It isn't theoretical that we're being lied to by politicians. There isn't a demographic today of adults compos mentus that believes our governments are comprised of saints, manning the bureaucratic walls to defend to the last drop of their life's blood our freedom and felicity. We are all quite aware that liars run for office, tell us lies during their candidacy, and then their actions in office tell us the truth after we have been either bamboozled to vote for them based on their false rhetoric, or the vote counting bureaucracies just fake up enough ersatz votes to pretend we did.
It doesn't matter which side of which controlled issue you're on. What's funny is a lot of people believe with zealotry that on their specific Issue of Relevance their Chosen Candidate is Telling the Truth. People kill each other over their political fervor for such parties, personnel, and policies. We are built to create powerful societies that can withstand attacks to successfully reproduce, and this is primarily a behavioural evolution. True believers are the wall that defends our children.
Dissent is dysgenic. Fanatical fervor for feckless fuhrers is what furthers our genetic line, instead of ferreting out facts and holding psychopathic overlords in check, because there is a common benefit to our reproductive success and the increase in wealth and power of the particular psychopathic overlord farming our community. When that overlord is able to conquer and control the neighboring farm, or village, or nation, they use their minions - us - to do so, and we are the useful idiots they cultivate and perpetuate.
Rather, that used to be the case, when foot soldiers were necessary to wage war, and human operated devices were the state of the art of mass destruction. Drones and DEWs in a bewildering variety today render actual boots irrelevant in most of the actual killing of enemy forces, and only necessary to the bureaucratic processes requisite to establishing control of conquered properties and peoples. As all of us will note, automated mechanisms increasingly replace humans in every bureaucratic process as well, leaving psychopathic overlords with a burden of populations that used to be necessary to attain to their sybaritic lifestyles, but now not only are obsolete in that regard, but huge detriments to the fullest enjoyment of their properties and wealth.
Were they not saddled with those populations bristling with archaic political power, psychopaths wouldn't need to drill for oil far out to sea, or ship it to distant ports, spend $B's to refine it, and burn billions of tons of it creating toxic exhaust and pollution, with all the risks of leaks and environmental harm along every step of that process, and the same is true of every industry without exception. Now that automated means of production of all the wondrous miracles of technological advance a sybarite could enjoy are potential, expensive craftsmen and tedious handwork are no longer necessary to create military might, sublime menus and feasts, palatial abodes, thrilling travels and explorations, or any entertainment or necessity even the most jaded Pasha might require, except of course for their bedrooms.
For such delights, robotic substitutes will never suffice, until reproduction is entirely possible from start to finish with artificial means, and that yet neglects psychological aspects of the process.
While most of us are yet to realize that such automation of production is today available to us personally, and not just our overlords, and have not grasped how that frees us from servitude - or even that we are serving psychopathic overlords by working for corporations and buying products made by corporations - we have been made aware of the burden our numbers are on the ecosystems of the world, which hit our masters right in the wallet, and a Malthusian current runs deep in most politics presently.
James Corbett lays out very well in his latest report, titled "Don't Worry! The Border Problem is About to be Solved!", how our overlords use controlled opposition to enable the politicians to create the system of herd management, the chutes and ladders we will be confined to in order we be corralled securely, before the abattoirs are fired up and our vast herds are appropriately culled. Controlled Actor A rants about protecting us from invading forces, and implements dual use infrastructure potential to keeping our Elysian Fields for our exclusive benefit, and then Controlled Actor B utterly sabotages those mechanisms and fully afflicts us with the hazards and ills hordes of invading foreigners bring with them, keeping at all times the awareness that the infrastructure of population control is applicable to we ourselves more or less covert, both sides of the controlled opposition herd us to clamor for implementation of that infrastructure of population control, dangling the fantasy it is for our benefit rather than theirs, in front of our bred to zealously serve eyes.
Every control we are convinced to clamor for securing our borders will be applied within our borders, to us. Every wall has two sides. Whether you're convinced we need to eliminate illegal immigration, or are convinced hapless people driven to come to our Elysium have every right to a life of freedom and felicity, you are entrained into the narrative that psychopathic overlords are employing to create horrific corrals that will be used to eliminate populations that are excessive drains on their wealth, and you are the carbon they want to reduce.
All of the political contests, media blitzes, and news of the day are psychological warfare against everyone that isn't an overlord - and only if you are one do you not wonder who is one. The actual field of battle on which our survival can be won is possession of automated means of production competent to secure to us and our posterity the blessings of civilization, which include the ability to go where we wish and enjoy such wonders as exist.
If you cannot travel freely at your whim, you are part of the herd that will be corralled.