You know, Ron, when you have a system which functions according to money flow...which is what we have...where big money is always the driving force behind major decisions...

Then what would appear to be a "conspiracy" (a rather emotionally loaded word for many people) would just be the inevitable and natural result of self-interest playing itself out on the part of those with the most money. And those people know each other and deal with each other, right? Their kids go to the same schools. They meet across the same tables.

It's like...royalty ran the world for a very long time, right? Was that a conspiracy? Or was it just the way things worked? A poor person might have seen it as a conspiracy.

What is happening now is that our version of royalty (billionaires...and some of them still are royalty) are running the world. They naturally do whatever they think is in their best interests, and they communicate with one another. Is that a conspiracy or is that just the natural working out of the most powerful forces at play in the world?

Seems to me that it's more the people who insist it's not happening who would prefer to see it labeled as a "conspiracy", since so labelling it casts doubt upon it. ;-)