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"There’s no one person who has a vested interest in keeping all of America stupid. Mitt Romney (picking one of the crew at random) wants to be elected President. He wants that because he wants power. To do that, he has to get the support of large voting blocs, make promises to people with money and clout, and trade favors with other members of the party machine. These various groups benefit from his election, to varying degrees, by having access to the halls of power. Once Romney is elected, he and the people who rode to power on his coattails will become the “people with money and clout” and the “other members of the party machine” referenced above. They will be kingmakers in the next election. And the cycle continues. If we were to call this cycle “the System” and ascribe intentionality to it, we could say that it is in the System’s interest to concentrate power in the hands of the creditor class, to limit the narrative about the social order to a small set of dogma, and to keep poor black and Hispanic people pacified. The System “wants” this even though, as you say, there is no system. It “wants” this because (1) everyone wants power, and (2) to get power, you have to pursue those ends"
