For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and a budget crisis looms at home is feeding into a longer-term pessimism about the country’s core institutions.
I know a lot of folks are going to say corpos want to destroy the government so they can have free reign, but I think that’s a bit naive. Corpos need the government. You see, the government as it is right now is completely captured, it protects corpos. It protects their interests. It protects their homes, their money, their assets. It doesn’t protect me or you, no, definitely not (unless you’re very wealthy).
My point is, their rampant corruption is causing the very thing that will lead to their own downfall, in time. By corrupting the government so much, they’re inadvertently leading everyone to loathe it. When the people eventually destroy the government due to desperation, there will be nothing left to protect those corpos in the ensuing chaos. For some, it won’t matter, their dozen-some-odd houses across the globe will provide redundant sanctuary options. But many of those empires’ home bases will lie in ruin, and I’m sure foreign countries/rivals will jump on them in the aftermath once the US won’t be around to protect them with unfair treaties.
To me, this is poetic irony. Terrifying, but poetic nonetheless.
When you look at their goals for what they’re trying to do, they do want the government to protect their interests, and nothing else. They want an army and a police force, and everything else the government does they want dismantled. To accomplish the latter they must convince the public that the government is bad and can’t help them. That’s why the government always does little enough and less that’s helpful whenever Republicans take power.
I know a lot of folks are going to say corpos want to destroy the government so they can have free reign, but I think that’s a bit naive. Corpos need the government. You see, the government as it is right now is completely captured, it protects corpos. It protects their interests. It protects their homes, their money, their assets. It doesn’t protect me or you, no, definitely not (unless you’re very wealthy).
My point is, their rampant corruption is causing the very thing that will lead to their own downfall, in time. By corrupting the government so much, they’re inadvertently leading everyone to loathe it. When the people eventually destroy the government due to desperation, there will be nothing left to protect those corpos in the ensuing chaos. For some, it won’t matter, their dozen-some-odd houses across the globe will provide redundant sanctuary options. But many of those empires’ home bases will lie in ruin, and I’m sure foreign countries/rivals will jump on them in the aftermath once the US won’t be around to protect them with unfair treaties.
To me, this is poetic irony. Terrifying, but poetic nonetheless.
You just summed up why capitalism will always eat itself.
When you look at their goals for what they’re trying to do, they do want the government to protect their interests, and nothing else. They want an army and a police force, and everything else the government does they want dismantled. To accomplish the latter they must convince the public that the government is bad and can’t help them. That’s why the government always does little enough and less that’s helpful whenever Republicans take power.