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I did address that. Or, in other words, the capital class which acts as a single distinct entity in most things, and uses tactics like this to ensure a lack of in-fighting.
So Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed politicians to ensure their absolute loyalty to the "capitalist class" which is also in charge of mossad and the cia? How do you explain the existence of other capitalist states whose politicians don't diddle kids? Or do you think they all do it secretly?
Don't you think that a salary upwards of $10000/mo plus various lucrative side-hustles and job opportunities from lobbyism and political favors, paired with the never ending nationalist propaganda about how capitalism and liberal democracy are the ideal and most fair way to organize humanity, is enough to ensure these people's loyalty?
The vagueness of your "critique" of capitalism and your talk about a coordinated group of people pulling the strings of the rulers of society and secret services, intentionally or not, comes off kind of antisemitic and incoherent in my opinion. (And no, I am not a Zionist or in any way foster a single positive opinion about the existence of the state of israel.)
Edit: I don't disagree with anything that "Albbi", the person you responded to, said in their comment though.
Name a single one, I'll give you an Epstein linked politician in it.
I don't think you've ever met anyone in business or politics. But specifically I was talking about people like Mamdani or Bernie, who essentially have no power and will never have any power that threatens capital. They will either eventually be approached, blackmailed, and forced to reverse course or killed if they ever gain actual traction.
If you believe anything I've said is antisemitic, you are unironically antisemitic.
You're the one making extraordinary allegations. The burden of proof is on you.
Anyway, your class-based analysis is over-generalized to the point of being useless, since it doesn't address the reality of factionalism and internal competition within the owning class, and the likelihood that there are many overlapping mechanisms that enforce owning-class solidarity, pedo-blackmail being only one. And some of those mechanisms are non-coercive, more akin to alignment of interests than to blackmail or extortion.
I don't think a guy like Friedrich Merz or someone like Angela Merkel or Jaques Chirac or even Barrack Obama or whatever did politics in favor of capital because they were blackmailed by a shadowy cabal of global elites with proof of their heinous sex crimes. Doing politics in favor of capital simply comes with the territory of being the leader of a capitalist state. Many of these politicians also either are part of or grew up within the capitalist class and are simply serving their own material and ideological interests.
I'm really not sure what you're trying to say about Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani either, as if the people on the Epstein list were all socialist politicians that got a little too powerful and would have paved the way for workers rights and equality were it not for the evil global cabal that enticed them to diddle kids and then blackmailed them to do a 180 on their otherwise honest and humanitarian views.
I don't think it really matters much for the existence of capitalism that some rich people like to spend their time raping people. If so and since you're saying this has been happening since around the 60s, how do you explain the existence of capitalism before 1939? Before 1914? And even before that? Is it all built on mfers getting blackmailed for diddling kids or are there maybe other incentives for people in power to enable the unfethered accumulation of capital?