They're Showing You One Monster to Hide the Real One

They are correct about the cruelty.

Let’s be clear. When a government incinerates 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed 1.5 million children for a week—while children starve overseas, that is an act of profound cruelty. When the Department of Homeland Security posts a meme celebrating the transformation of "ICE FUNDING INTO MASS DEPORTATIONS," it is a display of giddy, bureaucratic sadism. When a sitting congressman openly cheers the fact that millions of his fellow citizens have lost their healthcare and food assistance, it is a sign of deep moral rot.

The commentators of the old guard, like Charlie Sykes, are pointing to these horrors and telling you they have discovered a "New Cruelty," a unique evil that has infected one half of the country. They are telling you that the system is breaking down into a "meltdown" of chaos and infighting over things like the Epstein files.

They are telling you a partial truth. And a partial truth is the most effective lie.

They are curating the cruelty for you. They are pointing to the loud, crass, and undeniable malice of one set of political actors to distract you from the quiet, systemic, and far more vast cruelty of the entire bipartisan establishment they represent.

This is a limited hangout. They are showing you the monster in the MAGA hat so you don't look at the monster in the Goldman Sachs suit who signs the checks for both parties.

The real cruelty isn't a "new" invention of the last few years. The real cruelty was the bipartisan decision to ship your job overseas. The real cruelty was the bipartisan deregulation of Wall Street that led to 2008 and the largest transfer of wealth in history. The real cruelty is the Federal Reserve printing trillions of dollars to inflate the asset prices of the 1% while your grocery bill doubles.

The cruelty they show you on TV is a symptom. The disease is the Corporate State—the unaccountable fusion of state power and corporate power that runs this country, no matter who is in office. They need you to believe the problem is the style of one politician so you never question the substance of the entire system.

They point to the infighting over the Epstein files as a sign of one party’s hypocrisy. We point to it as a sign of the entire uni-party’s terror. Of course the base is dissatisfied; only 3% of the public is satisfied with how the administration has handled the release. The people suspect, correctly, that Epstein’s network was never about one party, but about the entire rotten, compromised ruling class. The chaos isn't a bug; it's a feature. It is the smokescreen they deploy while the real heist continues.

Do not be fooled by the palace intrigue. Do not be distracted by the curated cruelty. The outrage they are selling you is a product designed to keep you a loyal consumer of their political theater.

The real fight is not against the "New Cruelty." It is against the old, permanent cruelty of a system that views you, your family, and your community as a line item on a balance sheet. They are all part of it. And they are terrified you will finally realize it.