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Edwin's avatar

“There are no sides.”

“There’s no Sunnis and Shiites.”

“There’s no Democrats and Republicans.”

"Just haves and have nots."

It is all a “Big Show” and there is no Deep State but just “The State.“

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Peter Nayland Kust's avatar

The challenge is always recognizing exactly who is "they".

Government bureaucrats are always likely suspects. Fortune 500 CEOs are as well.

But what about the doctors, lawyers, school administrators, and innumerable mid-level managerial types? The ones for whom job "success" entails successfully leveraging the bureaucratic structure to achieve a little momentary gain--a promotion, a corner office, a larger expense account.

Are they part of the "they"? Or are they themselves just pawns? Or are they both--black pawns to our white pawns?

Which perhaps brings us to the classic quote from the movie "War Games":

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOoXwxqeVzg

So how do we stop playing the game?

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