By LARRY ROMANOFF – August 24, 2020
This essay is another attempt to help Edward Bernays' "bewildered herd" connect some dots. The content is only marginally about politics but these two following quotes are necessary to set the context.
Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank of England, in a speech to the US Bankers’ Association in New York City in 1924:
"By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance. It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished."
From Boris Berezovsky's failed attempt to transform Russia into a fake two-party state:
". . . heated public battles would be provoked and fought on socially-divisive issues, while both parties would be controlled from the stage wings by the same small group of ruling elites and bankers. With the citizens permanently divided and popular dissatisfaction safely channeled into meaningless dead-ends, these puppet-masters could maintain unlimited wealth and power for themselves, with little threat to their reign." (1)