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The Tea Party Movement Corporate America's very real revolution.
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The Left had better wake up and smell the coffee. This isn't just a faux version of attempting to do the Right Wing version of the 1960's. This is a very real revolution. This revolution aims at nothing less than the final corporate takeover of our entire political system because democracy is tremendously inefficient by corporate business standards. What with its elections that can radically change the direction of this nation politically there always remains the risk that reform will benefit the people and that profits will be curtailed in the form of regulations to protect consumers from defective products or safer work places or minimum wages laws.
Michelle Bachmann may be stupid enough to believe this movement is about her whacked out view of the world, but if the truth be known even in corporte boardroom's they think she's a nut. While she is percieved as a nut she, like other Right Wing Republicans, is a very useful nut in that she gives access to a ready made politcal apparatus, the national Republican Party. From its party structure they can launch their final Coup d' Etat against representative democracy while actually using our electoral process to takeover.
In this age 50 of the 100 largest economies in the world are corporations and because of this now have the ability in their international reach to rule. They have their own structure and bureaucracy for governance and they can tax through use of fee's for access to them as banks and credit card companies do now. In the past they have not had the scope to rule so to control government they needed to coopt it. In global capitalism they can jettison government as a partner and can utilize boards of directors to legislate, the CEO as dictator and corporate bureacracy to govern.
Lets face it Corporate America has a far better memory than most Americans and they fully remember the New Deal and how it remade America into a much more egalitarian place with organized labor creating a strong Middle Class. Corporate America has been working diligently since at least the advent of Ronald Reagans presidency to take absolute and complete control. As many of us experience at work it is an absolute dictatorship but for now it is only 8 to 10 hours a day.
Lobbying, and a political system awash in money has worked well to strengthen the Corporate grip on government, but as Obama's election proves that control is not fool proof. With Democratic Party control of both the House and Senate as well as the Presidency, Corporate America and Wall Street only are in control of John Roberts Supreme Court.
With trillions in greed driven profits at stake. They need to prevent Obama from doing anything because success would cement Democrats in power for the foreseeable future not only thwarting unlimited profits but constricting privatized political power. They must prevent any decrease of current gains curtailing regulation of business while also taking a more permanent control of governance so they never face reform again.
Over the course of the Reagan Administration through George Bush Juniors presidency Corporate America has worked in partnership with government to completely disenfranchise the American people. It is global capital after all not Left Wing Liberals that has the desire to create a New World economic order. Only a strong democratic American government is big enough to stand in the way of Global Capitals New World and defending its people from this order based on powerful corporations not governments. But to do this you have to sell the Ameican people on the desirability of losing our rights and freedom's for profits for the few.
You put the same ad agencies that sell us tooth paste, soap and cheap plastic crap from Wal- Mart to work to sell the American people the lie that their biggest enemy is their own government. Not because Government is incompetatnt but because it is the only thing that can protect Americans from the economic New World order of huge profits for a very few incredibly wealthy people while the rest of us work as s**t coolies for sweat shop wages in competition with everyone else for thirty five cents an hour. That is the ideal that the people behind theTea Party Movement have in mind for all of us, Ironically by selling us the fiction that this is the kind of tyranny our ancestors have fought and died for. Give me Profits or give me death is today's revolutionary call to arms.
I say this because repeatedly you find corporate America's greedy despotic foot print all over the Tea Party movement using the imagery of the American Revolution to rally average Americans who know something is wrong but aren't sure of what, to their sinister cause.
Think Progress' s Lee Fang found that American's for Prosperity, the Corporate front group for Koch Industries had worked closely with Michelle Bachmann ( R- Mn ) to orchestrate the latest anti-reform rally on Washington. It also provided at least forty buses of activists with free rides to swell the ranks of the approximately 4,000 perticipants at the rally.
The left has made fun of this movement because it is corporate funded through and through all the way to phony grass roots sounding web sites like Patients United Now the fraudulent anti health reform group. All are attached to the financial umbilical cord of a few ultra Right Wing billionaires like David Koch, Richard Mellon Scaife and others.
Think Progress found that AFP ( Americans for Prosperity ) had staffers at designated bus stops passing out signs, handing out talking points and passing out petitions. A number of these staffers like Tim Phillips the presdient of AFP and Ben Marchi, a former Tom DeLay staffer have direct ties to the Republican Party.
Americans for Properity has direct ties to the oil and natural gas industries through the Koch family funding of its operation. But it also has ties to the lobbying arm of the coal Industry Friends of Coal, and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, whose hired advertising agency was busted for writing phony grass roots letters to various Congress people. Tim Phillips has also had many ties to the Health Insurance Industry as well. He is paid to make sure we get no green jobs, new energy technology or health care that actually benefits us instead of our money lining Insurance companies CEO's pockets.
One wonders how many of the well meaning Tea Party protestors really understand that underneath all the hot revolutionary rhetoric they are being used to support policies that will boost the rich while keeping them poor and powerless, stripping consummer safety protections, allowing the banking industry to do its its own accounting, selling America the idea that mountain top coal removal is clean and beneficial and that only Socialists and Communists could possibly see it other wise.
The illusion that even the Left has is that our American Electoral institutions will be left in tact even if compromised by the amount of money being spent controlling it. In actuality Corporate America has a more extensive and permanent revolution in mind. It is they and not the Left who have a permanent and lasting dictatorship and new world order in mind. Total control is the only efficient way to control the trillions in profit to be made and use us all as resouces of production.
A Corporate American revolution is the only really potentially successful one because all talk of armed rebellion is laughhable with the military technology we have. But what if you co-opt an American political party with phony revolutionary rhetoric and use its electoral apparatus to take power through the American political process? Is that truly unthinkable?
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