America’s Economic Past, Present Economic Darkness and …………. Future Fate

I’ve written incessantly about corporate capitalism over the years. Most of it unpleasant. One of the greatest brainwashings of our time is that a large percentage of our population is indoctrinated into their own subjugation of beliefs rather than science or facts.  This has created our own voluntary enslavement-

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda and brainwashing, and brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

I’m going to be writing of this topic next by tying together more than a dozen years of posts on corporate capitalism into a simple-to-digest summary post.  But, in the interim, for whomever is reading this, I would encourage you to consider the consequences of the following dynamics-

Our nation was founded as an agrarian nation.  From there it morphed into an agrarian and citizen-owned businesses.  From there an agrarian, citizen-owned and corporate businesses. From there a citizen-owned and corporate businesses.  To now, what is a corporate economy. 

So, the timeline is 1) agrarian > 2) agrarian/citizen > 3) agrarian/citizen/corporate > 4) citizen/corporate > 5) corporate.  These are generalities as there are still citizen farmers and citizen-owned businesses but those numbers have continued to collapse over decades and centuries.  As I noted in a few posts of 2020, new business creation in the U.S. has collapsed 90% since the election of Ronald Reagan. That is generally available information I linked to from U.S. government data.

And, don’t fall into the trap of calling this corporatism as has become so common in our brainwashed world. Corporate capitalism is and always has been corporatism.  You’ll understand why in my next post if you don’t already appreciate that fact. 

There is no free market.  There is no omniscient god of the market that is the arbiter of all things good. And, there is no reality that market arbiter is more efficient and desirable than democratic government as is so often believed.  There are only possibilities of fair markets created through democracy and citizen self-rule. And, with my next post, you’ll understand those have never existed whenever corporate capitalism is involved.   

Quick Comments Regarding The Elections

I’m guessing we won’t have a final tally on the election for some days given what I read from Matt Taibbi on how varied the states are in their tabulation of mail-in ballots.  And, because from what is being reported right now, it appears to be a near deadlock separated by less than five electoral votes in some projections. (I’m seeing states swing back and forth)  If the race is this close by tomorrow morning, I’m guessing we will likely have recounts and challenges from the losing side.  I have limited views into what’s being reported because I don’t have cable TV.  I have just checked into a couple of web sites in the last half of an hour. 

I think one thing is certain. The Democratic elites picked a dotard with a long history of unethical behavior because the party machine and their major corporate donors could control him.  This turned off a lot of people who have abandoned the Democratic Party.  Nothing would be more appropriate to be Obama’s legacy than for his handpicked candidate to get beat in the biggest upset in American history.  He manipulated the primaries to allow Biden to win.  Then he went on the campaign trail to hypocritically attack Trump.  In fact, there are multiple new small progressive parties that have big voices behind them.  This should be a lesson to the Democratic Party but they won’t listen.  They are tone deaf to working class struggles in this nation.  They are the party of self-entitled elites.  Not that the Republican Party is beloved.  They are even more cruel.  Even Fox News had an exit poll where 72% wanted single payer healthcare.  And, I’m guessing most in-person voters are Republican.  That jives with polls I have seen where 80% of Americans want single payer healthcare. 

Trump really isn’t a Republican anyway.  He’s something from a planet far, far away. 

And, that is very important. As I’ve noted in a few posts in 2020 and in prior years, the presidency is a cult leader in our nation. As society becomes more radicalized, it’s imperative a candidate inspire the passion a cult leader is capable of.  Trump has that in spades.  Obama did too.  Biden inspires literally no one.  And, given Trump’s success with the Black community is up substantially, I am quite certain it is because Biden is substantially responsible for millions of Black men who were incarcerated. Oftentimes, for very dubious reasons.  We don’t have the largest prison population in the world because we have the most criminals. We have the largest prison population because we have a criminal government.

As noted in my last post, I didn’t vote for either candidate. I have no skin in this game. But, given where we are, I do have a preference for the system to be held to account in front of the American people.  The Democrats taking both houses of Congress and Trump taking the presidency would hold both parties to account by each holding a branch of government.  Then, there can be no finger pointing from the Democrats on legislation. And, there can be no finger pointing by Republicans on passage or veto of said legislation.  It’s all as clear as mud so the American people can see both parties exactly as they are to hold both parties accountable.