What To Understand About Washington, D.C. Politicians & Power Brokers

If you are reading this, wherever you are reading this, by self-association you are in a select group of high information people with a deeper understanding of reality. You have a level of insight and discernment that is above average.  The main point I want to get across today is; the people within the mechanisms of DC and whom you associate as being key allies in the fight against visible corruption; are not as knowledgeable and passionate as you are. In order to change our abusive relationship with the Government, we must accept and then adapt to this reality.

The people in power are not wiser; nor are they more strategic. They do not have special access to information that makes them more capable, or better able to understand issues better than you. It doesn’t matter what position they hold, or what access they have, or what groups, interests, network, or information resources are at their disposal. 

The informational context you assign to them does not exist.  The things you think they know, they don’t.  The very specific information you believe they are aware of, does not exist in their mind. The people in Washington DC, those allies who you think might have the skills to fix issues, have no concept of what material you are aware of.  You are light years ahead of them in the scale of information you understand, and the context.

How They Think

They think they are more aware than you. The surrounding D.C. system reinforces a belief that they hold some level of knowledge that you don’t. So, when they engage with you, they talk down to you, or in a manner of unintentional intellectual condescension because they cannot fathom your level of knowledge.

If you have the opportunity to talk to them, and dig into the weeds, they get a strange look on their face as your knowledge creates fear and destabilizes their view of you. It doesn’t matter who they are, or what title they hold; the same reality applies to all of them, at every level.

If you envision a top apex-level person currently or formerly inside government, that aligns with the principles of freedom and liberty, and has a keen awareness of the issues of our current crisis dynamic, I have likely spoken to them. Those who fit that description and may even be reading this right now, will tell you in a moment of brutal honesty, I am correct.

More important than what you know, is how much more you care about it than they do. The stuff that you know, the stuff that you yearn for them to address and fix, is more important to you than it is to them.

Why am I telling you this? Because we need to change how we communicate with them.  We need to confront their condescension early in our contact.  We need to be deliberate, direct, and honest in our delivery.

When we write to them, articulate detailed arguments. When we talk to them, pull them into the weeds of the issues and force them to see that our grasp of the topic far exceeds their ability to bullshit their way around the issue. Being courteous, respectful, and considerate for their role, does not mean you need to dumb yourself down or consider yourself subservient to their view.

I guarantee you two things. First, that you know the material better than they do. Second, I absolutely guarantee that you care more than they do.  What that latter element says about the challenge is for another discussion, but these key points need to be emphasized.

Love to all, Sundance.