It s Time To Save Civilization From The Pathocratic State
The single word that best describes the professional-managerial class-dominated deep state agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, FBI, and others, along with news media corporations that engage in character assassination and disinformation, is pathocracy. We borrow the word from the late Polish psychologist Andrew Lobacweski, who documented the prevalence of narcissists and psychopaths in leadership positions in totalitarian regimes.
Consider the behavior of the mainstream establishment, which holds itself up as a paragon of democracy, freedom, and enlightenment values, over the last seven years.
The FBI in 2016 began an investigation into a newly elected president as part of a disinformation campaign to persuade voters that he was a Russian agent. Governments spied upon, entrapped, and spread disinformation about populist Trump supporters with the goal of convincing the public that they were violent and extremist. And the news media were active and willing participants in spreading seditious disinformation about a duly elected president and his supporters in ways aimed at silencing, arresting, and even incarcerating them.
Governments then demanded long-term society-wide lockdowns that grievously harmed children and other vulnerable populations and attacked proven, practical, and pragmatic actions. With the media s encouragement, they deprived hundreds of millions of people of their bodily autonomy to mandate Covid vaccines while censoring true accounts of side effects, inconvenient efficacy data, and valid questions about the virus origin.
The governments of the US and Britain, and likely many other nations, worked to deplatform and smear doctors, epidemiologists, and other scientists who dissented from various dogmas, from the pandemic s probable origin in a Wuhan lab, to the need for school closures and mask mandates for children. And the government of Canada punished protesters of these policies by freezing their bank accounts, a shockingly totalitarian tactic.
US and UK militaries and intelligence services, both directly and through NGO and business front groups, created disinformation and demanded the suppression and censorship by social media platforms of populist and nationalist voices or of politically disfavored information. Both current and former FBI and CIA officials spread disinformation aimed at covering up evidence of high-level influence peddling by the immediate family of the establishment s preferred presidential candidate.
And, over the last few weeks, the same donors, parties, groups, and government officials that oversaw the illegal, secretive, and authoritarian actions of the last seven years are weaponizing through lawfare governmental positions that should be nonpartisan, such as state Supreme Courts and state Secretaries of State, to deprive the American people their right to vote for the candidate of their choice.
“Pathocratic” — that’s good. Accurate too, I suspect.