Traders should understand political narrative is about keeping you in a state of belief.

Political power is about keeping the electorate in a state of belief. It is not about getting the electorate to a place of individual knowing and understanding.

Individuals who know and understand have overcome fear and confronted the monster of scarcity that is spawned by our psyche. By arguing scarcity, power creates the idea that sources of sustenance are limited and can only be accessed via specific institutions, protocols, and prices sponsored by the State.

Scarcity creates reliance on one or a few State actors for guidance toward limited sources of increasing material need.

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The State does not offer proofs that it is the way, the truth, and the light in the provision of or facilitation toward accessing commodities and other material needs, but offers only arguments intended to generate a belief that it is.

And rather that encouraging reflection on and pursuit toward understanding of self (true individualism), the State diverts the electorate toward rigid schools of thought presented at state-sponsored institutions. This is the primary way that nation-states are maintained.

How does this observation help the trader? The biggest benefit from understanding the State’s process of diversion is the aid understanding the process provides in helping to cut through the noise. Political power is a crowd facing tool that puts non-commodity owning electorate in a constant battle with itself. Political narrative distracts the electorate from the State’s efforts to manage the decline in value of the American political economy as evidenced by the increased concentration of spending power and wealth in fewer hands.

Political power does not know how to grow an economy. It cannot reconcile wealth, a collection of income-generating contracts, with the declining productive capacity of the majority of non-commodity owners. It has no policy for creating a balance between commodity owners and non-commodity owners.

Commodity owners should be concerned about the imbalance because a decline in the production value of the electorate will result, over the intermediate and long-term, in a reduction in yield to their assets.

We are in a state of conflict, a tug-of-war when we should be in a state of ethical symbiosis. A state of ethical symbiosis is where humane treatment and respect exist. This plane reduces conflict, creating a more stable environment for meeting contractual expectations.

If we can reduce anxiety in the individual, we create an environment where she can pursue greater self-awareness. This further results in a more complete person entering trade. A self-aware individual brings stability and increased certainty to an exchange. Would you not be more comfortable in the vetting process engaging a counterparty that sits confidently in her philosophy and is confident enough to share it?

A state of understanding threatens the current state of political power because it potentially limits a primary tactic: division. The philosophy behind current political power would have to adjust from ordering the world based on an algorithm of division to one that optimizes output via individual growth and self-awareness.

Alton Drew

20 April 2025

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