With the economy on the edge of a catastrophic collapse on a scale never seen before, with a national debt over 13 trillion, with corporations outsourcing jobs overseas, and selling us predominantly foreign made products, are the corporatists preparing for a civil war that they created?
I believe they are preparing, and is the reasoning behind the big propaganda effort recently to place blame on the liberals and Obama. The corporatists are smart enough to know history, and historically the poor class always rises up against the rich class during times of economic chaos. There is going to be a very large poor class once the economic collapse takes place. They are going to be angry and the corporatists want to make sure that anger is directed towards the liberals.
I believe the corporatists have hijacked the Republican Party and are using it as a vehicle to intentionally deceive and manipulate the masses into falsely associating the economic collapse on Obama and the liberals. It's all in preparation for the possible upcoming civil war. They are attempting to shield themselves from blame and thus deceive the public into pointing the finger at Obama and the liberals.
Outsourcing jobs and selling us predominantly foreign made products is highly unpatriotic and borderline treason commited by the Republican corporations. It is not Obama or the liberals to be blamed for the upcoming economic collapse. It is sad to see so many millions of patriotic Americans tricked and deceived by these corporatists.
Very sad indeed.
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Do you really think the Patriot Act was enacted to deal with a few men living in caves thousands of miles away?
It's a near carbon copy of Germany's Enabling Act,,,which allowed Hitler to "temporarily" seize full power.
The economic ideology we've operated under for the past 30 years was for mass consumption, The ultimate results coming to a head have been known by the Fathers of Economics for over a century...and some made out very, very well. creativly destroying the U.S economy with outsourcing, tax policy and finance..
The expected results are in the memo sent to Citicorp's top clientele. Blowback. Not much different than Argentina's when they implimented the same policies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6_i8zuffs
The Patriot Act is an insurance policy. .Note both parties voted for it.
Retired Monk - "Ideology is a disease".
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Yup, nothing new: divide and conquer. I also see them very successful in creating a divide among the Tea Partiers and Liberals with this Beck rally last weekend. Since, it has been quite a ramping up of animosity on both sides. We need to encourage the Tea Party people to look at the corporatists as being the problem not government. But they seem to just feed back replies like "you're promoting class warfare" and "the rich create jobs." So I don't know what we can do about that ignorance.
“There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” - Warren Buffett
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26every.html?_r=2
Of course, Americans get that we are a classless society...just one big economic melting pot with no opposing interests.. The ubber rich know better.
Retired Monk - "Ideology is a disease"
Yeah, it's quite scary. The citizens who own most of the guns are under the propaganda spell of these corporatists right now. I hope they are smart enough to snap out of it and realize they are being tricked.
If and when a civil war takes place, the super wealthy will watch the war from a safe distance as they flee American soil to another country. If they win the war they will then return. Right now, they are merely brainwashing as many people as they can in preparation for the economic collapse. They know that they must place the blame on Obama and the liberals, and they are working vigorously to do just that. They know that time is running short, as the economy is a ticking time bomb.
The US has been consuming more than 3 times its share of resources for some time. It would be something different if the leaders of the country would just say "we can't continue this way and need to live within our means" and then enact transparent unobtrusive programs to help bring the country into line. But they didn't do this and so are going to be brutal about it.
The attitude I find increasingly with people in economic trouble is to just say "screw it" and salute with our middle fingers to see where it goes. I do think the corporatists are trying to goad us into a civil war. Once divided they can use all kinds of rules and laws to coral us in. But then I expect people will salute those efforts too with a middle finger and tell them "those are just a bunch of scribblings on paper (i.e. the Patriot Act)."
All this is about is the planet reaching an unsustainable population point and the establishment trying to keep control. I hope they fail.
In my opinion, this is not about Right vs Left anymore, not about Conservatives vs Liberals. It's a new phenomenon because never before in the history of man have corporations been this powerful and influential. We're in a new age which most people have not recognized yet. The corporatists are taking full advantage of it too. They are masking themselves behind the idea of conservatism and have taken hostage the Republican Party to impose their will.
This is a new era for humankind. It's the corporations vs the people. It's a tragedy that so many good people have been deceived into siding with the corporations, a complete tragedy.
Chris Hedges has a take on it. "We've experienced a slow-moving coup d'état ." It's now a fait accompli.
Retired Monk - "Ideology is a disease"
If you think about it, no other element has done more to undermine and jeopardize our democracy than that of corporations.
Who is the enforcer of the unwritten laws of political correctness? The corporations are when they fire someone because of words which were spoken. They've destroyed the 1st amendment right there.
Who entices illegal immigration? The corporations do when they knowingly hire illegal immigrants for mass cheap labor.
Who offers military technology to other countries, including to our enemies? The corporations do.
Who corrupts our political process by bribing (lobbying) politicians to serve their best interest? The corporations do.
Who corrupts our political process by financing candidates in political campaigns? The corporations do.
Who finances propaganda to serve the best interest of the corporations? The corporations do, of course. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are corporate propagandists.
Who bribes and corrupts our FDA so that they may continue to put carcinogenic ingredients into our food supply? The corporations do.
The list goes on and on....The founding fathers were smart, but they lacked the foresight to envision how powerful corporations would become. We're in big trouble.
I think the preparation includes the company formerly known as Blackwater, now fronted by the symbol for the noble gas xenon Xe. Yet another clever move by the fascists: get the public to pay for the private forces that will defend the rich when true memes of power escape, take hold and the rich fall under siege.
Certainly it includes the Tea Party (TPers) from their corporate sponsored busses and preprinted signs to the exaggerated news coverage. The TPers are a skillful creation that continues the decades long swing to the right in American politics. They will either win the war by establishing the fascist doublespeak (Liberals are the Fascists; the War is for Peace; Tax Cuts [for the rich] Will Set You Free) or, at the very least, the TPers will provide cover for the Republicans to claim they are centrists. The original TPers got naked in a Boston winter and destroyed the property of the world's largest corporation - the current TPers act like the corps(es) don't control the economy and the government.
Corporations used to expire and were required to fulfill the general welfare clause. Lincoln warned about consolidation of economic power in his first state of the union speech. It was Lincoln's second reason for fighting the Civil War: the South's feudalism was repellent over and above the slavery it thrived on. Eisenhower warned us too.
Now, the neo-liberal imperialists have brought their corporate control model to fruition here, looking to home since Nicaragua, since the Reagan era. South America is not wide open to them any more - instead it is beginning to form a common currency. Europe is full with corporations and wise to their ways. With every company bought out, broken up and offshored out from under US they have downsized America.
A handful of corporations control almost all of agriculture, oil, transportation, banking, transportation, military contracts, media, you name it. It sounds and is pretty ghastly... but it contains its own remedy. The rich really are relatively few and there are not that many employees left in all those companies and even fewer peeple in control. We The People are far more numerous than the blinkless control freaks.
Appropriate constitutional remedies may be sought by the people against multi-national mega-corporations under both the general welfare and the common defense clause. Thom is correct - we need to get out, get active, speak out, vote and work to protect the vote - democracy is the only way to fight and win the dirty war of division the right has been waging for decades.
I wonder if these TPers are aware that Hitler and his "socialist" movement got most of his financial support from the corporations there in Germany.
I wonder if they are aware it was corporate support that supported the fascist coup attempt against FDR in 1936. It failed...and gave rise to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
This time around, they've used the democratic process to capture the democratic process.
Wolin, "Democracy, Inc. - the Spector of Inverted Totalitarianism" - Princeton Univ. Press. The "illusion of democracy"....without it.
Retired Monk - "Ideology is a disease"
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I do not see any move on the horizon to reorganize corporations. The only change in the offing is with the emergence and future growth of alternative or so-called green energy type of industries. Perhaps the convergence of enviornmentalism with newer technologies will result in some kind of structural and organizational changes.
The only possiblity would be alternative business models. To make any significant difference, these alternatives would have to start impacting the political system and the thinking of those in education, including higher education, the media, and individual citizens, as well as the political candidates themselves.
I have to wonder if the supposedly random incidents of mutliple public shootings are more than just cases of the mental breakdown of certain individuals. Mentally ill people statistically are much less likely to commit a violent crime than are members of the publi-at-large. The aggressive nature of coroporations, the abusive speech of right-wing broadcasters (called Toxic Talk by author and talk-show host Bill Press), the increasingly inhumane policies of conservatives, the ever-worsening problems of violence and crime among inner-city residents and gang members, all of it adds up to an antagonistic society. Thom seems like the kind of level-headed person who could ask, "What is going on here? What are we doing? Where are we headed?"
I am concerned about the rise of the coming religious war pitting christian vs christian. In the mid east they pit muslim vs muslim. Here it will be between christians. Can we stop it? Many times they argure religion when the real issue isn't religion - take the real estate on NY city. It's more about real estate than muslim faith - but what do they headline? religion --- it stirs deep emotions and causes more war war war