People get needlessly confused by politics. With the right set of references, it’s not that difficult to get it right.
1) Politics is about power: how to get it and how to keep it.
2) Politics runs on money, because money is power.
3) Corporations and those enriched by corporations, are always the most powerful players.
4) Corporate money rules politics- especially since Citizen United, the supreme court decision that ruled corporations are individuals and can act like individuals in funding political activity.
5) Corporate money buys all politicians on the national level. It is not possible to be a national politician and not be a shill for corporate interests.
6) The greatest political rationalization on the national level is defense, defense against all enemies of the state, real and imagined. Politics thus largely centers on the imperative for supporting national defense. No politician can afford to be perceived as weak on national defense.
7) Thus the Spy and War Machine is the best funded and the most powerful actor in politics, in creating the national budget and in determining foreign policy. The Spy and War Machine exists to perpetuate itself for the enrichment of corporations and the politicians whose continued existence as politicians depends on corporate money.
8) This describes the emergence of the corporate state, which becomes more and more a paranoid militarized corporate state. Over time, it becomes a militarized fascist corporate state.
9) The militarized fascist corporate state must justify itself on the basis of patriotism, on the defense of the national good- which requires ever greater and greater expenditures on the militarized fascist corporate state- the Spy and War Machine, which is wholly devoted to the enrichment of corporate empire.
10) The militarized fascist corporate state is fully bipartisan; both parties- the “duopoly”, exist only to perpetuate the militarized fascist corporate state. But they maintain a semblance of opposition on relatively trivial matters- the culture wars, in order to justify the farce of democratic process.
