#157 - Neema Parvini - Who Runs the World: The Mechanics of Elite Power
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
The political system appears broken but is functioning exactly as it was designed to - ensuring the ruling class never loses power.
Author and academic Neema Parvini joins the podcast to discuss the mechanics of elite control. We discuss the "Iron Law of Oligarchy" - the reality that all political parties, no matter how radical they start, eventually conform to the establishment . Neema also explains the structural advantages the elites use to maintain their monopoly on power.
We explore why "anti-establishment" figures like Donald Trump and the leaders of Reform UK have ultimately sold out their base, proving that outsiders don't change the system; the system changes the outsiders . From the uniparty's obsession with foreign wars to the generational theft of the national debt.
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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - System Failure 00:02:09 - Iron Law Explained 00:06:21 - Voter Delusion 00:09:49 - Anti-Establishment Energy 00:17:38 - System Changes You 00:21:23 - Who Holds Power 00:24:05 - Can It Be Broken 00:30:13 - Fear Politics Trap 00:39:49 - Benevolent Elites 00:53:34 - Reform Critique 01:28:18 - Trump Betrayal
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| 0:00.0 | I've got a phrase that I like to use called, it's your anger, their agenda. |
| 0:05.0 | Your anger, their agenda. |
| 0:07.0 | So I think some of these people are actively, they know people are angry, |
| 0:12.0 | and people have a right to be angry, but they use that energy, almost like vampires, |
| 0:17.0 | and try to translate it into something that's the polar opposite. You don't change the system, the system changes you. |
| 0:23.6 | That's over time in order to get into power, |
| 0:27.6 | you, in our radical party, needs to moderate so much |
| 0:32.6 | that it ends up just being the system already. |
| 0:36.6 | But with our politicians, what, we're expected to give them a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance. |
| 0:42.3 | I mean, you'd never employ the same person who made the mess to then clean up the mess to anyone who voted for Maga. |
| 0:48.3 | And then, of course, the ultimate portrayal, he literally talked for 10 years plus about not only would he not start |
| 0:57.5 | a forever war, but specifically this one with Iran. He basically said, this is a presidency for |
| 1:04.9 | my donors and not for my voters. The iron law of the oligarchy. Aiming for a 40% regime change is doomed to fail because it leaves the old establishment lives to regroup. He says you have to go for 100%. You have to go for 100% and change the whole thing. I think it has to be the shot. The shot has to be at the moment against the establishment. That's the main thing. |
| 1:28.1 | The urgent thing is to sweep aside and to get in a new set of politicians. |
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| 2:03.1 | Hi, morning. |
| 2:03.9 | Neiman, hey, are you good? |
| 2:05.3 | Good. |
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