Why ask why?
When how is obvious.
It is not like some secret cabal meeting in the bat cave has plotted and planned the current insanity in secluded secrecy. The whole left vs right, liberal vs conservative blame game is a lie. Part of the circus we distract and gas light ourselves with.
The bad guys have never wasted time or energy with hiding either their actions or their plans. They have aired their filthy laundry, bragged about where the bodies are buried, and committed their crimes blatantly. They openly mock their victims, hiding nothing.
While the victims, deliberately look away, pretending to not see, to not know. Because, the victims know that the moment they speak up, resist, or dare proclaim the truth in any way, in that moment, the bread and circuses will stop. The victims will have no choice other than confront reality. The victim will be faced with their own responsibility for allowing and empowering the evil, the corruption.
Thus, the corruption continues. The evil grows in intensity. Nothing is done in secret. There are no secret conspiracies. There is only the gas lighting employed by the victims which empower their abusers.
The horrible truth is,
No corruption occurs without the complicity of the victim.
No congame can work with out the active cooperation of the victim.
No tyrant can hold power, wield power, without the active cooperation of the people.
Hitler did not personally load anyone into a cattle car. Stalin did not inform on anyone, or stand guard at a single gulag.
The people did that. The people empowered the evil. The people carried out the evil. The people followed orders. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, all were powerless without the active support and action of the people.
Complacency, refusal to get involved, watching, cowardice, these are active choices, actions, actions that empower the evil.
The reason that conspiracy theories are popular is because those theories distract from reality, and play the blame game absolving the theorist of their responsibility. It is gas lighting. Nothing more and nothing less.
How long will the corrupt rule?
How long will evil prevail?
As long as people choose to empower it,
that is how long.
We really have no one to blame save ourselves.
Until we choose to accept responsibility, stop the gas lighting and say no, it will continue.
NO,
I make no apologies, no excuses are acceptable.
Walt Kelly wrote it, Pogo said it,
“ We have met the enemy and he is us. “