(Chomsky: Run the Regulators)

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⚖️ There Are Supposed to Be Rules…

Laws.
Oversight.
Checks and balances.

We’re told there are watchdogs — systems to hold the powerful accountable, protect consumers, safeguard the public.

But here’s what’s really happening:

The watchdogs don’t have teeth.
Because they were hired by the wolves.

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🧠 Chomsky: “Run the Regulators”

“One of the most effective strategies of power is to take over the institutions that were meant to regulate it.”

So instead of stopping corruption…
the regulators protect it.

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🏛️ How It Works:

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🔁 The Revolving Door

Politicians become lobbyists.
Lobbyists become regulators.
Regulators become corporate board members.

• Former FDA officials sit on the boards of Big Pharma
• Former FCC leaders now work for telecom giants
• Oil executives advise on climate policy
• Goldman Sachs alumni literally help write U.S. economic policy

The fox isn’t guarding the henhouse.
The fox bought the house.

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🛢️ The EPA Was Gutted From Within

• Scientists silenced
• Corporate pollution ignored
• Regulations weakened under every “business-friendly” administration

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💉 The FDA Fast-Tracks Drugs While Ignoring Long-Term Consequences

• Over 75% of FDA drug-review funding now comes from pharmaceutical companies
• That means the companies being regulated are paying the regulators

Let that sink in.

You trust these agencies with your life.
And they’re being funded by the people who profit off your illness.

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🏦 Banking? That Was Bought Long Ago.

• Wall Street crashed the economy in 2008
• Got bailed out with your tax dollars
• No one went to jail
• Then they went right back to writing policy

The system didn’t learn from the crash.
It capitalized on it.

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🧨 The Game Isn’t Broken —

It’s Scripted

The rules are there to keep you obedient.
Not to keep them accountable.

You break the rules?

• Fines
• Foreclosures
• Jail time

They break the rules?

• Bonuses
• Bailouts
• Book deals

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🕯️ The Deepest Deception?

You think these agencies are protecting you.

But they’re protecting the structure.
And that structure was never built for you.

You’re not in a democracy.
You’re in a controlled economic machine disguised as accountability.

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🧠 Ask Yourself:

• Why are the same people who caused disasters being put in charge of fixing them?
• Why does every new “reform” benefit the powerful — while costing you more?
• Why are the regulators so quick to crack down on you — but not on billion-dollar institutions?

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The job of the regulator isn’t to stop the machine.
It’s to make sure it runs — no matter who gets crushed beneath it.

Because if even the rule-makers are owned…
what laws are you really living under?

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