Corporatism Takes Over Democracy

The measure of a man or a woman is their ability to stand up for what they believe no matter the situation. This can be painful and heartbreaking as people that you once saw as friends turn on you. They pretended to believe as you did, but their beliefs are as phony and flat as the characters in a movie.

In this day and age why does it seem to be so difficult for men and women to stand up to the mob and say, “The King has no clothes”? It is ironies of ironies that public officials are more worried about pleasing those in the business world even if it means taking the entire country down. They are too small minded and swayed by Super-PAC money to look at the big picture and see what is needed in the long run for the country as a whole.

At one time, the battle was states’ rights versus federal rights. I am sorry to say that this is no longer the case. These Representative and Senators hold corporate interests above the interest of people that voted them into office. They are taking marching orders from secret business donors and special interests that are in no way aligned with the country’s needs.

This is corporatism at its worst. As a country, we can thank the Supreme Court for opening up the flood gates for this type of industry influence that pits the few against the many. There is no end in sight for the kind of change that these hundreds of millions of dollars bring.

It takes a strong person to stand up the type of pressure that this kind of money brings. There seems to be a moral relativism that has overcome the House of Representatives and the Senate. Everything is relative to the amount of money being deposited to one’s reelection campaign. These are men and women who are ruled by money and not their conscience.

The question to me is, “At what point do their morals and values kick in, and they see the errors of their ways.”  That idea sounds like a bad morality play told by Hollywood in the 40’s as the country was glossing over racism and sexism that has plagued us for over 400 years. I do not hold much hope that there will be significant changes in how the federal government operates anytime soon.

Where does that leave the country? It leaves us caught in a quagmire of greed and self-interest that wants to punish the weakest in our society. These corporatists are trying to reverse a hundred years of gains made by the working and middle class, so that they are able to replenish their coffer at 19^th and early 20^th century levels.

It must be fantastic to be able to say that you make 100 times more money than the average worker in your company. Why stop there when you are capable of having a politician or two in your pocket through your Super-PAC. That seems to be where we are going as a country. If this isn’t a rehash of the good old days, I don’t know what it is.

Maybe, we should rekindle the idea that racism and sexism aren’t so bad? The waving of the Confederate Flag in front of the White House may be a sign that the country needs to reverse all the gains that women, minorities and gays have experienced in the late 20^th and early 21^st Centuries. Why should those people be seen as equal?

White males have taken so many hits over the past 40 years that it is time to reverse their fortunes. Women need to be seen and not heard. Gays need to get back in the closet and brown people need to move to the back of the bus.

If corporatists had their way, this is where the country would be headed. They would allow a few exceptions as long as those men and women towed the company line. I am not sure what the company line is or might be, but I know that it will be detrimental to the country as these billionaires gain more power and influence in our federal government. It is time to take action against such blatant anti-democracy. Vote against candidates that represent these morals and values.