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Then Kino, angry and determined never again to be deceived, sold his pearl to the Republican Party. This time his payment consisted of a tax break for the wealthy and some verbiage about a wall, along with a continuation and expansion of all of Obama's most depraved foreign and domestic policies.
This pattern repeats over and over and over again, whether it's the presidency or Congress, and the people never learn their lesson. They're trained to think of the two parties as competing, when really they're more like the left fist and the right fist on the same boxer. An orthodox-stance boxer uses the left jab and the right cross in conjunction with each other in one-two punch combinations to accomplish the same goal, namely to leave his opponent staring up at the arena lights and rethinking his life decisions. And in this case, the boxer's opponent is you.
Ralph Nader, who to this day is still falsely smeared as responsible for George W Bush's pseudo-victory over Al Gore in 2000, occasionally shares an anecdote about the time he told his father that what America needs is a good third party.
"I'll settle for a second," his father replied.
This is the kind of clear seeing we all need to have. We need to not fall into the drama of the two-handed puppet show and mistake what we are seeing for two separate and competing entities. We need to see and be aware of the puppeteer at all times.
Look past the "semblance of competition" and watch what the pearl buyers are actually doing.
Ignore their words.
Ignore their fake pro-wrestling kayfabe combat over impeachment agendas they know will never bear fruit and their Russia conspiracies they know are pure nonsense.
Watch their actual behaviors instead.
Don't fall for the illusion.
Don't get sucked into the drama of the two-handed puppet show.
Don't be deceived, Kino.
Don't sell your pearl.
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