It all makes perfect sense. Politicians do not, and never did, represent the people. They represent the person or entity that contributes the most to their own wealth and their own power. The wealthy will lobby government for protections for their own businesses and interests and against the interests' of their competitors and critics. They can wine and dine elected officials, promise them easy, high-paying jobs after their political career is over, and contribute directly to their re-election campaigns. Central bankers, and the commercial banks that serve them, make politicians far more powerful. Not only can government directly steal from people through taxes, they can do so indirectly through inflation and fractional reserve banking. The large banks and well-connected receive the new money first, before prices have a chance to rise, they buy up capital assets that will make them only wealthier, and then that money trickles down to cycle through the rest of the economy, and prices start to rise. Politicians can then fund outlandish, trillion-dollar programs through debt and money created out of thin air, and earn votes from people by buying them off. Lots of people will say that we can't criticize grocery stores or airlines for mask or vaccine mandates because they're "private companies". They are not. They have colluded with government for decades to have exclusive privileges, to have regulations that cost them a little bit but cost their smaller competitors too much to actually compete, making them essentially a monopoly or an oligopoly, depending on the industry. This is the bad incentive that the very existence of government, which is an organization that has the privilege to violate the rights of everyone else, has given rise to. We must abolish government and the entire religion of "statism". We must abolish central banking and fractional reserve banking, and have one or several sound currencies. And we must form our own private institutions to replace the functions that government currently (and really poorly) services, namely: police, fire, charity/welfare, road construction, etc. It's not hard to do. It is, in fact, way easier than it sounds. But it requires people to finally isolate the real problem, and then take action to solve that problem, and not get lost in all the noise that propagandists in all forms of media are currently pumping out to distract us from the banking cartel and the political elites.