The Purple Party is Coming for You

The Purple Party is Coming for You

How fear based politics hide two sides of the same agenda.

Not since before the Civil War has the US political environment been as stratified as it is today. Not much has changed when we look back at the principles that drove our country into civil war. The South said it was about the economics of farming and that slavery was necessary to maintain that economic power. In contrast, the industrialized north was less dependent on slavery and took the anti-slavery approach, while it was always about economics.

Nuance matters

Who wins and who loses? Stated agendas of political parties are often the different wings of the same bird. However, we are led to believe through propaganda of fear that one is right and the other is wrong. In reality, there is not much difference between the narratives.

Ultimately, the political agenda is about controlling who gets to control the people. And as it has been throughout history, whoever controls the currency controls the people.

Our founding fathers understood this because they were forming a government that directly opposed the oppressive policies of the English crown.

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” Thomas Jefferson.

Breaking the Chains

If the South could have maintained its economic power without enslaved people, slavery would not have been an issue, but it was, and many of the links in that chain still persist today. The real war was about money and who controlled the currency; the same is true today.

Eisenhauer warned us about the military-industrial complex. But it is deeply entrenched in our economics and domestic/foreign policy. The US’s very existence depends on maintaining a system based on unsustainable debt that favors the US at the expense of the rest of the world.

The difference between Republicans and Democrats is a smoke screen of the “purple party” that wants to maintain control over the populous to continue its global dominance. The government has been co-opted by money and has co-opted banking in an incestuous relationship that favors the status quo over the freedom and sovereignty of its people. Slavery is still an issue, but now it’s wage slavery and independent of the color of one’s skin.

If currency is the chain that binds us to a corrupt system, then the fix is easy. Don’t use the currency. Use alternative money whenever possible. Bitcoin was created to provide this exit and, as a result, has been the bane of governments all over the world. Again, Nuance matters; Bitcoin is not crypto in the popular sense, the currency is not money, and what is important about Bitcoin is not its price in US dollars (or its ETF value) but how it supplants dollars to foster an economic system that is not under the control of any government or bank.

Crazy right? Not really. When the rules of the game are rigged in favor of the house, you have two alternatives. Change the rules, or don’t play at all. We need to eat and have shelter, so not playing is not an alternative that anyone would voluntarily choose, but one that monied powers have no problem imposing on anyone. So that leaves us with changing the rules; the purple party would have you think that voting for red or blue makes a difference when the policies are the same: maintain the status quo.

Bitcoin will not so much break the chains of the existing system but will force it to transform into a more balanced, less control-focused alternative. One that is not dependent on ever-increasing debt and war to keep it going. Don’t vote with your party; vote with your money, buy Bitcoin, and keep vigilant.

1. Rhetoric vs action mismatch political leaders or voices employ libertarian/populist rhetoric, but their actual policies and actions enable the same elite power structures.
2. Co-opting technology for control vs. freedom, be skeptical about how innovations like blockchain and Bitcoin, while having emancipatory potential, can be co-opted by central powers to monitor individuals further and remove financial liberties. Surveillance infrastructure is often marketed under the guise of efficiency, transparency, or anti-corruption.
3. Importance of critical thinking: Do not blindly trust any ideological perspective or media source. But analyze evidence, funding sources, and consistency between rhetoric and action in determining who to trust.

It’s much easier to buy into red or blue rhetoric and tell yourself you have done something good when all you have done is participate in the ongoing political entertainment devised to keep you from asking questions about issues that make a real difference. Don’t trust verify.