What is the Swamp?

A Civilizational Disease and a Fifth Column

Why write a post about the Swamp?  It’s a much talked about murky concept.  I hope to bring more clarity to it.  As a result of the covid global coup d’état, the world is waking up.  A growing proportion of the public has lost trust in government, media and especially in the medical establishment.  Thousands of freedom groups rose around the world, each trying to address a symptom of a perceived civilizational disease.  A clearer set of ideas around the Swamp wouldn’t hurt bringing more focus and cohesion to freedom groups.

The Swamp refers to the real corruption, bureaucracy, and entrenched interests affecting all levels of government from inside and outside.  It’s the inner workings of government agencies, the influence of lobbyists, transnational organizations, bureaucrats, and special interest groups acting against public good.  The Swamp is a civilizational cancer-like plague, and the freedom movements are humanity’s auto-immune response.

It's important to note that the term "the Swamp" is subjective, and people with different political viewpoints may have varying opinions on what it is, what it represents, what’s in it, what it pursues and what are its intentions.  This post intends to bring more objectivity or a basis of agreement to the concept of the Swamp so that more people can wake up to its reality and see it for what it is and act accordingly: resurrecting civic engagement and non-compliance with non-sense.

Who/What’s part of the Swamp?

Regardless of where one stands on the left-center-right political spectrum, it’s easy to agree that the following categories are problematic:

• Special Interest Groups including those from sectors like healthcare, finance, banking, media, and technology, are often perceived as contributing to the Swamp when they use their influence to shape government decisions.

• Lobbyists: Lobbyists and lobbying organizations that represent various special interest groups and corporations are often seen as key players in the Swamp, as they work to influence government policies.

• Large Non-Profit Organizations: Unions and international charities that are using their members dues and donations for purposes falling outside their core mandate.

• Career Politicians: Many people view long-serving career politicians, particularly those who have spent several election cycles, as part of the Swamp.

• Bureaucrats: Government bureaucrats, especially those in high-ranking and influential positions, are sometimes included in the Swamp.

• Transnational entities like the UN/WHO, WEF, private foundations, billionaires’ industry oligarchs,

• Former Government Officials in the Private Sector: The "revolving door" phenomenon, where individuals move between government positions and private-sector jobs, can be seen as part of the Swamp when it creates conflicts of interest.

• Campaign Donors: Wealthy campaign donors who contribute substantial sums to political campaigns are sometimes associated with the Swamp, as their contributions can influence politicians' decisions.

What Does the Swamp Pursues?

The Swamp pursues its own self-preservation.  The intention of the individuals and entities constituting the Swamp is to:

• perpetuate status quos,

• maintain and increase their own power and influence,

• protect their personal or special interests at the expense of the broader population and public interest. 

With self-preservation comes partisanship where biased and emotional ideologies (Climate change, ESG investing, identity politics, covidianism, etc.) take precedence over the interests of citizens.  This involves prioritizing political party's goals and politician’s own re-election over the needs of the public.  This results in gridlock, inefficiency, and lack of cooperation. 

The Swamp thrives on and purses a lack of transparency by operating in a secretive and opaque manner, making unchecked decisions, and taking actions that are not in the best interest of the public but rather to benefit those within it.  A strategic goal of the Swamp is to impede public scrutiny.   This explains why the Swamp is the perfect vehicle for subversive communist infiltration.  The Swamp will play with timetables, setting capricious or impossible conditions, abuse administrative rules with exceptions and exemptions, etc.

The Swamp pursues an ever increasing and complex bureaucracy at the expense of lean and efficient operations: the anti-thesis of efficient capitalism, also known as communism.  Swamp creatures are primarily interested in protecting their own positions, job security and the system that benefits them.  This creates opportunities for inefficiency, waste, lack of accountability, and white-collar crimes.

Closing Words

The general presumption that governments are, in aggregate, acting for the well-being of their populations is losing ground in the public.  The realization that Swamp-diseased governments, just like individuals, can act with malice is the real new normal.  It’s the enemy within, a fifth column.

Once we have an outline of what the Swamp is, how it operates, and what it wants.  We can start talking about solutions, in particular: setting up traps, hunting it down, erode its support mechanisms, etc.  The Swamp is a multidimensional cancer of humanity, it’s THE civilizational disease.  A clearer idea of what the Swamp is, what it wants and how it operates can give guidance to the remaining sane part of government to repeal harmful legislations and rollback detrimental regulations.

Through its effects, you can see the Swamp for what it is.  Look at what and who opposes it: people, organizations, popular movements, etc.  They’re the white hats and there’s a lot of them.