US: Corporatocracy vs. Working Class

It should  be evident to many, that the United States is no longer that “shining light on the hill,” that glimmering example of a pure democracy for the world. Even at a cursory glance, one can observe rigged elections, an establishment media spewing propaganda, and a two party system, that in reality, is a one party group of politicians beholden to the “donor class”: this class are the corporations. The United States is a faux-democracy, when for all intents and purposes, is a Oligarchical/Corporatocracy.

What is a corporatocarcy?

This a recent term that refers to an economic or political system run by corporations.

When a government has a system filled with lobby groups, all concerned about their own political agendas, running through the halls of power with $ to burn, well, politicians are human, and money rules in Washington DC, when it comes to the legislature, overriding the will of the people.

There are laws, of course, limiting the amount of cash a politician can receive from such lobby groups. That said, secret charities, tax loopholes and the like, can get around these laws with no effort. Do you ever wonder how a politician entering congress for the first time, with little wealth to show, leaves office years later a millionaire? The Speaker of the House, Nancy Peloisi, was quite well off when she entered public life, but her accrued wealth currently is three times that when she entered, on a public servants wage? How can this be? In a nut shell, in the US, politics is $, and $ is politics, which pretty much runs the entire show. To my mind, everything else is theatre.

Currently we have a politician running for the democratic nomination for president of the United States, Bernie Sanders, that through his entire career, has protested against money in American politics. In this 2020 run for the nominee, he has taken zero dollars from corporate interests, and has relied on individual donations. In fact, his campaign has collected more money in this fashion, than any other candidate in American history. If you have been following Bernie's campaign, his entire policy premise revolves around the common working class. His policies of medicare for all, a Green New Deal, $15 minimum wage, and free college, is the concerns of the working class. And to be certain, this has been denied from the American people for way too long. That said, the Corporatocracy, because monetarily, it goes against their own best interests, are fighting like hell. Thus “they”, including the politicians under their thumb, want to deny the people from these basic rights as well.

After observing the concerted effort from the Corporatocracy on Super Tuesday, coalescing the power of the DNC, milk toast candidates dropping out and supporting Joe Biden, including the non-stop propaganda from the corporate media, (voter rigging) it was no wonder that Bernie lost in States he should have won easily. It has become more than obvious, that this particular democratic race is a contest between the rich and the working class.

It pains me as well, to observe American voters seemingly unaware of this obvious class conflict. Indeed, it is a class conflict without the bullets and the guillotines. One woman stated on twitter that she doesn't want a “revolution”, that she just wants life back to normal. I wanted to tell the woman to define “normal”, but decided against it.

Those politicians and corporate pundits against Bernie's grass roots movement of the working class have weak arguments as well. They either call him that dirty word “socialist” or label him a Putin puppet or, most ridiculous, his followers on social media are all mean. On face value this is absurd. See my blog on democratic socialism: https://sychronicity1.blogspot.com/2020/03/why-im-democratic-socialist.html

It would be somewhat of a miracle to see many more working class folk realise what Sanders' wants for them, rather than listening to the tired, but it seems, effective propaganda coming from the corporate media.

However, at this stage, this might be too much to ask.