Corporatist America: The Revolution Has Already Been
Televised...
25 August 2010By Jane Stillwater
"It's the government that's to blame for everything!"
right-wingers cry. "We need to have less government!"
But exactly which government are these people talking
about? Is it the government that Americans used to
have back when George Washington was president? Or has
a new form of government stealthily replaced that
old-school government we used to know and love -- sort
of like a take-over by body-snatchers, happening while
our backs were turned and we were happily off watching
TV.
Let's face it, guys. The U.S. government IS to blame
for everything nowadays. But it is not the same
government that we used to have -- as recently as 60
years ago. It's our former government's evil twin that
is screwing everything up!
Just exactly which government is getting blamed by the
right-wingers these days? Are they blaming a
government that is run according to the Constitution,
was elected by people who knew that their votes were
being counted honestly and which is designed to work
for the benefit of us American voters? Yep, that's the
very one that the wingers are blaming -- even though
that fantasy government has been moribund for decades.
And are the wingers blaming this new doppelganger
government too -- the one that was bought and paid for
by lobbyists, that is owned lock, stock and barrel by
corporatists and corporations, and that is turning
Americans into just another source of cheap labor for
the new oligarchs? Nope. THAT government is escaping
Scot-free from the right wing's wrath. That government
is not being blamed for anything.
America's current "government" right now appears to
resemble one of the multiple personalities from that
old movie, "The Three Faces of Eve" -- in the scene
where Eve Black jokes about how she used to do bad
things when she was a kid and then escape her body and
let poor sweet Eve White take their irate mother's
punishments.
What wingers think of as government these days -- and
most other Americans do the same thing too -- isn't
really America's real government at all. Our real
government is more like a monster growing out of some
poor schmuck's stomach in "Alien".
Wingers seem to be all about blaming "Government" for
all of our woes -- and yet they sing the praises and
kiss the [bottoms] of large global corporations. But
guess what guys. Global corporations and America's
government are now almost exactly the same thing.
Right now, there is almost nothing on this planet more
"privatized" than the American government. All the
fruits of our labor, and perhaps even our very souls,
are government property now -- a government taken over
by oligarchs. And the government of George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson and the Boston Tea Party -- the one
that right wingers seem to hate so much -- no longer
exists.
And this oligarchs' revolution has already been
televised.
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