they have all the money, they don't have all the power yet.  as long as the human spirit remains defiant and unbroken they don't have all the power and they won't be satisfied until they have all of it.  they will fail because a small but sizable part of the human race would rather die than submit to unjust rule. so the elite have a choice to make- do they kill off the spirit that makes us human, or do they compromise. i think they'll use their shiny calculating power and conclude that it would be more profitable to cooperate than to engage in a final battle which end either in their destruction or everything dying.  the one thing that both the very old-money bloodline psychos and the schizos both understand, and have always understood is: this world is not the real world. it's something like a surface level reality, a game board, a world-within-a-world.  the bad guys control this one but they don't control the bigger one, because that belongs to god.  (so does this one, in the long run, but for the current iteration, it belongs to the bad guys' god, which they lie and say is the real god, which is a lie).  this is the story that's in all the old myths about the war between the gods, the rebellious angels and fall of atlantis and so forth. the story of the flood.  so, right now they are backed into a corner. they can make a play for total control of this false, material world, by trying to get rid of the last of spirit, and rendering it totally managed.  or they can declare a truce, and either come to terms or wave the white flag and rejoin the greater community. which would seem like declaring defeat, but would actually be a victory for all concerned.  we're at a crossroads. we are very lucky, i think, to have been born at the exact time to see this exact confluence of currents in time and space, to see a very significant crossroads in the history of our planet so far.  personally, i'm an optimist. i think it'll turn out for the better.
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