Merging of the Government and the Corporations
We in the U.S. are going through a deep political, social, cultural, moral and economic upheaval. At the heart of this is income inequality. Income inequality between the rich and the working poor is becoming more apparent so that a more hopeful tomorrow for all seems more like a distant dream.
As the corporations become less dependent on workers’ labor, they are becoming hostile to the American people’s needs. The corporate oligarchy is acting to destroy the promise they once made to people that if they followed the rules, they’d be guaranteed a piece of the pie. Endlessly, they force workers to produce more in less time, reduce the number of workers in production lines by introducing labor-replacing technology, and they push to eliminate labor protections to drive wages down and maximize profits. This contributes to the number of people unemployed and not having enough to support a family, yet corporate profits are at an all time high, and the 85 richest people have as much wealth as the poorest 3 billion.
Millions of Americans have started to question the unfairness of the American economic model and become more frustrated and disconnected from the American political two-party system. As civil unrest by millions of the discontented seems more imminent, the corporate oligarchy sees this as a threat to private property and has used their money to seize control of our entire political system. Now the corporate oligarchy controls almost all of our elected officials. The Pentagon has armed local police with weapons of war, not to fight foreign soldiers, but against any union strikers at picket lines, any group rallying against inequality like Occupy, any group fighting to stop the deportations like the immigrant rights movement, and finally they made it very clear that excessive force and military tactics will be used against any group rallying against police brutality as in Ferguson, Missouri, when protestors took to the streets to demand justice for Michael Brown, a modest Midwest town became a war torn town.
The corporate oligarchy needs to protect private property because only that guarantees their absolute control of the American people and for corporate profits to continue to increase. Using the elected officials in their pockets, they made it very clear that protecting their masters is more important than protecting the public.
We must be very aware that at this point in our history the government—the organism that was trusted with protecting the American people—has merged with the corporate oligarchy and now serves the corporations and not the people. The government can no longer be trusted with the needs and the security of the people. We are at a point, in which if the corporate state, sees millions of people threatening the rich, the government will use any tactic or method to eliminate any threat posed by the workers, academics, activists, unemployed, youth and the elderly. We have reached the stage of fascism in this country!
