The construction of political deception

It is very surprising that the victims of political oppression and economic subjugation support their perpetrators, sometimes fervently. This happens when the abused are unaware that the dominators operate so that they do not offer resistance; they deceive and hide information about the mechanisms used to subdue and plunder.

The construction of political deception goes beyond the actions of some scoundrels who lie and mask what happens. These scoundrels are the last link in a process that includes the context of values and interpretations imposed by the dominators along with institutions established to ensure that subjugation and looting can continue.  

The context of values and interpretations

When a powerful minority dominates large population majorities, it imposes values and interpretations of “reality” that favor them. With this they legitimize the larcenies they commit by granting them an invented vile of legality. Thus, they justify in a thousand ways that it is legal and legitimate for a few to accumulate wealth and the power to decide on the essential, while others have to accept in peace what has been appropriated from them. It is not recognized that the appropriator abused his power to include in his estate what does not belong to him. On the contrary, he is presented as a winner without further investigation into how he managed to accumulate so much wealth at such a speed when it is impossible to achieve it with only “the sweat of his brow”.

To clear up suspicions, with their substantial resources they finance universities and research centers that are dedicated to giving them ideological cover up. That is, they explain that the policies that the dominators impose respond to an impeccable economic rigor, the best and most serious to manage the functioning of society. They hide the disastrous effects they produce, that while a few live in opulence, many more suffer poverty or indigence, that the environment is destroyed by irresponsible abuses, that freedom of expression is skewed in favor of those who flatter them while cornering opponents.        

What accompanies this perspective is that in the face of punishments and problems, everybody believes that they can “save” themselves. With selfishness, greed, ignorance of others, averting one’s gaze, prevailing only one’s own or in whatever way; collective construction is devalued. It does not matter that one in a thousand may emerge as a meritorious example to follow, the other 999 are left to their own devices; there is a reason why they are not winners and are guilty of their poverty or ostracism. That is how they hypocritically maintain this. 

This context of biased values and interpretations expands to all social and economic corners creating the opprobrious conditions to multiply political deception. The indignity of lies, lack of protection and suffering, the risk of a path of instabilities and furious antagonisms, nests in its bosom.  

The institutional trenches

To establish and extend over time the values and interpretations they impose, those who dominate make sure they control strategic nodes of the country and global functioning. Among others, they take over hegemonic media with which they manipulate public opinion and dumb down or disorient will; place complicit judges and prosecutors in key positions in the judicial system that facilitate looting, persecute opponents and ensure impunity for the crimes and violations they commit; finance teaching and research centers to shape the reasoning and subjectivities of their graduates in their favor. They co-opt sectors of politics and journalism with perks and covert payments.

These and other dominator-controlled institutions are activated whenever they are needed. While they can, they operate covertly, but if they are confronted, they also do so openly, submerged in the networks of impunity and mutual aid of which they are part.    

Operating the deceptions  

In this context of biased values and interpretations and with the support of the institutional trenches that protect them, act the scoundrels who deceive, lie, misinform about what is happening, distance public attention from the robberies committed and the pile of victims that result from the dominating action, distort history, trivialize entertainment, withhold what is significant.

These actors, especially politicians and journalists known for their complicity in the abuse of power, misrepresent what happens by hiding the responsibilities of those who commit crimes in order to loot. They set in motion blatant lies that are then taken up by complicit judges and prosecutors putting together cases of high impact on public opinion. Although some, over time are unmasked as false, they have already fulfilled the objective of discrediting and persecuting opponents. Without any pruritus they attack the honor, dignity and security of those who are the object of a coordinated iniquity. They know they lie; they understand the crimes they commit, but they do it because of the payment they receive and the impunity they believe will be eternal.

The construction of political deception is not a spontaneous process, but has its genesis in dark global centers that indoctrinate local accomplices in their work of betraying their compatriots to receive compensation, significant for them, although crumbs of the looting carried out by the chains of dominators.

As is almost always the case, no plundering force is completely homogeneous. From time-to-time interior cracks open, sometimes furious antagonisms, that lay bare the outrages committed. Informants emerge, spurious false operations are unmasked, and crimes are reported. There are spaces for certain repairs and we welcome such appearances. However, the tragedy of the subjugation and looting is that it leaves an enormity of dead, disappeared, punished who suffered all their lives. For them there was no reparation, they are just nameless victims caused by miserable unbridled victimizers in their search for opulence and power.       

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