Darrell Castle provides commentary on the acquisition and retention of power, and those things necessary for its use to control the human population.

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THE ROOT OF ALL POWER

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, September 14, 2018, and on today’s Report I will be talking about power and its efforts to break the bonds that wise men have put in place to bind it.  For example, we know that James Madison, the father of the Constitution, said “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”  The reality that we face today is the opposite of Madison’s intent.

 We know from past discussions that power corrupts, and that power is also addictive.  Power is akin to a drug in that the more you have the more you want.  The desire for power and the acquisition of power corrupts both the mind and the morals.  The founders understood that and as a result they created a weak and divided system of government.  They didn’t want government to become too powerful because they didn’t even trust themselves to handle the addiction.  Power seeks to break its bonds and to control the human population, and that is the essence of today’s Report.

Politics is pretty simple when you really analyze it.  Whether we look at examples from history such as the Caesars, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, or many others, politics is simply the acquisition and retention of power.  How can I acquire more power and how can I retain the power I have.  If you look carefully at the political system of today you will see that very little has changed from the days of the Roman Empire, except the technology that allows for the acquisition and retention of power on a much greater scale than ever before.  Today’s power seekers have the ability to do something never before possible, and that is to control the entire human population. In other words, their addiction has gone global.

In order to acquire and retain vast amounts of power two things are needed:

1. The people over whom power is exercised must be divided.  We are now the most divided people in history.  We are certainly divided here in America but the whole world is divided.  I have never before witnessed such a complete demonization by each side in today’s divided country.  Both seek to acquire more power and, as a result, quite often neither seems to care about what’s best for the whole.

 Media pours out a stream of division in the form of propaganda to support its own preferred agenda. The media contributes greatly to the extreme racial division and polarization in the country.  Now, 63 years after the onset of the movement for civil rights for all, and almost everyone has accepted it as a reality, we are far more racially polarized than ever.

The Politically Correct movement divides us by changing our language to control how we think.  Those of us outside the movement resent the efforts at control and, therefore, we become more and more divided.  Orwell warned us about efforts to change and control the way we think by changing our language.  His creation was “Newspeak”, a new version of the English language that used all kinds of new words with opposite meanings in order to change the way people think.

2. The people over whom we exercise power must fear some outside threat.  The people must be made to fear a common enemy, a common threat.  For much of my lifetime, the outside threat was nuclear war with the Soviet Union.  We were under constant threat of destruction from a nuclear exchange, so vast sums had to be expended on defense.  When the Soviet Union dissolved we all breathed a sigh of relief because we were finally safe, but then along came Muslim terrorism as an excuse for constant fear and war.  The war in Syria was cooling off, at least for America, but now the side of the Civil War backed by Russia in fav...