Supreme Court betrays America

I am still seething about the Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited money from corporations to flood the political process .

I am actually beginning a plan to leave the U.S.  After this  SCOTUS decision, the quality of life here will go into the toilet.  I am beginning the process of finding somewhere else to live.  I don't know if I can actually do it, or convince my family but it's worth a try.

I am too old to fight a revolution.  That would be the best outcome by far.  Revolution would be our only hope for a decent future.  business as usual will become increasingly intolerable.

It is possible that the corporations will realize that they will have to ease us into the quagmire slowly so that we are like the frog in the gradually heating water.  By the time the water reaches a boil, it is too late for the frog.  I am not sure that big corporations have that much patience.  Short term profits are too hard for them to resist. 

This decision by the Roberts court is extremely reactionary, and radical.  Once the flood gates are opened, the only voices to be heard will be those with the mega bucks behind them.  That is, the only politicians who will be allowed to run for office will be corporate shills.  Candidates with liberal or progressive views will be poisoned by billions of dollars of bad publicity until they are forced out.  The public media will be awash with confusion, lies, and deceit.  Actually, the 2 party system will only be a shadow of itself.  There will be no left and right.  Only a right wing.  And who will speak for the interests of the people?

Republicans are forever referencing the "American people", but in reality are talking only about their own narrow following.  They have no ears for anyone who disagrees with their reactionary crap.  And do they have any ideas?  Do they have any substantive proposals.  They have none.  They mumble a few minor adjustments here and there, but really, what they want is unbridled capitalist domination.

While I am disappointed in liberal politics to deliver anything, I still root for progress.  Once the Roberts decision rolls out, there won't be anyone or anything to root for.  There will be nothing but uncontrolled backsliding.  America is dead.

Supreme Court Corporate Coup

I care about politics.  I enjoy a good debate.  But things have changed since the supreme court decision to allow unlimited corporate money to be channeled into political advertising. 

With this decision, it is likely that Obama will be the last of the democratically elected Presidents.  There will be no need for two parties.  In fact, no candidate need enter any race without strong corporate backing.   You can vote for Tweedle Dee, or Tweedle Dum.  Take your pick.  Either way you vote for big business.

Instead of democracy America may end up with something like the "democracy" that we suffer in every large company workplace.  It clearly isn't democracy.  Decisions are made from the top for monetary reasons only.

Imagine a candidate wanting to run for President, or Senate, or even Judge who strongly supports curbs on greenhouse gases, or  health reform, or bank reform.  These industries can launch millions, even billions of dollars of slick advertising to absolutely confuse, misrepresent, and overwhelm the public.  The little guy will not get even a minute.  Even Unions will get swamped by the massive budgets that private industry can martial.

A citizen's vote will become a sick joke.  The only candidates on the docket will be pre-selected by big business.  No person can run for office unless he or she has the "blessing" of the corporate masters.   And it means that politicians must obey the businesses that "sponsor" them.


Even scarier is the future.  Once the corporate take over is in place, there will be no chance of reversing it.  There will no one in power who can speak for the people.  No one.


I have been reading about the building blocks of fascism.  Corporatism is the foundation.  Add to that a charismatic, nationalist demigod like Hitler, or Mussolini, and you have the formula for world wide catastrophe.  It is not hard to imagine. 

What if the poor little U.S. was getting beat out of all the best goodies, and influence in the world by mean old China, Russia, or the European Union.  This could set the stage for the emergence of an ultra-nationalist "savior" playing to peoples' lowest instincts, and paranoia.  There would be no real democratic process in place to stop it.


I think that resistance will emerge fairly quickly.  Unfortunately, those in power will not give up their power peacefully.  The American people are going to have to fight for it.  Remember, the Dred-Scott decision sparked the first American Civil War.  It looks like there is another one on the horizon. 

Democracy takes a death blow

With the Supreme Court decision to allow unlimited advertising by corporations for political candidates, there will no longer be any possibility of a candidate running for office who does not bow to the will of dominant corporate America.  With no candidate visible who speaks for the people, there will, in truth, be no choice to make, and therefore no reason to vote.  The Congress, the Senate, the President, and all elected Judges will become corporate whores.  They will be totally deaf to public needs, or wishes.

The reason is simple.  Once corporations control the information that is available to voters by blanketing the media with ads for their own whores, the little guy, the populist, or the progressive will be drowned out, and quickly "swift boated" out of the running.  Corporations like Enron can outspend any non-Enron politician by a factor of 90 to one in advertising.  The little guy doesn't have a chance.

What can we expect?  Health care will only be available to the rich.  Massive unlimited environmental destruction and polution without restriction.  An internet where insipid advertising and corporate propaganda are pushed in your face, while low budget, "unapproved" sites will be censored or slowed to painful loading speeds.  Television will be absent any real debate about issues important to corporate management. The media will packed with baby food-like stories, and local intrest glam. Corporations will be identified by the political campaigns that they promote.  High level company management meetings will wrangle about which politicians can be bought for their special interest, and which are haggling for more money with the threat of voting with the competition.  Protests will be dealt with like Iran deals with them.  Threaten these corporations, and they will kill you.  As for women's rights, think 1940s.  Any sector of the population that can be super exploited will be.  The same goes for minorities.

It is time to begin to stockpile weapons, and form up behind reliable leadership.  I predict that hatred, and resentment for this corporate control will build to the point of violence.  Take away even the vail of democracy, and people get pissed.  A corporatist state, along with repressive nationalist dictators is the basic formula for fascism.