The 5 Why's and the Injustice System

If you've never heard the "5 Why's" theory, this is a great show for you. It's a tactic that helps you come to the root cause of an issue, by asking yourself "why" 5 times. The theory goes that by the time you answer the 5th "why," you should be at the root cause of whatever issue you're addressing (or at least close enough). So, I apply this theory to the system! Why? Why not, right?

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The thirteenth Amendment to the United StatesConstitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as
a punishment for a crime. Everwondered how we ended up with the largest
prison population of any country. Haveyou noticed that those whose jobs it is
to protect and serve seem to bedemanding more and more blind obedient. You
didn't think it just happened by chance, did you. It's time to call

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attention to the fact our government asthe most prolific slave owner on the planet.
This is surviving the system. Thankyou for joining me today on surviving
this system. This is Dance andDave, and you know, today I
thought I would talk a little bitmore about politics and specifically like politicians and

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specifically why they institute and implement thepolicies and procedures that they do, especially
around in any part of the legalsystem. And I was taught in business
many years ago about a practice calledthe five whys. The five wys is

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essentially saying, when you have anissue that you're trying to tackle, when
you're trying to get to the bottomof and figure out the root cause,
if you ask yourself why and answerit five times by the fifth why you
should be at the root cause ofthe issue. So, for instance,
if your team is not performing atthe rate that you want them, to

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say, why, Well, maybeit's because the economy is struggling. Why
And as you continue to dig deeper, eventually you get to the root cause.
So I'm going to do a littlebit of that tonight, Like,
let's go into the why. Whydo they institute some of these policies,

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Why do we have, per capita, the largest population of incarcerated people on
the planet. Why are they doingthese things? And I've talked a little
bit about this here and there throughoutother shows, but I figured I would

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put it all together. So beforewe get going on that, a couple
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we get started, since we dotend to tackle some more difficult and frustrating
and dark topics, start with justa quick moment of gratitude to make sure
that we can tackle these topics ina constructive and productive manner. So with
that said, I would like tosay that I am I'm so I'm so

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grateful to be here with you allowingme to live out my purpose to help
to remind you of who you reallyare and what you're truly capable of.
So I was reading a case theother day about a gentleman who was sentenced
to death and through a series ofevents, eventually was released after decades inside

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fighting for his freedom. You know, one of the cases you hear all
too much about, but only ifyou're listening, because you're not going to
hear it on the mainstream media,where police and prosecutors in the system just
pick somebody and goes after them witheverything they got, damn the fact,
if there's evidence to the contrary,they're just going to put their blinders on

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and they're gonna go get them.So, now that we have DNA evidence
to support scientific facts in these cases, a lot of this is bringing to
light the fact that they got thewrong guy, not just in this particular
case, but in so many others. And that raises the question then of

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how many other people just didn't getthrough the appeals process, how many of
them were turned away when they triedto reopen the case. The number of
exonerations it's happening right now is thisis my personal opinion, but I'd be
willing to put money down on it. It's the tip of the iceberg.

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It is a small fraction of thepercentage that are truly, truly inside that
shouldn't be. And as I wasthinking about all of that, I thought,
you know, why do we sentencepeople to life in prison? Because

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that they're done, that's it.It's not life. We're sentencing them to
death in prison. You know,it's a very interesting double speak, very
orwelly in very nineteen eighty four,where it's actually the opposite of what's being

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said. So we're sentencing these peopleto life in prison. No, they're
going to die in prison. Theyare you. You are casting them off
from society and saying you no longerhave any worth to anybody out here.
Go get in that box until youdie. We don't ever want to see

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you again. I can't possibly imaginethe mental and emotional psychological strain that that
would take on an individual too.I mean number one essentially just be waiting
to die and know that there's nothingyou can do about it. On this

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again, this isn't even talking aboutthe people who were sentenced to death,
which they even sit in there fordecades before anything is carried out. Justice
is not swift in this country byany stretch of the imagination. So you

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know, then it got me thinkingthink by what the media said, But
I mean it's the people that votedit, so I don't think everybody was
up in arms. So what gotthat, What got me thinking about that

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was the fact that these people thatare sentenced to death by in Nebraska,
it's by lethal in injection. Whatthey were finding out was these drugs were
extraordinarily painful, like some of themwere expired. And this is this is

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the mentality of politicians, not justin Nebraska, but I guarantee you it's
it's in other parts of the country. But the supplier for the medications that
were used in the lethal injections,the suppliers basically said, yeah, you

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know, well, we're not givingyou these anymore. There's studies, there's
reports coming out saying that this isessentially torturing people to death. It's not
the quiet, peaceful release that you'rebeing sold. No, no, and
you're using expired medications. So theysaid, yeah, we're not. We're

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not sending you any minute. We'renot We're not selling you these anymore.
So instead of Nebraska saying, wow, maybe there's maybe there's something different we
should be doing. They're not evengoing to supply us these drugs anymore because
of how terribly we're treating the peoplein our state that are incarcerated in our
care. Now, maybe we shouldrethink things. No, no, they
doubled down and just went overseas andfound another supplier, legal or not.

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Who knows. Nobody really even lookedinto it. There is some question,
but we'll never know now because whywould you investigate yourself. So these studies
were all coming out about how thisdeath by lethal injection is unconstitutional because it's

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essentially it's torturing people to death.The studies that came out showed that extraordinarily
like it burns your veins, extraordinarilypainful before your heart stops. So they
inject these into you, which issupposed to help your body relax and fall
into a peaceful sleep, and thenthey stop your heart. No, you

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basically can't move. It's a formof paralysis and your entire body feels like
it's on fire. And then thatthat got the thinking like, again,
why why would we do this topeople? Why would we do this to

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people? And then that led medown another train of thought, and I
thought, now, let's let's goback to those people that are sentenced to
life in prison or I mean,make sense of this to me, What
if they're sentenced to like two hundredyears or life plus ten years, Like,
what are you You're gonna put himin for life and then after he

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dies make him serve ten more years? Like it just the absurdity of it
is ridiculous. It's just a wayto pile on. But why do we
have all these individuals that are sentencedto life when we know, again it's
essentially death, and then we thetaxpayers, are the ones that are supposed

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to pay for that. I don'tthink anyone in the general public understands the
fact that when someone is sentenced tolife, you gotta pay for that.
Now, it would make more senseif when that happened, if we all

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just got sent a direct bill andsaid, Okay, we're sentencing this kind
of life. I'm going to needyou to write a check now for two
hundred thousand dollars, which is goingto cover his expenses for the rest of
his life. That's your portion.I'll tell you what, if you can
just break that up over like thenext forty years. We can go ahead
and do something like that to makeit a little easier on you. Can

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you imagine if you've got a directbill every time the legal system in your
state, or imagine even at thefederal level, every time somebody was sentenced
not just to life, just forany length of time, if you got
the bill. But we don't eversee the bill. We don't see the
bill. We're just fed this lineof how the police are there to servant

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protect and how the politicians create theselaws to allow society to function properly to
an extent in theory maybe, butin practice it's been perverted. It's been
twisted to why and again, whyare we hiding these things? Why is

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all of it just wrapped up inour quote unquote taxes, which and I've
I've discussed this before as well,but if you just take the word taxes
and replace it with the word profitit things might start to make a little
bit more sense to you. SoI really started to do just some quick

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looking into the psychology behind politicians,like what's the psychological profile of a politician?
Because the government and the system andpoliticians, they've got entire armies of
people that are dedicated to putting togetherpsychological profiles of the people they deem to

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be criminals. Well, why don'tWhy don't we have any psychological profiles on
them, at least that we knowabout. Apparently there's plenty out there.
It's not exactly like it's a hiddenfact of their psychological makeup, especially once

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you get to a higher level,Once you get to a certain national level,
you know, city city government,like local city council, school boards,
things like that, that tends tobe genuine people who are really trying
to make a difference. Once youstart going up from there into like your
state Senate or Congress, or eventhe governor's office or even the mayor's level.

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I mean, just think back toall of the stories coming out of
Chicago from the Nine Team, whattwenties on through the end of that century.
The mayors in Chicago, Illinois werehistorically corrupt. Like if you if
you say to people the terms Chicagopolitics, instantly it triggers in people's minds,

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dirty, shady, underhanded politics.It's just become synonymous because of how
many mayors of Chicago, even uptill recent memory, have been involved in
a bunch of shady bunch of shadyshit. So what's the psychological makeup?

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So I stumbled across an article andremember when I when I do some research,
I don't there's a couple of waysthat you can do research. Now,
research is going out and finding informationof about your topic, regardless of
whether you agree with it or not. That's not the point. So as

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I went into this, I waslike, let me just take a look
and see what's out there. Andas I started reading this article, it's
very obvious that the writer is democratic. She's a Democrat. She leans to
the left, just very much analyzingTrump and talking about the psychology of Trump.

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However, as it goes on,she actually starts to broaden a little
bit and she says, now,the thing is, though a lot of
these traits that Trump has, well, it's not just him, it's it's
politicians in general. And the runningtheme that seems to go through not just

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this article, but many other articlesthat I found on the psychology of politicians
narcissism narcissistic traits. According to astudy done by professors at Cambridge and the

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University of London, it finds thatnarcissism is positively correlated with wealth and success,
and that it's apparently a common traitin many presidents of the United States
according to research, and that shemakes the statement quote, it almost seems

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as if a requirement for politicians ishaving some amount of psychologically diagnosable narcissism unquote,
And again, regardless of her politicalleanings, there's some there's some real
nuggets of truth in there, andI think overall that's the one that I

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took from it. It's a requirementfor politicians to have some amount of psychologically
diagnosable narcissism. Well why and thatwhy? In order for me to have

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answered that for myself, I hadto be like, you know what,
what exactly is the diagnosis of narcissism? Especially now that word is being tossed
around so much. I hear peopleleft and right, Oh, that person's
a narcissist. Oh that's so narcissistic. Quit being such a narcissist. It's

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like, what are we just tossingaround words that we don't really know the
meaning of? Like is everybody inthe world now a narcissist? Is everybody
in the world projecting that much?Like does everybody else think that everybody else's
narcissists, and it's trying to pointthe finger like that's a whole other rabbit
hole. But I mean, really, is everybody everybody in your life a

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narcissist? So what exactly is it? So? I went to Mayo Clinic.
Mayo Clinic dot org a wealth ofinformation on I mean, just about
every type of diagnosis, physical andpsychological that you can imagine. Mayo Clinic

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has some shady stuff going on behindthe scenes too, However, when it
comes to basic things like this,they tend to have at least good research
that can that you can look to, respectable research. So narcissistic personality disorder,
according to Mayo Clinic, is amental health condition in which people have
an unreasonably high sense of their ownimportance. And I didn't even have to

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keep reading from there. I mean, if that doesn't exactly sum up what
a politician is, I don't.I don't know what else would. A
narcissistic personality disorder causes problems in manyareas of life, such as relationships,
work, school, financial matters.People with narcissistic personality disorders may be generally

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unhappy and disappointed when they're not giventhe special favors or admiration that they believe
they deserve. M not that theydo deserve, but that they believe they
deserve. Listen to the way thatthat's worded very carefully, And I want

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you to now think, imagine apolitical campaign, which isn't too difficult because
it seems like everybody is up forelection. God, it's like never ending
anymore, never ending, constant campaignads and debates and televised debates and televised

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interviews, on and on and onand on and on. How many of
these people truly believe the things thatthey say, Like, do they honestly
believe? No, this is whoI am and at my core, this
is what I believe. Or dothey hire research organizations and political action committees

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and NGOs non governmental organizations essentially nonprofitsthat are arms of the government without being
arms of the government legally, andhire them all to do research and find
out exactly what it is that peoplewant to hear, Now, what is

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it that people are concerned about?And they have staffers that work for them
that will run these reports, doall this research and bring it back to
them and say, hey, onthe topic of abortion, here's what the
majority of people think and they go, got it. If I need the
majority of votes, that's what Ineed to say. I'm on it.

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These people are crafted their personas,their personalities that are projected to the public
are researched and refined and rehearsed overand over and over again. When we

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come back, we're going to behitting a break here pretty soon. But
when we come back, I liketo go into a little bit of the
symptoms of narcissistic personality dy disorder becauseas you start to go through there and
again as you overlap it with thistrain of thought. This we started with

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incarceration, which led us to politicians, which led us to corruption, which
led us to narcissism. If wefollow that back and look at these symptoms
and overlap it along that train ofthought, and just keep politics in mind
as you read through these kind ofeye opening it's really eye opening. There

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was a movie with Matt Damon thatcame out a few years ago. The
name of it escapes me. It'llcome to me, It'll come to me
as soon as the show ends,and then I'll be like, oh,
that was the name of that show, and I won't be here to repeat
it. But he's a politician,and at the beginning of the movie he
loses a race, but he hasthis moment of truth. He has this

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moment where he just kind of breaksdown and tells everyone that he's speaking to
the truth instead of what he wassupposed to be scripted to say. He's
telling him about you see these shoes. You see these shoes. You see
how these little scuff marks on theside. Do you know that we researched
and did focus groups to find outexactly the right amount of scuff on these

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shoes because not enough scuff would looklike too fancy of a shoe and you
wouldn't relate with the people with theblue collar workers. Too much scuff and
people would think that you were toostingy and you couldn't manage your money because
you couldn't afford new shoes. Thisis just his shoes. And I remember

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this just absolutely distinctly, because he'stelling the truth. Like Hollywood, for
as much as they might lie andtry to brainwash us, they still have
to drop those nuggets of truth inthere, like truth is always truth.
There's nothing you can do to changethat fact. So he's out there in

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this movie basically telling everybody, Hey, do you realize that everything about me
that you see right now has beenput together by a focus group because we
know how you think better than youdo, and I know how to make
you like me. Will pause rightthere. We will take a break.

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When we come back, we willtalk more about narcissistic personality disorder. Thanks
for tuning in, stay with us, Welcome back to Surviving the System.
Thanks for staying with us. Ifyou are again listening live on Fringe dot
FM, the number is one eighthundred and five eight eight zero three three
five eight hundred five eight eight zerothree three five. I'd love to hear

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your perspectives on what you think aboutpoliticians. Do you do you think I'm
way off base? Do you seethe same things that I do? I
don't know? Am I alone inmy thoughts? So before we took a
break, we were talking about wewere talking about the fact that it seems
like politicians all have similar trait inthat they have narcissistic personality disorder narcissism,

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And we're discussing what exactly that is. And it's essentially a mental health condition
where people think unreasonably highly of themselvesand their own importance. They feel the
need for everyone else to admire themand I mean almost worship them. So

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we'll just go through some of thesesymptoms. Again, I'm pulling this information
right from Mayo Clinic dot org,and some of the symptoms I'm not going
to read all of them. Oneis feel that they deserve privileges and special
treatment. Now, first of all, one of the reasons that politicians aspire

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to get to Washington, DC,to get into Congress or the Senate or
the presidency, whatever it may be, is because after that they're set for
life. They essentially get money forthe rest of their lives from the government

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or basically from you and me.We pay for them for the rest of
their lives. We pay for theirmedical treatment. Their medical treatment is covered
one percent. They don't have topay anything out of pocket. If you're
the president, you get secret servicefor the rest of your life. Why.
I have no idea. You're noteven in office anymore. You don't
do anything in the government anymore.Most likely, why do we need to

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be so concerned about your life justbecause you were the president or even just
over the last three years, thinkof how many politicians got caught in COVID
when the rest of us were beingtold to lockdown six feet apart, wear
your mask, YadA, YadA,YadA. How many of them were caught

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at parties, taking vacations, nomasks, no social distancing. Did you
ever see the clip of did youever see the clip of a press conference
that Trump did? And they leftthe cameras running after the press conference was
done, after he left the roomand a couple of reporters were overheard,

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you could see them. They justlike took their masks off, just drop
it down over their mouth and thenI'm so glad we get to take this
off now the camera's off, likebasically just being like, whoh, that
was a great show we put onfor everybody else out there watching on TV.
Now we can go ahead and takethis off because we don't really need
to wear them. I mean,politicians outside of sports figures are treated with

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the most privilege and the most specialtreatment in our country. We hold them
on these pedestals and just revere them. Why because they want us to.
It's in their personality expect to berecognized as superior, even without achievements.

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I mean, if that, ifthat doesn't speak directly to politicians, I
don't know what else does. Everytime comes up for election, they have
to go back through and justify theirrecord and tell you why everything that they've

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done was fantastic, how great itwas, and how beneficial it is for
you, and how they had yourbest interests at heart. No, dude,
you were You were paid. Apolitical action committee came in and paid
you under the table. Legally they'vefollowed the right process, but you were

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paid to have that opinion. Well, let's be real it. We all
know it. Make achievements and talentsseem bigger than they are. Why is
it that politicians are so revered?What exactly do they do? Have you
ever heard any of them speak whenit's not off of a written speech or

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a teleprompter. Most of them canbarely even stream together a coherent sentence.
The intelligence level is low. Theonly reason that they're in the position that
they're in is number one, they'remoldible. They can become whatever the hell
needs to happen to get elected.And number two, they're controllable. They

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do what they're told, expect specialfavors, and expect other people to do
what they want without questioning them.I mean again. I will just go
back and talk about politicians. We'rejust expected to do whatever they tell us

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to do. Now, I wantyou to I want you to just stop
for a second and just try thisthought experiment with me. I promise it's
painless, and I promise it's quick. What would happen? What would happen

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if all of us at one time, the next time that a politician says
we're going to need you to doX, y Z. What if everybody
just said no? What does thatlook like to you? Can you even
process it? Or has the programmingbeen so ingrained and you're unconscious that you

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hit that wall? For that?Fear kind of kicks in and you go,
I can't say no. What ifI go to prison? I can't
say no? What if I losemy job? I can't say no if
people talk about me behind my back. Yeah, you know why we've all
been programmed with that, because theonly reason that any of them have any

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power at all is because we allowthem to if they govern by our consent.
If we stopped giving our consent,they couldn't govern us anymore. So,

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Yeah, they have to have usdo whatever they want without questioning them.
We can't question them take advantage ofothers to get what they want.
That right, I could probably dotwo three shows just off of that,

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but I'm going to keep it evenin this context. How many how many
correctional institutions, how many prisons?Hey, the prisoners, the people that
are incarcerated to do work for agovernment agency or a contractor that has friends

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with the government. Like if you'vewatched the movies or you watch TV,
maybe you've seen the old stereotype ofthe prisoners making license plates. It's I
mean, it's not an unjust stereotype. It happens happens here in Nebraska too.
You can get a job and makethe license plates. So you create

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laws that get people in trouble fortheir actions, and you create punishments that
take them out of society, removeall of their rights and freedoms, make
them a slave. According to theConstitution, the thirteenth Amendment. You take

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these slaves, and you now putthem in one central location, we'll call
it all I don't know, aprison, and they can do whatever the
hell you tell them to do becausethey are now your slaves. And the
rest of the general population out therehas consented to allow you to do that,

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and now you can say, hey, I need some license plates,
let's go. And if they refuse, God only knows what's going to happen
to them. So yeah, takeadvantage of others to get what they want.
I mean, come on, Ican go on and on and on
with examples outside of a prison,but let's be honest, behave in an

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arrogant way, brag a lot,and come across as conceited. I mean,
have you ever have you ever hearda politician speak? Ever? So
that's all they do now. Alongwith the symptoms though, and this was

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interesting. At the same time,people with narcissistic personality disorders struggle with handling
anything they view as criticism. Theycan't take the criticism. So what you
will see is they have major problemsinteracting with others and easily feel slighted,

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difficulty managing their emotions or the behavior, withdrawal from or avoid situations where they
might fail. Now just stop andthink about this. First of all,
let's just go back and talk aboutthese have major problems interacting with others and
easily feel slighted. They can interactwith people who worship them with no problem

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whatsoever. Maybe they're a little awkward. Politicians can be a little awkward around
people from time to time. Imean, have you seen have you seen
the videos of creepy Joe Biden andthe photo ops with all the kids.

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I mean, just look it up. Probably not on Google because you'll never
find it, but go go lookit up somewhere else. A little awkward,
to put it mildly, But ifanybody questions them, they take such
offense to that, Like if areporter pushes back too hard on a politician

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or the president or congressman or whateveryou might be, if they push too
hard in their questioning and actually dotheir job and say, hold on,
that doesn't make sense, or holdon that's not true because x y Z
they're done. They are never broughtback to a press conference ever again.
Ever, that politician can say thatguy has never allowed here again. I

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will never take questions from him everagain. Easily slighted, I mean,
just the smallest challenge. Have difficultymanning their emotions, managing their emotions and
behavior. This one's a little deeper, but I say this because how many

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stories recently have we heard of politiciansbeing caught doing some pretty stupid things when
they think nobody's looking. I mean, it's not even recently. We just
hear more about recently, but allthrough history. I mean, let's go
let's go back. Let's go backwith thirty years and what about President Clinton?

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I mean, do you think doyou think that man has difficulty managing
his emotions and his behavior? I'mprobably gonna say yes, I don't think
that that's too much of a stretchand withdrawal from or avoid situations in which

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they might fail. I mean,come on, they're they're politicians. They're
politicians. They're not going to fail. They're going to do everything that they
can to look like they're going tocome out ahead. There's no way that
they're going to go into a voteor a political race or a reelection campaign.

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There's no way that they're going togo into that thinking they're going to
fail. And what happens as soonas it as soon as they realize yeah,
this isn't gonna work, do theysee it through to the end,
No, they bail, They quit, Okay, I'm done. Or I

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mean, if you get really goodat it, you just blackmail everybody else
and have them do whatever it wasyou wanted to do. In the first
place anyway, you know. Andafter I got done reading this article about

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the narcissistic personality disorder and kind ofin my mind relating that back to politicians
and just ticking the checkboxes. Yepthat Matt, Yep, that's good,
Yep, that's red, and lineYep, that sounds about right. Then
I thought, well, what aboutthe correctional officers, Like we all know

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that that's a difficult job. Imean, you're put in a position where
you are essentially the slave driver.You are sent to oversee the slaves and
keep them in line, and youget paid to do so, and you

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get paid to do so quickly andefficiently. And if that means violently,
well then so be it. Imean, they're just slaves. They don't
really have any rights anyway. AndI found an article from cyclive dot org

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called working behind the Wall Mental healthof correctional based staff. It's very interesting.
Again, I don't go and specificallyfor things that are going to reinforce
what I think or what I knowcoming into reading this article. So I
will say, if if I didn't, if I hadn't gone through what I

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had gone through in the past.After I read this article, I would
think that every correctional officer in theworld was Superman and that they walked on
water. That paints them as heroes, and it paints them as loving family
men. And here's the thing,there's still people. I'm not knocking them

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specifically. However, when you're putinto these situations, go back and listen
to the to the show that Idid talking about the Stanford prison experiment.
When you take average, normal peopleand put them in this position of power

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overseeing other human beings, it beginsto corrupt them very quickly, very quickly,
So you have burnout. You havethe stress of day to day threats
of conflict and violence, coupled withbeing locked in an institution far away from

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the population. For example, herein Nebraska, we have TSCI two.
Comes to state Correctional Institution. Tocome to Nebraska is about an hour hour
and a half south of Omaha,middle of nowhere, surrounded by cornfields,
small town I mean, population ofmaybe maybe twenty thousand, i'd guess,

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and a lot of times they'll takepeople from the other facilities here in Omaha
and Lincoln and ship them down therebecause they're so understaffed. So you've got
an hour to an hour and ahalf trip both ways, and they have
to work most of the time mandatoryovertime, so they're working doubles six seven

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days a week. I'd burn out, dude. I couldn't do that every
day all day. I couldn't work. If you ever worked in an environment
where he just didn't get along withthe other people, like you didn't get
along with the other coworkers. Imean, I've been in management positions before,

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too, and I've had to manageteams of people that just hated me.
And it was miserable. I hatedgoing to work every day. Hated
it. Now imagine this. Imaginegoing to work with a group of people
who view you as the enemy.And we're not just talking office politics.
We're talking the potential of realistically lifeand death in some situations, not all.

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It's a small percentage, but it'sthere never knowing who that person is
that is that small percentage. Imean, these individuals are put in these

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positions of power of other people psychologicallyburnt out. And you couple that with
the findings from the Stanford prison experimentthat talk about the fact that then they
begin to act out in violent andcontrolling ways to get the prisoners in line.

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What winds up happening is they juststop caring. They just stop caring.
And as time goes on and moreand more, this society seems to

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be so tough on crime. Everybody'srunning on a tough on crime approach.
It attracts people who want those positionsof power, who enjoy those positions of
power. You hear about it onthe police force all the time. You
just don't hear about the fact thatthose same people working corrections too, they

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love they get they get a powertrip off of bossing other people around and
making them do whatever they want todo. Hey, what you're asking me
to do doesn't follow the rules andregulations. I don't care to do it
anyway, What are you gonna do? Sumi and their attitude, and sadly
they're right, there's there's nothing youcan do about it. And this is

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a much more difficult topic as weget as we get winding down, as
we come to a close, youknow, trying to keep this constructive and
productive and think of things that youcan do with this information and how you
can now take this new knowledge andmove forward and be be positive about it.

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You know, not let it eatat you. It's difficult because what
are you going to do go outand start calling politicians narcissists and try to
get them removed from power. Whatare you going to do vote them out?
Is the guy you replace them withis a politician who has narcissistic tendencies,

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You're going to get more of thesame. You're just wearing a difference.
So I will again say, wehave to bring it back to our
local communities. The best way toreplace the system that you don't like is
to create a new one that's betterthan the old one, and it just

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replaces the old one. So ifwe want to get rid of the narcissists,
we start creating groups of people inour own communities who aren't narcissists,
who are genuine people who care aboutothers, genuinely care about other people,

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not going to change their mind basedon the new polling data, not going
to say whatever they need to sayjust to get you to vote for them.
That may be you, it maybe your friend. I can't run,
I can get involved. I can'trun for office. I wouldn't want

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to run for office, knowing whatI know about politics. What we just
talked about there. I don't wantto get in there, but you can
still make a difference. I hopeyou have found value in today's show.

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Don't forget. You can reach meat Surviving the System dot org, Facebook
dot com, slash Surviving the System, and on Twitter at STS the podcast.
Take some time look around your localcommunity, see where you can make

(49:51):
a difference. You know it's there. You probably already thought about it.
As I'm saying that, you're probablylike, yeah, he's right, I've
got to go do that thing I'vealways thought about. You go go do
it. And in the meantime,if you have a story to tell,
if you'd like to tell me abouthow it goes, or even if you
just like to reach out for adviceand we can workshop it, send me

(50:14):
a message let me know how Ican help. Thanks again for tuning in.
I will be gone next week gettingsome teeth worked on from the dentists,
so I will talk to you allthe week after and as always,
remember, keep your head up,don't let them get you. It may
be easy to look at all thecorruption and manipulation in the system and feel

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hopeless. Here at Surviving a System, we hold to the belief that greatness
is born in the midst of extraordinarystruggles. You were created with a purpose,
with infinite potential, and many havelost sight of that back We're here
to remind you of who you are. The best revenge the success