u201cthe lesser of two evils.\u201d You\u2019ve been brainwashed to hate one side or the other of the mainstream, so much that \u201cyour side\u201d seems almost sane and Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-9wX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36639"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36657,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639\/revisions\/36657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}