The United States Is A Death Cult–As Eisenhower Noted, Humanity Is Hanging From An Iron Cross

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

The above link is to Eisenhower’s Chance for Peace speech soon after World War II.  In the speech, Eisenhower essentially noted that the military steals from the poor to murder the poor around the world.  Eisenhower made many warnings both publicly and privately about corporate power.  They all seem prescient today given corporate capitalism has devoured democracy in our nation.

At some point, I plan to put up a post highlighting the endless hundreds of trillions (in today’s dollars) of bailouts for corporate capitalism in the last century.  It’s staggering. Capitalism cannot sustain itself without endless bailouts and rigging of policy.  I’ll be laying out a data-driven analysis of that soon enough.  Something that you will literally not read anywhere else. Because society is so brainwashed that we accept what we are told and no complex systems analysis of corporate capitalism is ever done. I’ve already highlighted some of this, but I’ll be summarizing it in future posts that are concise and very easy to understand without the reader needing any knowledge of economics or finance; which are both abject failures and non-scientific criminal rackets of the state. 

For now, let me given you an example of what I am talking about as it pertains to rigging and bailouts.  Corporate capitalism collapsed in 1929. Actually, it collapsed in 1920 but I’ll leave that for another post. (Corporate capitalism as a control system was really only been the basis of our society since the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 or 14. I can’t remember which.  And, with the corrupt Supreme Court decision giving corporations the rights of people in the late 1800s. 

Anyway, visually, corporate capitalism collapsed in 1929. The stock market collapsed and the economy didn’t recover for the entirety of the 1930s. To a certain extent, agrarianism still existed in our nation during that time so millions were able to fend for themselves or barter to some degree. But, those who lived in cities under corporate rule, suffered astronomical poverty and homelessness. (Bad news for today as corporations have forced millions off of an agrarian existence into cities under the control of the corporate state.)  Corporate capitalism showed no ability to recover throughout the 1930s. This led to a jobs program by Roosevelt to bailout corporate capitalism.  Then World War II broke out.  The tooling of the US corporate economy for armaments created massive profits and led to recovered employment.  At the end of World War II, if the US had shut down the armaments industry, or the economic overproduction war required, capitalism would have collapsed again.

US policy makers worried about the return of the Great Depression.  So, in concert with corporate power, they passed the National Security Act of 1947 (discussed on here many times). that institutionalized war, the deep state, the CIA and the permanent armaments industry.  A political benefit of this for corporate capitalism was that it also maintained full employment achieved via making bombs.  This was a soft coup and a corporate bailout that continued the devouring of democracy. It created the National Security Council; in which the military, the CIA and deep state now advised our presidents on all global matters. It is arguable that with this act civilians are no longer in control of the military-industrial complex.  Or, if the corporate-capitalist-powered military-industrial complex has effectively overthrown citizen government.  For a president to deny National Security Council advice would be to deny this institutionalized corporate power. And, no president has ever done so with the possible exception of John F. Kennedy.  The NSAct corporatized and militarized our foreign policy to one that is driven by corporate capitalism’s profit motive. 

Additionally, at the end of WWII, the Marshall Plan was again another bailout for corporate capitalism. The United States didn’t give Europe massive amounts of corporate-produced goods out of the goodness of our hearts.  The US had massive corporate capitalist overproduction capacity after the war and employment, corporate profits and US social stability was reliant on it.  Yet, with the war over, there was no demand for this capacity and massive unemployment and the collapse of capitalism was again imminent. The Marshall Plan and the NSAct allowed corporate capitalism to be bailed out once again.

Both of these end-of-war dynamics rigged corporate profits and employment at completely unsustainable levels for the coming decades as the world’s production capacity was obliterated. That meant the US had no economic competition for decades.  By the 1960s, the world was often making superior products to the US. So, not only were their economies recovering, but they were selling those products to the United States. Endless war in the 1950s and 1960s with Korea, Vietnam and contrived global skirmishes continued to pump up the demand for military gear(corporate bailouts) in the US as we created boogeymen to keep military corporate employment and corporate profits from collapsing. By 1970, the US was essentially once again unable to pay its bills as the economy and employment faltered. Many were predicting a coming economic depression in the US.  The Nixon administration essentially contrived a half-baked political plan to default on the global gold standard and suspend payments of gold to countries who saw the US economy was incapable of paying its bills. This was again nothing more than a bailout for corporate capitalism.

Mind you, this short period of time was the only in American history where corporate capitalism was able to provide reasonably full employment. And, it was because the US had bombed the world into submission (corporate capitalism bailout) and had a monopoly on production and corporate profits(bailouts). And, because corporations had rigged our government’s policies to continue to receive subsidies, rigging, wars and maybe most importantly, the Cold War. (There is a mathematical gaming argument to be had that corporate capitalism as a control system in the US cannot continue to exist without a global enemy, which is why we created the war on terror and the national security state is attempting to transition to Russia and China as boogeymen.)

I’ll leave what happened next to a future post. But, it is the basis of my endless remarks over the years that US economic wealth peaked around 1980.  For now, if you look around you, much of the US today lives in abject poverty that has been exploding since Reagan deregulated (bailout) for-profit corporate capitalism. And, since the Federal Reserve adopted libertarian-inspired monetarism under Reagan’s tenure. Monetarism too is a criminal system that provides bailouts for corporate capitalism as it spits out massive sums of noneconomic money to endlessly bailout corporations.

As an side, I recently remarked to someone who was chanting about US greatness in a conversation about Japan. I noted the average Japanese citizen has a substantially higher standard of living than the average American. And, substantial social safety nets that kept citizens out of poverty and bankruptcy. This person, who hasn’t been out of his own backyard, is typical of the corporate brainwashing in the US.  I’ve been to Japan, and have close friendships with families in Japan. Their wealth and technical prowess is staggering in comparison to ours. Their economy is not based on competitive capitalism. It’s based on cooperation, even though the US has attempted to exert pressure on Japan to adopt a “free market” (cult) economy that has never, ever been the basis of any democratic society until adopted by ideological kooks in the US.

These riggings and massive bailouts for corporate capitalism intensify in size and frequency in order for the corporate state bureaucracy to continue its illusory propaganda. The economic events we witness as a society are shocks to the system that have lasting effects and reduce its resiliency and the ability of individuals to recover from the economic devastation left by corporations.  The scope and frequency of those shocks is quickening since 2000.  Some have coined this disaster capitalism.  This is a misnomer. The system is inherently unstable and without substantial corporate bailouts and policy rigging is unsustainable. We see this in endless subsidies by government, rules rigging by government and endless war needed to keep the system going.

Let me get to the spirit of this post after the above baseline remarks.  The pandemic has started revealing many truths.  One of which is that democracy is dead; something noted on here endlessly.  And, our government is operating exactly as it is intended to operate given it has been devoured by corporate capitalism.  There is no difference between Democrats and Republicans.  They are all economic and social criminals. 

The pandemic has acted as a truth serum.  It has shown our government has no problem allowing small businesses, community businesses, democratic social safety nets and American citizens die while they continue to fund outrageous military budgets and trillions in corporate bailouts from their donors.  Political parties are themselves corporations that rely in the comingling of dirty money to also rig our political system and subvert democracy.  Just as corporate capitalism does. When it comes to helping small businesses, communities or individuals, our nation is a death cult.  $300 a week for unemployment when even undeveloped and communist countries are providing more to their citizens. Most developed democracies are supporting individuals with $3,000-$7,500 a month and making all small businesses whole.  In the last 30-odd weeks, Americans have received little more than $1000 TOTAL from our government. Think about that.  During this time, Congress approved massive military expenditures amounting to $10,000 per family in our nation, trillions of bailouts to corporations and even more money to defense corporations in the form of bailouts. 

The US spends $1.2 trillion per annum on the military/the US police state in one form or another. Or, as Eisenhower noted, corporations steal from the poor to exploit and murder the poor.  Yet, when it comes to helping citizens who are suffering from no fault of their own, money is more important than human life. And, the Republican death cult is leading the charge in their worries about the budget. (Not that Democratic Party criminals like Pelosi, Schumer and the like are really any different.)  All worries of spending magically disappear when it involves defense spending or handouts for corporate donors.   

The US corporate state is a death cult that places money, profits, corporate power and war above the value of human life. Or, for that matter, any life or the health of the natural world. There’s endless money for corporate socialism, bailouts and rigging but those in power hate the poor. And hate anyone who is unable to consume to create the profits a system of Godless greed relies upon to perpetuate itself. This is nothing new. This is the very reason corporations were created by a feudal caste system in Europe. To rob workers and the poor and transfer that wealth to class, entitlement and privilege.

It’s good to be the king. But, karma is fast approaching and it’s a bitch.