Don’t confuse how you think it works, what people say how it works and how it actually works.

Funnily enough, there is a harry potter fanfic “…and the methods of rationality” that put it very succinctly:

1. observe that you are confused by a situation
2. detail what the confusing contradiction is, exactly
3. observe precisely what is happening and adjust your world view.

I don’t understand the government coverup.

In corporate (or democratic) America, everyone is expendable at anytime.

The coverup protects people, but if everyone is expendable at any time, they would not need to do that.

If they are doing it anyway, to protect people, that must mean those people aren’t expendable.

If people in corporate or democratic systems are replaceable and these people aren’t replaceable, the actual system at work can’t be corporate or democratic.

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Put differently, even if Trump is a figurehead and replaceable, the structure behind him ultimately isn’t. It’s very specific people in very specific positions of power and wealth, who want to increase their power and wealth. Having one of them replaced (forced to give up power or wealth or both), is the opposite of what they want to achieve.