So we think we've done away with feudalism, dynastic monarchies, etc. Nah... they just wear costumes.

Hopefully most people are familiar with Feudalism and how Lords and Ladies had their subjects. They would fight among with other Lords for property, and over sleights and other often seemingly petty things. This lead into eventual consolidation of power so we then had large territorial monarchs, who had their vassals below them such as their barons, dukes, earls, and whatever other names might be given to them. Jarls, Heptman, etc. Everyone without a title was known as a serf, a peasant, a peon, an indentured servant, or perhaps a slave.

In some cases a monarch would become powerful and might not totally eliminate another nation. They would force them into a new EMPIRE as a vassal nation. This now was an Imperial Monarchy. Within the Empires and Monarchies there were still supposedly machinations at the lower levels between the lesser lords and ladies, and they still could impact what was occurring.

At one point in history we mostly seemed to get rid of dynasties. Those hereditary rule whereby the ultimate rulers were chosen due to being the offspring or hereditary descendants of a previous monarch. We didn't judge them based upon their ability to effectively lead, that was a lesser concern. The most important concern was often how close in lineage the person was to the previous ruler.

We like to imagine this is gone in the world of Democracies, and Republics...

I don't believe that it is. It is simply wearing an elaborate disguise that keeps us blinded to the truth.

In a republic where you elect representatives and those representatives actually ANSWER to the people that elect them you might have something not like a monarchy. However, the period for which that remains true seems to be limited and over time as with any government (regardless of the type so far) is infected by cronyism. Cronyism can occur whether capitalism, socialism, communism, Republic, Democracy, Monarchy, etc is the style. All Cronyism need do is trade in favors, or power. This can be in the form of money, but that is not the only form that power takes.

So as the Democracy/Republics are corrupted the shell game becomes electing the representative, and then once in place the representative begins answering to their true masters. Those that control the media, those that have many generations in skill in manipulating the public. Give the public the illusion that they are electing a representative while in reality careful manipulation of sociology, and psychology form what we often call propaganda and the representative is generally pre-chosen. This almost always works. It is very rare it does not.

Then enter the Citizens United bill (it's funny how bills often are the opposite of their name) granted corporations the rights of people. Yet, corporations can end up being hereditary if all of the shares, or most of the shares are held by a family. They can in a sense become a monarchy, or an empire.

Yet Corporations with these rights are something truly insidious. They are far more powerful than historical empires, and monarchies. They can span across multiple nations, they can operate from the shadows, and they are generally the tool of cronyism. They inject cronyism into ANY system that they can, for this gives them the tools to manipulate that system.

Offer favors. Corporations generally are in a position to do that more than virtually any other entity. Their favors cross borders.

Today a new friend on Steemit @thatgermandude stated he likes me and other Americans but he would gladly go to war against us to remove the vassal state trait on Germany that is essentially making them a vassal nation to the U.S.

I told him that the U.S. and Germany are both vassal nations to the same entities, and that is NOT the U.S. The U.S. is but a front, a decoy. It is a face that is manipulated. If there were war between Germany and U.S. the true puppet masters would likely benefit from it as they would do the same thing they historically have done in the past. Fund and interact with ALL SIDES of a war and profit from both sides. This is also ingratiating so as things settle they already have a crony tendril into the next nation/government that will replace it.

Feudalism still exists. The true Lords and Ladies are those that control one or more large corporations, and/or central banks (which are also corporations).

It is not about socialism, capitalism, communism, etc. These entities work fine regardless of those as they've managed via disguise and costume to make us focus on their puppets rather than seeing them for what they are. Us fighting among each other only strengthens their hold and manipulation.

If you wish to end vassalage and you believe war is the answer then you truly should be looking to your true enemy. It is not the American people, the German people, the Syrian people, the Israeli people, etc. Who benefits and continues to exist after regime changes, presidential changes, etc? There are groups of people that ALWAYS manage to be involved regardless of who the supposed rulers are, regardless of political parties, etc.

Some among them have infamously stated "I care not who makes the laws as long as I control the money", and they have had variations on that theme that did not rely upon the concept of money, but simply replaced it with the concept of power.

We see a growing frequency in HIGH CRIMES being exposed. Yet those that perpetrate the crimes seem to for the most part not be getting charged at all. In fact, if you expose a CRIME of someone high enough in the ranks of power it is YOU the person that reported the crime that will be in trouble. There is a growing number of UNTOUCHABLE people and entities that we catch committing crimes, and they shrug and carry on because absolutely nothing is done about it. This is true across international borders, and it is true irrelevant to the government form of nations.

They are having to hide less, because the environment is becoming friendly to them. If they can commit crimes and have nothing come from it, and in many cases actually benefit from committing crimes then why should they stop, and why would they need to hide?

It is even better when all they have to do is point out religion, point out skin color, point out some WORDS someone said, or claim that one nation is vassal to another to distract us.

For when we fight among each other we have less attention that might make us notice THEM. If we are busy pointing at their puppets as the BAD GUY then we generally will ignore the PUPPET MASTERS and they can keep going on doing their thing.

Feudalism is alive and well. It just got really smart, and they've also worked really hard to keep the public dumb, and unaware.

So next time you think of WAR to solve your problems. Consider if you are truly aiming for the puppet master, or are you simply aiming for the puppet they are dangling in your path?