Bill Rice, Jr.: 17-12-2025, 
The masses will (or might) respond to the right leader. In the film “Casablanca,” there’s a reason Nazi Major Strasser wanted to silence Resistance leader Victor Laszlo. As it turns out, some potential threats to authoritarian tyrants are more important than others.
By now, I’ve identified probably 20 “keys to the operation” for the world’s real rulers, who seek to protect the Status Quo and expand their control, power and wealth – operations intended to bring unfinished projects to fruition.
One key to the operation is keeping the masses as ignorant – or as distracted – as possible. This is because the “masses” – if they suddenly became enlightened and engaged – would pose the only real threat to the Powers that Be.
Said differently, if hundreds of millions of adults remain oblivious to toxic initiatives, “We the People” are never going to rise up and demand real change, drain the swamp … or go to the garage, grab our pitchforks and march with neighbors to the U.S. Capitol or Wall Street.
The question of how a small group of people and organizations actually sedate hundreds of millions (or billions) of people intrigues me.
The answer, I believe, has several components.
First, the masses must somehow be “dumbed down.” Too many intelligent people with advanced critical-thinking skills would produce too many potential threats to the Establishment.
While it took many decades and required a march through several core institutions,