America’s Raw Story
7th
Post
Subjugated
Americans
with their
Minuscule
Liberty Quotients
Under the Screws of
the Corpocracy
Liberty
Quotient of the Subjugated
Self Power/Corpocracy
Power
·
autocracy
·
bureaucracy
·
corpocracy
·
democracy
·
kleptocracy
·
mobocracy (yes,
it’s a word)
·
monocracy
·
plutocracy
·
technocracy
·
theocracy
·
timocracy
The word “corpocracy” hasn’t
made it yet into the dictionary, unlike the other “cracies,” or into public
conversations as far as I know.1 “Cracy” is derived from the Greek
“kartia” for power. The corpocracy exemplifies regime power, the getting of
more and more of it and the continuous abuse of it in serving its own interests
at a terrible cost to public interests and the common good. Power, but a very
different kind of power, is also a defining characteristic of “democracy.”
There is such an inherent
conflict between these two “cracies” that they can’t co-exist in the same
nation and they don’t coexist in America. In America the corpocracy rules with
tyrannical-like power. The self-ruling democracy power of the people has been
taken from the people.
The Devil’s
Marriage
Where did the
power of the people go?
To a marriage
made in Hell did it flow.
Leaving
democracy in the lurch,
Jilting
Americans and much worse.
Not a Shotgun Wedding
The marriage was anything but
a shotgun wedding. It was a wedding for the sake of mutual “badvantages”
(advantages for all sorts of bad behavior, legal and illegal). Both partners compromised (some critics might
say “corrupted”) each other. Both got huge, unending dowries. Corporations
(most but not all are U.S. corporations) get almost on a daily basis “power and
profit gifts” in the form of favorable legislation, favorable regulations and
deregulations, favorable judicial verdicts, welfare handouts, impunity from
lawlessness, military help in global exploitation, and laissez-faire
capitalism. And what do the politicians get? The Capital Hill bunch (aka
“Corporate Hill”) gets career employment in plush offices. The oval office
puppets get brief prestige and mostly posturing power. And the robed bench
sitters for life get to rule in favor of the corporate interests that helped to
get them appointed. The first dowry far overshadows the second but neither
partner can afford a divorce. They will stick together through thick and
thin.
Self-Rule:
Not in a Corpocracy
Self-rule is synonymous with democracy. It
represents both a moral and a practical balance between the anarchy of no
governance, or extreme individualism, on the one hand, and totalitarianism, or
oppressive governance, on the other. Self-rule by 99% can’t exist in a corpocracy.
Self-Rule and Our Life’s Equations
In a true democracy people in
all walks and stations of life have self-rule or as much control as possible
over their life equations. You, me, everyone has the same general equation. It
may just be the most important non-mathematical equation anyone will ever see
in their lifetime:
Our Selves + Our Situations = Whether/How Much
Health, Happiness,
and
Prosperity
We Have or Don’t Have
In a true democracy the
outputs on the right side amount to an optimum level of general welfare for all
Americans, not just the wealthiest ones.
In a corpocracy, the equation
is much different. The corpocracy has considerable power and control over most
Americans’ life’s equations and thus their general welfare. Here is what the
equation looks like today for all but the wealthiest Americans:
Our Selves + The
Corpocracy = Much, Much Less
Health, Happiness, and Prosperity
for
Most of Us
“Life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness” and the “promotion of the general welfare” the American
Constitution promised us are more than “just” declarations of the sanctity and
importance of our life’s equations. It’s an affirmation of humanity and support
for the general welfare in a civilized society.
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