Last night in Southfield, Michigan, two so called “Democrats” stood on a debate stage and performed the same tired ritual we have watched for decades. Haley Stevens, the four-term congresswoman, and Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive challenger, spent an hour arguing over who better represents the working class while thirty million dollars from AIPAC-aligned groups hung over the room like incense. While the world continues to burn away the circus of partisanship politics continues to feed the bread and circuses for the masses to consume and pick a side.
El-Sayed kept naming the number. Stevens kept refusing to say the letters out loud. The moderator pressed. The cameras rolled. And the entire spectacle proved, once again, that the real contest is never between left and right. It is between the people who still believe the theater is real and the people who have finally noticed who owns the stage. Because guess what, these two are genuine friends behind the scenes pretending to debate one another - like every political debate we see in the mainstream.
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I am not interested in which of these two candidates is more pure, I am not the final judge. I am interested in the pattern that has repeated since the first century and unplugging normies. When Jesus walked into the temple courts and saw the tables of the money changers, He did not launch a political party… Because all of it is bullshit and disconnected from the true ideal vision we are trying to inch towards as a populace. He flipped the tables and drove the merchants out with a whip of cords. The religious authorities who had turned the house of prayer into a den of thieves immediately began plotting His death, because their power depended on the arrangement.
Look at art hisory, which is my specialty that I will be regularly uncovering here. El Greco’s Christ Cleansing the Temple and Tiepolo’s Expulsion of the Money-changers both show the same moment: the institutional guardians of the sacred recoiling in shock while the radical from Nazareth overturns their profitable order.
That is the archetype. The Pharisees of every age protect the system that protects them, and our AIPAC controlled politicians are literally no different. They will tolerate almost any ideology so long as the flow of tribute continues. Dual allegiance is not a conspiracy theory. It is the open operating principle of the American political class. And to their credit, AIPAC does not hide it. They publish the scorecards openly and laugh at us simultaneously. They announce the spending totals and celebrate the further the goyim support them. They hold the conferences where senators of both parties raise joined hands under the same banner.
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