Oligarchs vs Administrators
Many like to entertain theories about who is pulling the strings behind the scenes. While interesting to follow, they ignore much of how power is instantiated today. The answers are much more mundane.
With the recent assassination attempt of former president and current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — which, according to Google, may not have even happened —
and the recent removal of President Joe Biden as the presidential candidate for the Democrats, has led to a lot of speculations about who was behind these events, why now, and what did they want to accomplish? There are conspiracies about the “billionaire oligarchs” making power plays behind the scenes. People what to know who is pulling the strings. It is obvious to anyone with a modicum of intelligence that Joe Biden is not running the show, so it begs the question, “who is in charge?”
Once you are immersed in the online right, there is no shortage of villains to be found. People are identified. Certain religious and ethnic groups get pointed to again and again. We like the idea of some master manipulator behind the scenes, pulling the strings. Or it is some conspiracy cooked up by a shadowy organization…
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