I will buy that for a dollar ! .. or at least part of it
It is true that the beast works through the hand of man .. and in some part is present in the man who welds the Pen ... such that certain dogma "trinity" can be described as being influenced by the hand of the Devil .. but also certain parts of the Bible .. which only the wise can distinguish from that of the "The Father" of Jesus.
but, the Beast itself is not person ... .. the Beast is the natural outcropping of self interest and greed .. we see this at work in Congress .. which is a pay to play system .. and as such - you get what you pay for
Sure you have lone voices calling out "Drug price fixing" from time to time .. everyone turns to that voice points - LOOK LOOK -- Freedom of Speech .. what a great system we have .. That lone voice is then quicky drowned out by the cacophony on the take .. Democracy rules on Congress .... in this case "Tyranny of the Majority" .. that which our system was set up to avoid .. but the Beast has won .. near every person in congress votes on the basis of the wishes of the Donor(s) lining their pockets..
and who are we to Judge .. prior to taking log out of own eye .. Would you be the one to shoot the golden egg laying Goose ? -- Would you be the one to run against a herd of Stampeding Bulls ?? -- expecially knowing what happens to those folks .. "Phil Donahue - Bill Maher" and others .. it is generally not pretty unless you comply ... kind of like the Borg collective mind "you will be assimilated"
The Beast - in terms of political system -- is an Oligopoly Bureaucracy Fusion Monster --- In both extremes .. Socialism and Capitalism.. you end up with a small group of people controling most/all wealth and resources and means of production. Our system has combined the worst elements of both extremes into a really ugly monster.
The Donor Class "aka - Golden Goose" runs this show - as said before --- you get what you pay for .. and this is a pay to play system .. If you play .. along with the Donor Class --- you get paid .. and everybody knows it. Not like this is some big secret in Washington .. did you not get the memo ? .. of course you are aware .. hmmmm
What is not a big secret either is that there are many different donors .. and sometimes their interests conflict .. but the question for you .. in your search for the Beast - is to tell me who is "top of the food chain" so to speak among the Donor Class .. and on that note I rest my case.