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>Only good thing I can say is that they are all not one singular entity but a blob of random interests all working towards the same goals. Even then, they are fractured and not as unified as they first appear.
yeah, not all of them share the same interests. Money doesn´t bring actual friends. If not, they bring enemies everywhere.
>Though it all depends on what criteria you use to denote who the elite is and who you consider a elite vs someone who is influenced by them, made concessions to them, or is even unaware or does not believe such a political reality.
the problem is that you have to anticipate the movements from them and understand what that tactic actually means by being subtle. It´s not an easy task to figure out who is who and it can lead to confusion. Even when they are losing, they jump onto the winning side overnight out of nowhere. They don´t know the meaning of defeat. In fact, they hate it. They only want to put the masses on a big test and study those cases.
It´s hard to see through but the actual target one should be asking are bankers, speculators and economists. Politicians are just puppets to hide and make random fuss in order to hide their movements. That tactic bores me as well but it has worked flawlessly for them by controlling the entire media.

>Perhaps that was one of the deeper thematic inspirations that made that fic work so well. One could draw parallels with Luna and some of the more insurgent groups around these days. legitimate sparks, but the group is lead by someone who is more fearful then reasonable and doesn't have the most experience in the world.
indeed. However, I didn´t want to put MLP on a political situation so explicitly. It has to be hidden behind revenge, some motivation for such levels of corruption and so on. Those tactics of manipulating the language of an entire civilization and acting like the new Jesus for an hostile species should spark a thought of building a corrupted civilization built by hate. Still, it had to be subtly written and with a good excuse.

> you can't just have fun for fun sake without that in the background of your thoughts. You can still have fun obviously but sometimes even that can get crossed over by the politics gong on. It makes it harder to tune out.
Indeed. Since 2015, I started to grow an interest for politics and progressively, it became a daily routine to think about it. That bitter weekend degraded motifs that were unrelated to it yet they suffered either way. What I have managed to control myself and not getting on my nerves about it. Thinking about it like a chess game with several players moving the pieces at once in different directions. I may suffer their consequences but still, there is no way to get out of them. Embracing them and getting saturated until boredom has been my solution. I have also avoided watching TV (blatant propaganda btw) and I have regained some health over time.