Season 3 Podcast 130, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rule # 9, Be a Great Feigner and Dissembler

The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rule #09, Be a great feigner and dissembler.In earlier podcasts I presented 40 of the rules given by Nicolo Machiavelli in his book “The Prince,” written in 1513, on how to gain power and how to hold power. The rules were not numbered by the author.  I extracted them from The Little Book for conveniences in applying them to American politics. The rules assume that there is no conscience and no accountability to a higher power. There is only the present. The rules are ruthless and do not account for human suffering.  In this, and future podcasts, I shall examine the rules individually as they apply to American Politics today. In this podcast I examine rule # 9“But it is necessary to be able to disguise this character well, and to be a great feigner and dissembler; and men are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.” (Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince)Machiavelli taught that people were simple and easily deceived if their immediate necessities are met. You may rob their future if you ease their present.   Deceive, dissemble, evade, pretend, prevaricate, mislead, defraud, betray, hoodwink or dupe but ease their urgent necessities.That is exactly what the left is doing today to gain votesMachiavellian Pragmatism works only because it relies upon the weaknesses of human nature.  The statement above is true.  Machiavelli is describing what real tyrants have done to gain power and to hold power, and he identifies the weaknesses of man that allow them to control others.  That again is the practicing philosophy of the left. They rely upon the weaknesses of voters, not their strengths or their capabilities or their potential.  That is why liberals are crisis oriented.  Not only does the left consider voters to be “vulgar,” they also consider voters to be “simple,” interested only in the “present necessities.”When those seeking power collude with those seeking entitlements, then the demise of democracy is not far behind. Conditions today are ripe for socialism to replace what the liberals consider the rotten fruits of decayed capitalism.  I fear we will take the same course as Europe.  It is to the liberal’s interest to increase the welfare rolls.  Those in need are easier to manipulate than those who are self-reliant.  Their biggest enemy is self-reliance. Remember Machiavellian Rule number 37.Rule # 37: “Let him see that he cannot stand alone.” That explains The Affordable Health Care Act. I lost all confidence in the Republican Party because of their lack of leadership in blocking The Affordable Health Care Act.  That was a bigger step toward American socialism (oxymoron) than taken by Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, and Johnson, the leaders of socialism in America.  If it remains, we can say goodbye to our republican form of government. The purpose of the Machiavellian rules is to teach the prince how to gain power and how to hold power.  In our world of constant commotion, the Machiavellian Road to power is the only way.  The alternative is majority rule.  By turning their back on our democratic republic, the liberals have chosen their only alternative—take control of government the fastest, most efficient way they can.