Hi,

The elite class has always been very open about their intentions. We don’t need conspiracy theories or anything like that. Instead, all one has to do to understand their mindset/plans for the rest of us is to simply listen to them.

For example, do you remember in 2023 when Tim Gurner said:

We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around. There’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around. So it’s a dynamic that has to change. We gotta kill that attitude and that has to come through hurting the economy, which is what the whole global – the world is trying to do. The government around the world are trying to increase unemployment to get that to some sort of normality and we’re seeing it.

Or how about in 2022 when the chairman of the US Federal Reserve said his goal is “to get wages down” because workers have too much power in the labor market!

So in principle, it seems as though, by moderating demand, we could see vacancies come down, and as a result—and they could come down fairly significantly and I think put supply and demand at least closer together than they are, and that that would give us a chance to have lower — to get inflation — to get wages down and then get inflation down without having to slow the economy and have a recession and have unemployment rise materially. So there’s a path to that.”

These are, simply put, public declaration of class warfare!

I’m sharing these two examples because they are modern and very present. These are not comments/ideas from a long ago past. These are the present ideas/plans that await us.

Now, I’d like to add two more glaring examples of elite thought to underscore my argument:

Check out this Tweet by Jeff Bezos on February 26, 2025:

I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:

I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.

We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.

I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.

I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction.

I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void.

Jeff

Bezos’s message is nuanced, but right out of Orwell’s 1984. There’s nothing surprising about his statement. Of course the billionaire class is going to want to control the means of communications! Why wouldn’t they want to? Control the thoughts and ideas of masses, sign me up for that!

Interestingly enough, Orwell actually wrote an essay on The Freedom of the Press as part of his introduction to Animal Farm. That essay is required reading! Orwell ends his essay like this:

I know that the English intelligentsia have plenty of reason for their timidity and dishonesty, indeed I know by heart the arguments by which they justify themselves. But at least let us have no more nonsense about defending liberty against Fascism. If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. The common people still vaguely subscribe to that doctrine and act on it.

To rule through violence is costly and very risky. But to rule through propaganda is efficient and produces better results. Rulers who have traditionally resorted to violence to control their populations have always been envious of how we do things in the West.

Let’s now turn to the man of the hour: Elon Musk

In March 2025, just a few weeks after his Sieg Heil, Musk made the following statement:

“I think logically we should privatize anything that can reasonably be privatized,” Musk said at a Morgan Stanley conference. “I think we should privatize the Post Office and Amtrak for example… We should privatize everything we possibly can.“

Please read This is Elon Musk! to get a better sense of how he thinks.

Next is the U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Bessent made the following comments on July 31, 2025 during a forum organized by the right-wing news outlet Breitbart in Washington DC:

“I’m not sure when the distribution level date should be, whether — should it be 30, and you can buy a house? Should it be 60? But in a way, it is a backdoor for privatizing Social Security, like, Social Security is a defined benefit plan paid out that – to the extent that if all of a sudden these accounts grow, and you have in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for your retirement – then that’s a game changer too.”

Are you starting to see a pattern? Do you see how the ruling elite think? Specifically, how open they are about their plans?

We are at: “get wages down“

and “We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.”

and “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”

and “We should privatize everything we possibly can” to include “privatizing Social Security“

I don’t know how all this ends, but these ideas by elite class remind of a statement towards the end of Orwell’s 1984 where O’Brien gives Winston a picture of the future:

“imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever!“

Thanks for reading,