By Ben Bartee
\nTHE DAILY BELL<\/p>\n
Like Shakespeare said,\u00a0\u201call the [political] world\u2019s a stage.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n National-level US electoral politics are a performance.<\/p>\n The audience is the population; the actors are the politicians; the generous patrons of the arts are the oligarchs. The purpose is paralysis and pacification, to keep the population wedded to the idea that its voice matters in a \u201cdemocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n The objective reality is that\u00a0popular opinion doesn\u2019t matter one iota to elite decision-makers<\/a>. But, as long as they can convince enough of the NPC electorate that it does, the hope is that they can stymy any popular resistance to the regime by funneling voters\u2019 angst into pointless elections.<\/p>\n Hence the \u201cdemocracy\u201d fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n No other explanation other than the theatrical suffices for why the\u00a0Democrat Party is bankrolling the most fervent \u201cstop the steal\u201d Republicans<\/a>\u00a0in national races from Pennsylvania to Arizona.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n In April 2015 \u2014 before Trump\u2019s infamous \u201cMexicans are rapists<\/a>\u201d announcement speech, before the \u201cgrab \u2019em by the pussy\u201d leak \u2014\u00a0Hillary Clinton Inc. devised a \u201cpied piper\u201d strategy<\/a>. She plotted to deploy her cronies in the corporate media and DNC machinery to \u201celevate\u201d Donald Trump in the GOP primary.<\/p>\n Per the pied piper strategy, as evidenced in leaked emails published by Wikileaks (free Julian Assange!), Clinton wanted to use Trump\u00a0\u201cas a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right.\u201d The intended effect was \u201cto make whomever the Republicans nominate unpalatable to a majority of the electorate.\u201d<\/p>\n Presumably to this end, and also because Trump\u2019s bombastic and energetic speeches drew eyeballs, the corporate press\u00a0gave Trump $5 billion in free media coverage<\/a>\u00a0throughout the primary campaign \u2013 all while feigning outrage at his racism, misogyny, etc.<\/p>\n The idea was that Clinton and her media proxies could prop up Trump, drive the GOP base to the \u201cfar right,\u201d and get an easier opponent to beat in the general election as a result.<\/p>\n Hillary Clinton, aka Dr. Frankenstein 2.0, built a monster, and it devoured her in the general election. She\u2019s still trying to find something, anything to blame besides herself \u2013 Russia, racism, Jill Stein.<\/p>\n Obviously, the pied piper strategy backfired.<\/p>\n