Every magician knows that in order to perform a magic trick in front of a large crowd, he needs to secretly plant a few of his assistants in the audience to help him with his performance. Also, no pyramid scheme would ever succeed in deceiving innocent members without the assistants whose job is to create the illusion that payday was just around the corner.
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In politics, such assistants are the commentators and the journalists. No politician can keep up a long-term fraudulent scheme without sophisticated helpers to fend off any criticism and distract the public. And it works.
It is incredible to see how prominent commentators and thought leaders volunteer to assist in the deceptive show that Yamina leader Naftali Bennett is putting up, as well as the Left, which is desperate to return to power.
Just look at their promises of a "healing government" and "return to sanity," making the public believe that the change government would be good for them, because the media keeps saying that it will calm things down.
Later in the show, we saw them using the phrase "unity government." How a government with 40 or so left-wing seats and 12 right-wing seats can call itself "unity" is beyond me.
What this government fails to recognize is that 2 million voters are automatically excluded from their "unity" simply because they do not hate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Their votes are disregarded, and punishment is coming.
The performance was later joined by volunteers from the crowd who believe that the kind of government is about to be created that does not distinguish between left-wing and right-wing, that puts all differences aside, and does not intend on dealing with such neglected issues like security, judicial power, the appointment of judges, opposing views on the Biden administration and the Iranian nuclear threat.
The magician's assistants will use the primary tool in their possession โ the comparison to Netanyahu. Let's brace ourselves for arguments like "Well, Netanyahu himself partnered with the Left," and none of them will admit that the prime minister never let extreme leftists or progressives get close to the wheel. The state was led by a strong right-wing leader, not a weak link in the chain who is blackmailed by the Left.
"Bennet's election campaign only promised there would be no fifth round of elections," they say. They are forgetting how vocal the Yamina leader was with his promises to under no circumstances let Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid become prime minister or form a government with Arab Knesset members.
Finally, take a look at show assistant Ben Caspit, the journalist who only a year ago called Bennett a dangerous guy and now describes him as someone who acts like a prime minister.
And these tricksters expect us to applaud them.
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