FASCISM: MIXING CLASS WARFARE and CRONY CAPITALISM
UNTIE-ing the KNOT of COLLUSION– FAT CATS TOO BIG to FAIL
The “RHETORIC” of “CONFLICT”; the “REALITY” of “COLLUSION”
The “RHETORIC” of “CONFLICT” The “REALITY” of “COLLUSION”
Jonah Goldberg: good medicine, like good economics, depends on discarding unproven Mythology.
These MYTHS are entwined with one another in a magnificent KNOT of CONFUSION: simultaneously mixing class warfare and crony capitalism
fascist government “MIXES” public and private. fascist government MIXES“fair” and “free” market, placing a “corporate “stranglehold”of “the system”with an even more powerful state “stranglehold” replacing “private”concentration of power with a far larger “public” concentration of power.
The state rhetorically fights for “the people” to “protect” the “free market”, yet colludes with big business topreventa“free market”,SIMULTANEOUSLYprotecting the people” from monopolies, using regulatory monopoly to protect “fat cats” from competition
Jonah Goldberg: “liberals foster precisely the sickness they hope to remedy, REINFORCING, NOT “REINING IN” CORPORATISM.
The fascist state claims to be against the corporate “fat-cats”.
Instead, the fascist state collaborates with compliant corporate “fat-cats”.
The fascist state USES big business to further its own “agenda”.
The fascist state gains power from popular support and resentment against “the rich” big business works to support government’s political agenda. big business profits and gets “protection” from government collaboration.
The state (group) suffered at the hands of a few “fat cats” (individuals) democrats want to ‘rein in’ corporations. corporations are inherentlyright wing, and if unchecked, these evil entitieswill bring us towards fascism.
saul argues corporate c.e.o.s are “the true descendants of benito Mussolini”.
novelist john ralston saul argues we live in a corporatist–fascist society, but we are unwilling to see it.
The fight against ‘corporate paymasters’ is part of the struggle to keep fascism ‘at bay’” the way to keep business from corrupting government is for government to regulate business to within one inch of it’s life. the fascist state CLAIMSto be againstthe corporate “fat-cats”.
Fascism’s success almost always depends on the COOPERATION of the “LOSERS” …
During a time of economic and technical CHANGE populist RESENTMENT against “fat Cats … the system”, CLASS RESENTMENT by STATE leaders on BEHALF of the “COMMON” people”
CLASS WARFARE– the “haves” exploiting the forgotten “have nots”. “POPULIST” economics for the “public interest”:
“We don`t say to the rich`give to the poor`, we say `German people, help each other`” – Hitler
“rich or poor, each one must help thinking, there`s someone even poorer than i am, and i want to help them as a fellow countryman”- Hitler
“My administration is the only thing between you [ceo’s] and the pitchforks.”– barack obama
The U.S. has systematically promoted a terrorism of it’s own” … of greedy capitalists who
need reformby the “just” power of the state” … ”corporations under stakeholdercontrol, not
just stockholdercontrol…and their arroganceis the major threat to our futureas a freesociety.” – george lakoff
Marxism and Fascism bothappeal to “havesvs. have-nots” to gain POWER
“no dividing line between the rich and poor, and no class distinctions to breed mean ENVIES.” – George Creel
FREE MARKET CAPITALISM IS CONSIDERED “THE ENEMY”
BOTH “FASCISTS” AND “SOCIALISTS” DESPISE “FREE”MARKETS
BOTH “FASCISTS” AND “SOCIALISTS” SEEK “FAIR” MARKETS – DETERMINED BY THE STATE.
saul alinsky: “the AGITATOR’s job is first to bring folks to the “realization” that they are indeed MISERY … that their misery is the FAULT of UNRESPONSIVE GOVERNMENTS or GREEDY CORPORATIONS”
barack obama: “we had years in which the reigning economic ideology has been whatgood for wall street not…main street… it is shameful …what we’re going to need is for the folks onwall street … to show some restraint, …discipline, … responsibility… when CEOsare making more in ten minutes than the average worker earns in a year, and millions of families lose their homes due to unscrupulous lending… checked neither by a sense of corporate ethics or a vigilant government … we have more work to do.”
Obama characterized republican John McCain’s approach to taxes as nothing more than ‘‘putting corporations ahead of workers. obama said Americans are too often “held hostage“by insurance companies that deny or drop their coverage. protestors waved signs saying, “insurance companies are enemies of change” and “all Americans deserve affordable healthcare.”
Barack Obama: “it is shameful … what we’re going to need is for the folks on wall street … to show some restraint, …discipline, … responsibility.”
saul alinsky: “America’s corporations are a spiritual SLUM”
thefree market isput down as a“winner-take-all” economy
Hillary Rodham Clinton: ”over the past seven years, big corporations and special interests have
been given a free pass to profit, often at the expense of the american worker.”
as an undergraduate at wellesley college, hillary rodham wrote her senior thesis on alinsky.
Saul Alinsky: “The agitator’s job is first to bring folksto the “realization” that they are indeed
miserable” (with inequality) … that theirmiseryis the fault of unresponsive governments
and/orgreedy corporations”
“as president, hillary will make it a priority to scale back special benefits and subsidies to these
corporations and put those resources to work for our economy”
Obama has had a SEEMINGLY DIFFICULT relationship with wall street during his first term, after his regulatory overhaul and slamming “fat cat bankers”
On CBS’ “60 minutes” we’ve heard the woes of wall street over and over again – bailouts, layoffs, outsourcing the rich “fat cats” are PUBLICLY DEMONIZED towards popular resentment and class warfare.
Candidate Obama:“We saw an article today which showed that the top 50 hedge fund managers made $29 billion last year – $29 billion for 50 individuals”
“The most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles and we are on their side… and that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you’re supposed to do, is rewarded, … and that people who are irresponsible, who are reckless, who don’t feel a sense of obligation to their communities and their companies and their workers that those folks aren’t rewarded”
Obama alluded to his American jobs act, which would be funded in part by raising taxes on wealthier Americans and some corporations in order to make them pay “their fair share”
“My administration is the only thing between you [CEO’s] and the PITCHFORKS”– Barack Obama
“Throughout the country, all across main street … you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place. people are frustrated and the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works …wall street elites “game the system” – who exactly is “gaming the system”?