PeteFree.comChuck Shumer and our Oligarchic Masters' divide and conquer plan — where to from here?
© 2026 Peter Free
05 February 2026
Last week set the stage
We got public release of the latest batch of Epstein files.
Those prove, beyond doubt, that the Western world is fully controlled by murder-prone pedophiles.
Distraction then sprang into action
Among a plethora of the Western Establishment's attention-diverting ploys — including absurdly dragging Vladimir Putin into the mix — see, for example, here and here — American Senate minority leader Chuck Shumer posted the following bit of ostentatious insanity on X:
The SAVE Act [which calls for US voter identification in federal elections] would impose Jim Crow [see here] style restrictions on voting.
According to Shumer . . .
. . . having to prove that you are a person listed on your locality's voter roll is exactly equivalent to being a 1940s American black person. Meaning a baselessly discriminated-against someone, who was racially assigned to the historically long-battered end of our then apartheid society.
The logic in Shumer's equation of two vastly different times and societal cultures would escape even a mildly thoughtful 8 year old.
Shumer's statement is so irrationally ridiculous, that it must be aimed at keeping our politically fractious, propagandized — and generally unthinking — population in distracted, full squabble mode.
Enter fundamental political constructs
Australia's Caitlin Johnstone recently concluded that:
Political maturity is finally admitting to yourself that the angriest, most disconcerting communist you’ve ever met was pretty much right about everything.
They have the most lucid and correct understanding of capitalism.
They have the most lucid and correct understanding of imperialist extraction.
They have the most lucid and correct understanding of western warmongering, global power dynamics, white supremacy, institutional racism and misogyny.
That’s why they keep being proven right, about everything from US military actions to the fascism of the far right to the abusive nature of the so-called “moderate” liberal to the moral depravity of billionaires and the capitalist class.
There are still individual communists who get things wrong of course . . . . But there’s no group which perceives the abusive dynamics of this civilization with a greater degree of intellectual clarity as a whole.
© 2026 Caitlin Johnstone, Political Maturity Is Realizing The Commies Were Correct, caitlinjohnstone.com.au (05 February 2026)
What to do about all this?
Recall that Che Guevara became a physician and only afterward, a communist. Was he advancing (in scope of practice) along the same healing-intended route?
The overall question is not whether communist theory is correct about rampaging capitalism's evils.
The question is whether communism — for example, China's integrated state and private capitalism — is reasonably correct in its purportedly more humane solution.
On the positive side, China places much more emphasis on raising its population out of poverty, than the United States ever has.
And simultaneously, we could recognize Chinese government's current emphasis on cleaning up corruption. Something that the United States daily (and blatantly) illustrates in the opposite direction.
On the other hand, becoming the equivalent of a societal ant (PRC style) may not appeal to naturally obstreperous Americans.
The question is always how to maintain . . .
. . . humanity-benefiting order among 'zillions' of people.
Historically, democracy always fails, when organized above relatively small populations. I suspect the same limitation applies to even mildly liberty-protecting forms of communism.
The conundrum is always, whom to assign the evil-fighting hammer.
In that endeavor, no one has persuasively surpassed Plato's call for philosopher kings.
The moral? — The ultimate question being . . .
. . . how is a philosopher king going to justly and time-efficiently assign evil-doers to the guillotine's blade?
Perhaps AI-designed artificial intelligence will figure it out. And after that, we could have clean-up robots wandering around, plucking Epstein-like people from our midst.
The entirety of US and European leadership would probably disappear, during just one year of such a cleanup.
The future may be grand.
Or not.