{"id":27316,"date":"2017-10-27T06:44:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27316"},"modified":"2017-10-27T06:44:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:44:28","slug":"how-the-elite-dominate-the-world-part-4-they-buy-politicians-and-incumbents-almost-always-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27316","title":{"rendered":"How The Elite Dominate The World \u2013 Part 4: They Buy Politicians, And Incumbents Almost Always Win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How The Elite Dominate The World \u2013 Part 4: They Buy Politicians, And Incumbents Almost Always Win<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Once we wake up to how the game is being played, then we will have a real shot at changing things.\u00a0 For decades, the elite have been pulling the strings behind the scenes in both major political parties.\u00a0 That is why nothing has ever seemed to change very much no matter which party has been in power.\u00a0 The agenda of the elite has always seemed to march forward, and ordinary people like us have always been frustrated that we can\u2019t seem to make a difference.\u00a0 But now a shift seems to be taking place.\u00a0 Donald Trump took on the establishment in both major parties, and he miraculously won the presidency.\u00a0 Down in Alabama, the elite spent more than 30 million dollars to defeat Roy Moore, and he still defeated Luther Strange.\u00a0 A political awakening is taking place, and I can\u2019t wait to see what happens during the mid-term elections in 2018.<\/p>\n

In Part I<\/a> and Part II<\/a> of this series, I talked about how the elite use debt as a tool of enslavement.\u00a0 In Part III<\/a>, I went over how the elite use the colossal media corporations they own to control what we think.\u00a0 Today, I want to talk about their influence in the realm of politics.<\/p>\n

In Washington D.C., it is well understood that the game of politics is all about the money.\u00a0 If I win my election, and online polling suggests that there is a ton of enthusiasm for my campaign<\/a>, I will be expected to spend most of my time on the phone raising money.\u00a0 As a freshman member of Congress, at orientation it will be explained to me that I am supposed to spend approximately four hours a day doing fundraising, and that is why the House and Senate floors are so empty most of the time.<\/p>\n

By law, members of Congress cannot make fundraising calls from their offices, and so both parties have huge call centers just across from the Capitol.\u00a0 Especially around lunch and dinner times (because those are some of the best times to reach people), those call centers are packed as members of the House and Senate run through lists of potential donors.<\/p>\n

And it isn\u2019t just about raising money for their own campaigns.\u00a0 As a freshman member of Congress I would be expected to raise at least $200,000 for the NRCC (the National Republican Congressional Committee).\u00a0 If I don\u2019t pay my dues, I would get into big trouble with party leadership.<\/p>\n

But you know what?\u00a0 I have already pledged that I am not<\/strong> going to participate in this very corrupt system.\u00a0 If I am sent to Congress, I am going to spend my time doing the job that the people of Idaho sent me there to do.<\/p>\n

So will Paul Ryan and the others in leadership get very upset with me for not \u201cpaying my dues\u201d?<\/p>\n

Of course.<\/p>\n

But it is time for some of us to take a stand and do what is right.\u00a0 Congress has become a cesspool of filth and corruption, and it is time to flush the toilet.<\/p>\n

Because if we don\u2019t fight this corrupt system, the influence of money in politics will just get worse and worse.\u00a0 Today, the elite pour millions upon millions of dollars even into small campaigns, and in 2016 it took an average of more than 10 million dollars to win a U.S. Senate seat<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How The Elite Dominate The World \u2013 Part 4: They Buy Politicians, And Incumbents Almost Always Win Once we wake up to how the game is being played, then we will have a real shot at changing things.\u00a0 For decades, the elite have been pulling the strings behind the scenes in both major political parties.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14257,7844,6069,4901,16718,536,12750,7729,16719,637,16720,10522],"class_list":["post-27316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-alabama","tag-donald-trump","tag-economic-collapse-blog","tag-michael-snyder","tag-michael-snyder-for-congress","tag-money","tag-pain","tag-political","tag-political-awakening","tag-politics","tag-roy-moore","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27318,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27316\/revisions\/27318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}