It’s kind of infuriating watching the members of Congress be so indignant that the Architect was not sharing their own peril by being at the Capitol during the unrest, when many of them do a similar thing to the American people by distancing themselves against the dangerous levels of confusion and anger in society they help create with their governance.

When Covid hit, the biggest threat to many of them was that their cocktail parties at expensive DC bars and restaurants were a health risk. While the rest of Americans were struggling with layoffs, reduced orders/demand, the isolation from friends and family, and the dangers of Covid- the biggest challenge for most of Congress was figuring out how to have lunch at exclusive restaurants without the press finding out and exposing them as hypocrites.

When they got a briefing on how bad Covid could be, what was the first thing they did? They adjusted their stock portfolios to profit off of the pandemic, and advised their biggest donors with stock tips. The second thing they did was start putting out dueling press conferences to publicly bicker with each other in front of the media, and drive up the polarization and public fear over Covid. Assistance to the American people took much longer to materialize, and only came after Congress and their rich donors were already in position to profit from the crisis.

Members of Congress don’t have to live on a typical income, they don’t have to pay medical bills, they don’t live among the same neighborhoods as the average American. They don’t experience normal life, they don’t suffer the consequences for their part in creating a dangerous society by the laws they pass and the laws they fail to pass. They’re collectively like a chef that refuses to eat his own cooking, but whose cooking is the only food available to the entire nation.

With such habits of evading responsibility for one’s own actions ingrained in all of the elites, is it really surprising that the Architect didn’t expose himself to the same peril as Congress that he had a hand in creating?