12-06-2020
I hereby swear on the lives of someone else’s grandchildren that I will discuss principles not personalities. I’d rather not even use names, I’m so bad at remembering them. But personalities must come into play as we peel back the suit, shave the head and observe our feckless leaders in the naked. Not all are feckless, most.
This is a tough one and it is highly unlikely I will get it right. By the way, I don’t claim to be right about everything anyway, but I will always represent facts as honestly as I possibly can. My analysis will be mine alone. You don’t have to agree. The object is to think.
Way back in the 2000s … 2009, 2010, sometime after the real estate bubble when we were printing money … ahhhhhh we’re always printing money but you know the period. Everyone was getting trophies.
I was already calling so and so a socialist and tearing my hair out when I paid my taxes and foaming at the mouth when the City declared garbage cans as unsightly and dangerous. It started dawning on me that the socialism we were rapidly moving toward was simultaneously being accompanied by an oligarchy whose size was increasing far beyond the boundaries of a healthy upper class. No one wanted to hear me use the term ‘socialist’ then. ‘Oligarchy’ sounded archaic to most and so I read stuff and whimpered in silent tears, tormented and alone. This is the plight of a madman.
The upper class, so called enemy of socialists and communists (here I agree with them!) is necessary to provide capital for businesses to use to build and grow the economic infrastructure. We were already on the internet, remember; and technology costs real money to develop and produce. But it was also the great recession.
So we watched these mega corporations get bigger and bigger and one day I said, “We now have a socialistic country in bed with an oligarchy.” I don’t think I understood those words even though I remember saying them. Then I began reading the same thought occasionally until one day I heard in on TV, spoken by some intellectual who they kept in the basement and refused him a comb.
I wish I had dated that.
It doesn’t make sense until you realize how mammoth our country and economy is. We want the government to reasonably regulate our oligarchy, protect we serfs from it, and harness it for progress. That’s why the Progressives hijacked the term ‘progressive’ way back in 1901. Teddy Roosevelt was a Progressive! He broke the monopolies.
There are always lobbyists in Washington bribing our representatives and attempting to influence policy. If we had a LIMITED federal government, this might not be a problem. Throughout the 20th century, these lobbyists made us see that ‘special interest’ groups were everywhere and they all wanted free money or tax considerations. Nevermind that income tax is practically unconstitutional in the first place. That ship has already sailed.
Big business, ie corporate America, has always manipulated people and policy in order to maximize their profits. That’s just what businesses do. They need a profit to continue research and development, expand manufacturing, maintain the organization as a whole. But somewhere along the line, corporate America began to dominate our politics and seemingly take over sectors of our government. President Eisenhower spoke of the Military Industrial Complex in no uncertain terms. If anyone would know about it, it was him. He basically conquered Europe. (must read -> https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp)
Corporate America was now our ruler. Fair enough provided there was still room for the expansion of the middle class. Pause here to emphasize the fact that the middle class has always been the key to our success. Upward mobility defines the American Way. It grows, we get better. It shrinks, we devolve.
So where along the line, did corporate America begin to adopt the socialistic ideology? These are profiteers! Why would they want socialism? It is so unlikely that no one was really paying attention. The thought confuses our brains’ hemispheres. Can you see the electrical connections being re-routed? Could the idea that politics makes strange bedfellows ever be more dramatically portrayed? Even Shakespeare could not contrive such a plot. They have openly denigrated the corporations, all the while welcoming them into their bosom. (rule #1) It wasn’t until the media went totally south of the border that we began to understand. By then, it was too late.
Yet the signs were there. Hindsight is so 20 20 ….. Now there’s a pun for you!
Why did profiteers join forces with socialists and communists in order to force globalism down our throats? These are words, complex ideas. Could I be wrong? Or is it becoming clearer and clearer with every edict from your governor, every mis-truth repeated verbatim, every censored Twitter insight? They have joined forces because the communists are willing to give the magnates special privileges in the ‘ruling class’ – otherwise known as the American Communist Party that of course does not exist.
The takeover is in progress.