Here’s “politics” in America now: include mega-millions or do not even trouble to appear.
Representational democracy– a.k.a. politics as a service to social and financial issues— has actually passed away. It did not die a natural death. Politics established a cancer really early in life (circa the early 1800s), caused by wealth surpassing popular opinion. This cancer spread gradually however metastasized in the past few decades, infecting every nook and cranny of our society and economy as “democracy” degenerated into an invitation-only auction of elections and political favors.
Politics might have had a battling opportunity but 3 forces betrayed the nation and its citizenry.
1. The Federal Reserve transferred trillions of dollars of unearned wealth into the feeding troughs of the super-wealthy and corporations, significantly increasing the wealth the leading 0.01% had to buy elections and prefers. The Federal Reserve cloaked its treachery with jargon– quantitative easing, stimulus, and so on– and then stabbed the country’s representational democracy in the back.
2. The Supreme Court betrayed the nation’s representative democracy by labeling corporations buying elections and political favors a type of “totally free speech.” (Please do not hurt yourself laughing too hard.) The Supreme Court’s equating wealth purchasing elections and prefers with specific residents’ sacrosanct right of free speech was a knife in the back of the nation and its citizenry.
3. The 2 political parties betrayed their conventional voter bases to kneel at the altar of business/ elite wealth, wealth which bought elections and political favors. The Democrats, conventional champions of the labor force in the 20th century, abandoned workers in favor of serving their business masters, masking their betrayal with fine-sounding expressions.
The Republican Party, generally promoters of Industry (Wall Street, banks, mega-corporations), had actually maintained a narrow but vital interest in trust-busting (restricting monopolies) to protect free enterprise and small company from the predations of monopolies and cartels. Those days are long past; simply as the Democratic Celebration tossed the working class overboard to the sharks, the Republican politician Celebration walked small business off the gangplank right into the ravenous jaws of cartels and globalized, financialized corporate sharks.
To mask their betrayal and treachery, the celebrations have actually pursued a divide-and-conquer diversion video game, pressing half the nation into one-size-fits-all “enemies lists” with labels that have lost all implying other than as means to promote divisiveness and rancor: Liberal and Conservative, socialist and capitalist, etc.
It’s not the citizenry who are “awful,” it’s the celebrations’ corporate-derriere-kissing toadies, lackeys, apparatchiks, purveyors of propaganda, enforcers, apologists, sycophants, grifters and “leaders” who manage to greatly increase their personal wealth while “serving the general public” (heh).
These 3 betrayals of public trust and representational democracy triggered the death of politics as an option to social and economic issues. “Politics” has been removed to its essence: an invitation-only auction of elections and political favors. The rate to enjoy from the rear of the auction is $1 million; to really place a bid, the minimum is $10 million, however the winning quotes are generally much higher.
(Lobbying, project contributions, bogus think-tanks, and philanthro-capitalist foundations are all part of the auction financing.)
Here’s “politics” in America now: include mega-millions or do not even bother to show up. Pick which “opponents list” you wish to be on; there’s not much choice. And don’t forget to put a flower on the tomb of representational democracy.
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