Is there any way to defeat the corporatists?
It’s been a long, successful run for “conservative” plutocrats
Since 1971, when Lewis Powell wrote his infamous memo outlining a corporate plot to subjugate democracy to the will of corporate interests, “conservative” plutocrats have been bending American institutions to their will.
Since academia was smarter than they and more inclined to justice, the plutocrats simply created “conservative” colleges and universities to indoctrinate young people with antidemocratic sentiments and to feed pseudo-academic “research” to their public “intellectuals.”
Since the media were well aware of their underhanded, illegal, and unjust tactics, the plutocrats simply created their own media organizations to feed mindless “conservatives” corporate-friendly propaganda and deliver up corporate-friendly politicians to the waiting masses.
Since the courts had been ruling against them since the early twentieth century, the plutocrats stood up the Federalist Society to create a phalanx of "conservative” lawyers to do battle against justice and to infiltrate the courts—all the way up to the Supreme Court.
It is not an unfounded fear to wonder if such relentless forces can ever be stopped.
They have been beaten before
The robber barons of the late nineteenth century thought they had all the wealth and power in America in their back pockets. And they did.
Until Teddy Roosevelt and his trust-busters came along. By passing and enforcing antitrust laws, the corporatists of the day were beaten back. Decent America fought them in the courts of justice and produced monopoly-breaking court opinions that freed up the oil industry, the railroad industry, and the tobacco industry from the dictatorial control of plutocrats.
The ruthless labor practices of corporate giants in the 1920s and 1930s brought corporate violence against workers and union organizers, together with fake unions supported by the corporations that battled real workers’ unions.
FDR took that all on with the Wagner Act, otherwise known as the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. This told workers what rights they had and corporations what injustices they had to stop. And it formed the basis for decent labor relations for more than thirty years—until the corporatists started implementing the Powell Memo.
We need a new age of trust-busters, armed with new laws, equipped with new tools of modern cyber-investigation, and backed by decent American G-men who serve justice rather than “conservative” ideology.
But how are we going to get the laws, the tools, and the loyal G-men? Especially with plutocrat lackeys seeded throughout all three branches of government?
Decent America can stop them again
It’s hard to keep saying this, but again it all falls on the shoulders of decent Americans. It seems unfair, but life isn’t fair. And you can’t expect to get any help from degenerate “conservatives.” That’s like asking the bank robber to arrest himself.
It’s all on us. And because we have a representative democracy, we have to solve all its problems in the same way. We simply have to replace our representatives and then have them replace the laws, marshal the tools, and root out the lackeys.
Imagine what America would look like if the plutocrats were knocked off their perches at the top of the political food chain, starving all their Republican lackeys in every nook of government.
Imagine how we could start fixing the world’s problems if we chose representatives who would would kick out all the Republican saboteurs in government.
Imagine the future achievements of human industry, art, and spirit that could flower if justice took first place instead of money and power.
No one is going to choose these representatives but us. No one is going to beat the plutocrats but us. It’s not fair that it’s all on our shoulders, but that’s the burden of decency in a time of degeneracy.
We decent Americans have beaten them down before. We can do it again.
Take your vote and make it so!
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Here’s hoping