An elephant may never forget, but the elephants of the GOP are sure hoping that you will, well, overlook a few inconvenient truths in their march to bring back 19th century capitalism without a social safety net. Sadly, so does the media caught between the story and an epic pay day.
Their vested interest and power, without regard to consequence or the welfare of the nation, is only countered by you.
Power. That’s the name of the game in Republican politics. Not principle. Not vision. Who are the core players in that power game? t2P has combed several lists of ‘key’ Republican players from the two opposing forces in the Radical Right, the Libertarians and the Neo Cons. Our top ten list represents the people who, through political clout, money, or both, are seminal driving forces that corrupt Republican politics and push it to the extremist ends that it promotes today.
Rick Santorum and the men of the GOP rail on about Right-to-Life issues. It’s a Republican conundrum: Appeasing the Religious Right creates a nightmarish welfare state abhorrent to selfish Libertarian and fiscal conservatives that, unchecked, could bring about the devolution of mankind. Sounds too strong? Read on.
Standing and yelling and singing in Zuccotti Park only gets you so far. There’s a real way to “occupy” Wall Street that hits them where they live. Corporations are, amazingly, democracies.
We hand out millions of college diplomas that prove education in everything from microorganisms to law to engineering, but we don’t teach our children how to balance a checkbook, or, more important, how the investment world of Wall Street really works. This makes us ripe for rip-off by the con-men, carnies and hucksters that command Wall Street, and allows the kind of rampant, unaccountable use of corporations as personal fiefdoms by a handful of the self-anointed.
There is a way to beat them at their own game: Take command of the corporatocracy.
Chrysler, in its Phoenix like ascension from the ashes of Old Detroit, has branded its survival story as the modern American narrative, the pulse of 2012 America. In its Clint Eastwood Super Bowl ad, “halftime,” it gives President Obama the pitch his campaign has been trying to crystallize, and tosses a defiant, skyward middle finger at Mitt “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” Romney and the GOP. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week, the most powerful company in the world became even more powerful. GOOGLE, Inc. of Mountain View California, just went into the cellphone and cable TV markets, purchasing Motorola Mobility for $12.5B. Google likes you to think of them as your fuzzy, open-source buddy. They are Big Brother, a corporate BORG, constantly learning and sucking the viability out of industry.
Google has learned the lesson of monopoly stripping from Microsoft. Make yourself big and scary, and the antitrust lawyers will come calling. Be adept at looking like the public champions, and the Justice Department leaves you alone.
They have managed to plunder the advertising coin of major newspapers and magazines, advertising, and web publishing keeping the web enslaved to its vast collective. They have their sights set on dominating music, entertainment, mobile telephony and, soon, the auto industry. Read the rest of this entry »
Mitt Romney has been out on the stump, proving once again that he is a good automaton for scripted moments, but that his ability to engage in retail politics is a little lacking. The Fire Alarm disaster of late May was nothing by comparison to his Wonderama-rific “Corporations are people, my friend” speech yesterday. Legally right, morally wrong, and politically incorrect, the gaffe was even cat-called by fellow Republicans attending the Mittster’s stump speech late last week. 
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Be honest: You and most people are affected by the economy, but you only have a glimmer of an idea why it’s screwed up. There is the massive disinformation campaign put on by the billionaires who control millions spent by companies’ lobbyists, Astroturf grassroots activist groups, and propaganda outlets like Fox News to make the common thinking on the economy their thinking. Here’s a 101 on the economy, and why the fear-narrative on debt ceiling talks and cries of America going broke are a lot of hooey. Read the rest of this entry »
If you turned on a TV, or picked up a newspaper, or logged in to the Internet in 2008, it was everywhere: The Bailout.
It was evil.
It was immoral.
It was the end of days.
It worked.
President Obama wants to bulk up high-speed rail, and scale down defense spending. FDR converted peace-time manufacturers into a dominating wartime production system. Why can’t President Obama make the bold move to convert our defense contractors into builders of our peacetime future?
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