Distrust of statism is critical to self-preservation.  It’s a zero-sum game.  If they have more, you have less.  It’s impossible that you can both have more.  They acquire more money by propaganda.  Propaganda is used to convince you war is good, the boogie monster’s coming for you, and it’s for your own good.  Distrust all those who benefit from your misery.  It’s more than likely they have lied to you.

They might even come off as tremendously concerned with your wellbeing.  They’ll put together farces like you’ll benefit.  This is not different from the USSR’s show trials.  Many people look at this as a way to improve their social status.  It’s a way of extracting more money from you.  In addition, they can catch a large voting base.  They, or their friends, are now in position to win the next popularity contest.

It’s not enough to just issue propaganda.  This must happen at an early age.  Many are biased toward the first information they receive.  Propaganda later in life is child’s play.  The mob has been hearing propaganda forever.  It’s not difficult to get them to repeat this over and over again.  The mob isn’t just complicit, they’re an active participant in their own subjection.  The expansion continues to happen, and the overlords will do anything to keep this.

Be aware of the great deception.  This will be masked in the form of security.  Some of the risks may be real, but many are not.  Statism is always worse than what they claim to protect you from.  The great deception is used as an instrument of propaganda.  Most of the things they claim to protect you from are problems they created in the first place.  How can more statism solve the problem of statism?

It’s a serious error to assume statism has your best interest in mind.  They have their best interest in mind.  It’s always a zero-sum game.  The goal of statism is to have them win and you lose.  There’s no win-win situation in statism.  A win-win situation only exists in capitalism.  That is, people engaging in a voluntary transaction.  Statism is pseudo-scientific nonsense.  It’s only about total domination.

Reference

Hannah Arendt; The Origins of Totalitarianism