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So what does it mean? The Supreme Court allows corporations to spend as much as they want on attack ads, and now we elect mindless corporately motivated morons to hold office. It means that one; we have a severe case of corruption where corporations can buy who they want to hold power, and two, that our voting population is uneducated easily manipulated idiots.Corporations merely have to take over the media and spew a bunch of nonsense, and people being completely mindless believe every single word of it. They merely have to put a bunch of slick ads on the TV and people think it's real. The Muslim bating nonsense about a mosque near "ground-zero" was simply a publicity stunt for the next moronic war with Iran. It also created lots of paranoia, enough to make people vote for conservative individuals who really had nothing going for them.
The Rugged Individual wants something for nothing by Starla Immak
Americans believe they have the right to get something for nothing. They think that they should pay little and have lots of something. They never want to pay for anything. They think that we can have expensive wars for corporations, and we don't have to pay for it. Of course, the mindless American thinks that war is about some far off boogie man, while little realizing that it is simply a means to take resources by force from another. Roads and schools magically appear and no one pays for them. Americans prefer the shortsighted cheap strategy over the long sighted expensive one. Taxes that pay for things are unpopular due to this basic sense of entitlement by the average American.
With the tea party in power we will simply borrow more from China and make more war. I am not sure China will cooperate forever after all; they just want to make a quick buck off the US. If they see they can't make money off of the U.S. anymore, Americans will be out of luck. They do not want to cut war funding, because that helps our corporations out. They will cut domestic funding leaving our infrastructure in disrepair, and leaving the poor starving on the streets.
Americans tend to believe the whole "rugged individualist" idea and they think people ought to pay everything for themselves while not understanding that some basic infrastructure is socially owned. For example while walking my broken bike at night across the road from a man's house the other night, the individual in the house wanted to shoot me. It's his property after all. No. I reminded him that I was not on his property and simply trying to get home. The road is a community property. Water is community property. Not everything is individually owned. In Tennessee a man's house burned to the ground because he didn't pay his fee. The sense of community is sorely lacking in this country.
Corporations have taken advantage of these two ideas embedded into American thinking. Something for nothing, and the rugged individual. How? They get to be non tax paying entities due to the "something for nothing" idea, and they get to charge everyone and privately own every bit of infrastructure due to the "rugged individual" idea. The media chant these ideas as a mantra ad nauseum to make sure that we do not forget them.
The "something for nothing" idea never works. Let's take these Big Box stores for example. They like to pay their workers cheap and get things from China that are cheap. The type of individual who walks into the store tears the store apart and it literally requires more hired individuals to keep the store clean than it would if they had raised their prices. Go into a store with slightly higher prices and see that a few individuals can keep the store clean and no one has to stay at the door making sure that individuals in the store are stealing items. Why? The something for nothing crowd will not be there. Since the really "something for nothing" is free, meaning theft.
I would like to ask someone how we can "get something for nothing" while having to pay for everything as a rugged individual. It's a contradiction that helps the corruption remain in place in our government.
So what's going to happen with our situation in America? The corporations will still want to pay for a government that protects them and leaves the public at large floundering. I watched a documentary the other day that explained it very simply. In the documentary, "Collapse" the man being interviewed was asked what his spiritual beliefs are. He said, "Money is the root of all evil". People who are so greedy that they would destroy the planet and leave millions of people floundering in poverty are not fit to rule. They are corrupt. I think their greed will destroy them and American mindlessness will take this country down with them.
