Reply #35: A New World--"The Corporate Way"; the Only Way

[Hidden Stillness]

This is a very well-written original post, (and is not an excerpt from the book), very wide-ranging, but it is a sign of all that is wrong nowadays, that the message does not even cover all that they are doing and all that they have destroyed, now that we have reached the latter days of this disaster. Now that the horrible process is so well along, we really get a sense of the scope of the thing, and how it is now affecting everything. You hardly know where to begin.

Representative Louise Slaughter of New York just gave another really great speech on the floor of the House this morning, carried on C-SPAN, on all the harmful measures being passed by the Republican Congress, not addressing any problems in the country, increasing the deficit and the debt, and that no matter what the pressing need in the country is, that Republicans' answer is, cut taxes for rich people and corporations. She used a phrase early on, that I thought summed up the complete corporate Republican approach to "governing": everything they do now is designed to "entrench (their) privilege," to consolidate what changes they have made to law, to keep the non-rich victims of this power grab from being able to respond anymore, and to convert all legislative actions to commercial interests. This explains why legislators on the Federal level never respond to the people's concerns anymore, and explains why they pass, over and over again, laws that are so nonsensical and so damaging to the operations of government and to funding any of it. Above all, it explains why they do nothing other than deregulate, and cut taxes to rich people and corporations. Their only aim now is to protect themselves, their class.

This process has been going on for a long time now--remember how that bastard Reagan used to gut the power of a Federal Department, after failing to kill its budget, by putting some incompetant ideologue like Clarence Thomas in charge of it, so nothing would ever get done--but now that they have actually accomplished so much of what they wanted and we are getting completely cut out, people are now realizing why having a corporate approach to life is a life-and-death threat to all of us.

First, corporations had to make money or they were out of business, but the employees who had not caused this would get workers' compensation to help them as they searched for a new job; a large percentage of jobs were unionized. Then, during the Reagan era, they started actively busting unions, rewarding corporations for moving overseas, and started a whole new approach to "free" market capitalism where they made it profitable for corporations to lose money and/or declare corporate bankruptcy, as they would now get it all back by declaring the loss. This made destroying the economy and being incompetant profitable for the rich investor class, who could now not possibly suffer any risk--a bizzare change. Meanwhile, government bailouts to aid failing businesses now went completely to management, and not to help employees anymore (that would be "welfare"). Raising the minimum wage was now "socialistic" and "undeserved," whereas executive pay now being hundreds, even thousands of times higher than the pay of employees was no longer called greed--by their media. Unemployment figures were starting not to be released, but something called "productivity"--which was apparently never good enough--now was. Republicans tried to abolish the Department of Education, the Commerce Dept. (which monitors corporations, keeping statistics and prosecuting corporate crime), and the Internal Revenue Service. They also cut back severely on catching corporate tax cheats, costing the governemnt billions. The Fairness Doctrine was killed, all mergers approved with no concerns for society anymore, and we were silenced.

By the time of the current era, there is actually no longer a government or political system anymore, only fundraising, corporate lobbyists (doubled since 2000), and lobbyists now writing the law itself. There is only the global corporate world, and its offshoots and holdings, such as "government." No law is even considered in Congress anymore that does not pay back a Republican contributor with a now-legislated unfair advantage. Anything else is "frivolous." The media is now totally a corporate mouthpiece, and does not even extend into the real world or our country anymore. Nothing gets out over the air unless it advances the corporate propaganda; everything is told from the corporation's perspective and there is no opposing response to it. Their lives are devoted to research to manipulate us--getting kids to be greedy and bother their parents to buy them everything; getting women to feel ugly and hated, so they will buy products; getting people to believe Republicans are doing a great job, so we will all be eternally docile--yet they will not spend a dime on research studying the harmful effects to society of their commercialization of every value that was once cultural and human. Every second of every day that they are annoying you with brain-rotting trivial content, vulgar close-ups and quick cuts, flipping the camera around, and not letting you look where you want, but instead presenting everything up-close as if it were a product--remember, it is all deliberate, and it is all done to censor something else that is going on in the WORLD, which they still do not own as a "market," but which they want you to feel they do, so you will give up and quit.

This does not even begin to cover it, of course, but Democrats would do well to finally tie these things together so we can all fix on the pattern of total devastation by this small group--traitors--and realize how these things they do all fit together and how one thing led to another. All of these things are happening because of the now overwhelming influence of corporations. It can only be understood as a whole, as you realize what the corporate/oligarchical traitors were getting at. They still aren't finished.