fake_french said:
So if governments stayed small corporations wouldnât try to hijack them? God, Iâm so sick of this rightist claptrap. Why do libertarians and other right wing crackpots come to CommonDreams anyway? Thereâs nothing for you here, just trust that your capitalist heroes are winning the day, regulations are falling everywhere, soon youâll have the freedom to piss in the GMO-encrusted cereal of your slaves and legally obligate them to eat it. Your ilk will destroy the world soon enough in your blind loyalty to Merka and the almighty dollar. Congratulations. Freedom.
TJ says:
Thatâs right fake french,
Now youâve got it. Small, LOCAL government wonât be corrupted by Wall Mart and will block them from building their slave stores in the town, since small LOCAL government knows Wall Mart will kill off countless small businesses in the area and throw every local person into poverty in the long run, since Wall-Street-Mart never pays any workers or taxes at all.
Your HUGE centralized Federal Government that you love so much, will send the FBI and NSA after âactivistsâ who are getting in the way of Wall Streetâs eternal war against Main Street. The crushing of Unions, Co-ops, Local Banks and protests are ample evidence of this. FOIA tells us that FBI catalogued âOccupy Wall Streetâ as domestic terrorists and made plans (never executed) to have snipers take out peaceful protestors.
This is your huge Phucking Federal Government model that you love so much.
Where I think you go wrong, is you assume that the government and Wall Street are different things.
They arenât any more! They are one in the same. Ralph Nader says the line between government and Big Business is completely blurred. Wall Streets CEOâs and henchmen float back and forth, complete with their golden parachutes and glaring conflicts of interest, and Uncle Sam Smiles wickedly at the whole charade. The Raiders rob us in broad daylight without any SEC, DOJ or RICO worries for the Racketeers to worry about, since the Feds are corrupted by Washington Lobbyists. No government at all is better than the illusion of regulation.
When thereâs this much gangrene smell in the room, radical surgery is necessary. Of course, the same time we amputate Washington D.C. we must amputate Wall Street also. Will the patient called Unregulated Capitalism survive? God I sure hope not, but anything is possible.
Common Dreams is about common ground between all citizens. We will never be a force to be reckoned with if we run off the third largest party: The Libertarians or even Right-Wingers who are just now plucked out of the Boob-Tube Matrix and looking for answers at one of the only news outlets that tells the truth. The point they make is a good one. The opposite of the current Totalitarian government we suffer under is Anarchy or Libertarianism. We should shift away from the 1984 hellscape we are now in toward less control of the individual and less protection of the Corporate Hydra by the state.
TJ