We vote. We debate. We argue over politicians like they’re the real decision-makers. But are they really in charge? Or are they just well-dressed puppets, reading from a script written by those with real power?
Behind every election, there are corporations, lobbyists, billionaires, and hidden networks pulling the strings. Policies aren’t always shaped by public interest but by those who fund campaigns, control the media, and influence economies.
The question is: Who truly holds the power? The government? The wealthy elite? Tech giants? Intelligence agencies?
And if politicians are just the face of a system much bigger than them, does voting even matter? Or are we just choosing between different masks of the same machine?
They’re not wrong about democratic backsliding in this case, but I generally ignore this index, which The Economist Group[1] publishes for the purposes of imperial core propaganda against states that it wants to regime change.
The tribune of the aristocracy of finance. — Karl Marx ↩︎
What are better indexes for this data?