The Corruption of Wealth and Power

I believe there is a huge gap between the wealthy, including politicians, big business, and the rest of the people. There are more rich than ever before, and most have become super greedy. It’s an addictive disease. It gets so it’s never enough for them.

 I truly believe many people start out with good ideas and good intent, but once they get into a powerful position, an old saying comes to the fore:

“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.” – Lord Acton, British historian in the late 19^th and 20^th centuries.

This need for more wealth and power is destroying society. Unfortunately, there is less and less freedom of speech and more and more of our liberties are being taken away. And it creeps down into the smaller, local towns.

Even criminals these days seem to have more freedoms than common people – those who have money, those who can “buy” their way out. The corruption among elite and organizations has escalated, and it doesn’t seem like there’s anything anyone can do.

And being told to go to the polls and vote has turned into a big joke. It’s a way to make people continue to believe they really have a voice. Yeah, right. Everything has gotten so convoluted, it’s hard to trust anything or anyone anymore.

They create good-sounding, helpful organizations to make it sound like they’re doing good work. They change the meanings of words. The definition of some words in dictionaries are not the meanings behind words being used these days. It almost seems the opposite.

For instance, whenever I hear the word “transparency,” my thoughts go to “What are they hiding.” When I hear the word “woke,” it means the opposite of being open-minded and being fully attentive to what’s REALLY going on. Words are used to confuse the masses between original meanings and intent to what is actually happening in today’s world. Because people will listen to nice words and not pay attention to what is being done and/or happening.

The most important thing people can do now is question. Question everything! Look for the deeper reasons behind what is being promoted – whether in politics or business. What is logic and truth versus what are the hidden agendas. Always ask, “Who are the ones really benefiting from this?”

There’s too much smoke and mirrors. People’s attention is directed in one direction, while those in authority are doing something else. There’s no balance, no fully listening to both sides.

I fully believe freedom for the people is being slowly crushed while the elite go on living life as if nothing is wrong. They are so high up in their towers, they have no real clue of life. Even those who have come from lowly backgrounds, once they reach that upper crust of the powerful, seem to have forgotten where they’ve come from and what it was like. That line about “… power corrupting absolutely” is in full swing.