Originally Posted by
Lewbronski
Yes. Smile. Duh.
For those of us who haven’t received the memo, we don’t really live in a “democracy” or a “democratic republic “. We live in a corporatocracy. Laws are made primarily by and for the sake of corporations. Citizens United anyone?
Perhaps for a brief, glittering moment sometime during the 80’s and maybe into the early 00’s, SWA sort of bucked that paradigm and rebelled against the system. Maybe. But, whenever it ended, that moment ended. It’s over. We’re just another corporation playing our part in the corporatocracy. And we have been for at least 10–15 years.
We live in an oligarchy. Most people have not awoken to this fact yet but one day they will.
Our system creates great wealth, but great wealth is and always has been inimical to great freedom. It concentrates power in the hands of the very few at the expense of the many.
The pendulum is constantly swinging. The last time it swung this far off-center was in the late-1920s. Then the banks failed and people realized just how bad things had gotten and they demanded that the pie be divided more evenly and it was. It was a revolution in the truest sense.
The banks will fail again. All of the Depression-Era reforms (Glass-Steagall) which prevented them from doing were done away with under Clinton. All of the ingredients of the 2008 financial collapse are still in place and now there are only five major Wall Street banking houses which means all of that risk has been consolidated. Throw in the fact that everyone's retirement is now sitting in the stock market and you have all the ingredients for a truly seismic collapse.
People slam the far left wing of the Democratic Party just as they slam the far right wing of the GOP but the thing that gets me is just how similar the two sides are. They're both talking about the same things--the empowerment of disenfranchised Americans--but they're coming at it from two different directions and they're divided over issues of race and identity.
When things get bad enough, both sides will come to see that they had a lot more in common than they ever knew. When that moment occurs, watch out.