Reply #53: Corporate Fascism, illegitimate government outside the Constitution, from 12/12/2000 on-it's all ONE [View All]

[kenny blankenship]

It's all one thing--Permawar and all the various instances of Police State activity as well as the corruption of the Judiciary and imposition of One Party Government were all contained in that coup d'etat as an oaktree is contained in an acorn.

It all stems from one class so swollen with power that it decides it no longer needs to respect the outcomes and lawful processes of democracy. The attitude and appetite that rolled Congress into an illegal war for control over M.E. oil is the SAME attitude and appetite that alters laws, puts the fix in for treaties, and squashes protest over shipping industry and jobs overseas. It's also the SAME PEOPLE: corporations and the elite class which runs and owns them, and which, not coincidentally, owns the mass media and funds our political process.

Except as cannon fodder and debt-slaves, they don't NEED YOU anymore.
Why then would they respect your democracy or your "Constitutional protected" civil rights?

Bush is a symptom, corporate armies are a symptom, contempt for our democracy and its fundamental charter are a symptom--of the same underlying disease, and Bush is not the lone carrier of this disease. I have to tell you there are hundreds of thousands of highly influential people in this country who do not give one flying fuck about the Constitution, democracy, universal franchise, and individual civil liberties, at least as any of those apply to ordinary people. They care about property rights of their corporate enterprise enforced at the end of an M-16, period. They would be more than happy for all those traditional concepts to be replaced with a dictatorship of shareholders--a Board of Directors elected only by corporate managers and players like themselves. Many of them wouldn't even care if the replacement government was no longer called the United States of America, since they themselves no longer see belonging to the US as central to their own identity. Increasingly they make their dough outside the U.S. Belonging to their corporation, which might move anywhere on the globe according to tax incentives and land and labor costs means more to them than being an American. Many people at DU talk about taking back your country. What you seek to reclaim may not even exist anymore and certainly won't if the corporate elite continue to have their way.