"Amerika, Inc."

[Joanne98]

For OpEdNews: Dave Lefcourt - Writer



There remains little doubt in the mind of this writer that we in America have now the complete corporate takeover of our country.

They reign supreme as our democratic institutions, the Congress, state assemblies, our public and private universities et al have been usurped and bought off by big corporate largesse.

Our media are owned by the corporate barons. They have long since been rid of the likes of Edward R. Morrow and Walter Cronkite whose independence and integrity questioned the red baiting of a Joe McCarthy or the morass of the Viet Nam war (to the consternation of the government and maybe their corporate overlords of the time), but they commanded the publics respect and they couldn't be silenced. We have lost their skepticism as our corporate owned media now presents "happy news" or the "food fight" political spats between MSNBC and FOX (that is nothing more than an elixir for their respective fans to hate the other), celebrity gossip and "reality show" inanity plus inundating the public with sports that serves to distract us while infantilizing us with beer and car ads that steal whatever imagination we may have left.

Our mass entertainment (besides the mostly moronic T.V.) of movies at multiplexes and franchised restaurants serve to homogenize the culture to believe we are free to make choices (yes but within the confining limits of what the corporate marketing gurus decide). Meanwhile our basic purchases of food, clothing and other essentials are dominated by the Wal-marts and other big box corporate outfits.

Our industries have been relocated and the labor outsourced to 3rd world countries all with the blessing of our government whose tax incentive write offs and no domestic tariffs (of foreign made goods but American corporate owned) go to the enrichment of the corporate honchos and their investors but to the decimation of the American worker.


The wars we fight are unnecessary but serve the interests of the military/industrial/political troika (exactly what Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell speech in 1960).

We the people are but pawns to be manipulated and propagandized made passive and docile, dispersed, isolated and socially fragmented from taking collective action against that which is literally a malevolent giant corporate octopus whose tentacles are omnipresent and the thing we should effectively oppose and not accept as something benevolent that serves our interest.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Amerika-Inc--by-Dave-Lefcourt-101109-217.html

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Little doubt is right.

K&R

[Newest Reality]

2. I think that is only partially true and

may even be a diversion.

The way it looks is: Owners --> Elite Banking System + Corporations ... etc. That's the Empire we are actually in and the Bonds Market is the key.

[JudyM]

3. We are so witnessing The Matrix. At least we still have the DU 'phone' to reality. eom

[cilla4progress]

4. Yup. I've decided

this country deserves Sarah Palin as President. It's the ultimate full realization of the trajectory on which we now are. We elect her as President (with fully 47% either not voting, or 15% opposition actually participating and voting for the alternative and losing) and we fulfill the current gravitational pull toward an evil twin version of Disneyland. Then we scrape what is left of Amerika up off the sidewalk, and see if we can be adopted by Canada or Norwegia or some Western social democracy, and whether we can salvage anything ANYTHING at all from the ashes. It's like vertigo; just follow the inevitable downward pull.

Maybe after complete and utter evisceration of the "body politic" (hah!) and country as a whole, we can rid ourselves of our corrupt capitalistic / corporate state and, in the dregs that remain, recast ourselves as something that may endure, at least as long as the planet does.