You'll see the word "corporacracy" in a lot of my posts. As I've never seen this word, I'm under the impression that I coined it.
I've created a dictionary type of definition for the word (I actually added it to my MS Word personal dictionary so that it isn't underlined in red when I use it).
Corporacracy (co-por-AC-racy)
n. pl. coporac-racies
1. A word combining "corporation" and "aristocracy".
2. Government by CEOs and top executives of global corporations.
3. Global corporations, considered the primary source of political power.
4. Wealth rules
5. The principles of gross financial inequality and fear of global corporations.
6. The reason the top 5% of the population control over 40% of the wealth.
7. A government that, by blatant disregard for humanity and the environment, is causing the American "middle class" to shrink, fading into an almost poverty level existence. They do this by taking advantage of the "middle class's" apathy and its addiction to fossil fuels.
8. A government that buys figure head leaders, known as "presidents". These "leaders" are called Republicans and Democrats. Members of the shrinking "middle class" still embrace a fantasy which leads them to write editorial letters debating the differences between the two "parties". They are still under the false impression that there are only two "political" parties existing in the US.
9. The Corporacracy controls colonies in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Central and South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Its sole rule of governance is to create money which creates more money.
We have ceased to be a democracy. Global corporations have turned the entire world into a Corporacracy.
The US has the highest CEO to worker income ratio in the world. The ratio is over 475 to 1.
Have we gone too far? Is this still just plain old free enterprise, fair capitalism or is it becoming more like Bourgeoisie vs. Proletariat.
What perpetuates this situation is that we "elect" presidents and legislators, Democrats, Republicans, it doesn't matter, who owe The Corporacracy big time for the $$$$ they received during the so called election campaigns. So, our vote doesn't count because we are not voting for the liar who is running, we are voting for the special interests to which they are bound.
Again, have we gone too far? Can you still call what is happening free enterprise/capitalism or is it just plain greed? Are we shooting ourselves in the foot for a select few? And, if so, how do we get the word to the American people that the Democratic and Republican parties are owned by The Corporacracy? And, if we get them to understand that, how do we, the working class, change it?
By ignoring the Democrats and Republicans in 2008, if not sooner!
A few nights ago, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn of South Carolina told Keith Olbermann that he'd begun to use the word "corpocray" after the recent Supreme Court give away of our democracy. He told Olbermann that it's a word one wouldn't find in a dictionary, but, if one googled it, one would get a lot of hits.
Well, if one googles "corpocracy" or even corporacracy, one will be asked if the intended word is corporotacracy. Corporatocracy, I believe, may have even been used by Mussolini in describing the fascist state he envisioned for Italy.
It's true that corporacracy, a word I began to use and will continue to use, "corpocracy" or corporotacracy won't be found in a dictionary.
Earlier in this article, I mentioned, parenthetically, that Orwell was a genius. This is a characteristic which I'm certain that the aforementioned Eric Arthur Blair and I do not have in common. However, as I read my 2004 post, I couldn't help wishing that, instead of writing for a small and obscure poetry message board at the time, I was writing oped pieces for The New York Times or The Washington Post. It would have been easier to answer the question ""how do we get the word to the American people that the Democratic and Republican parties are owned by The Corporacracy? And, if we get them to understand that, how do we, the working class, change it?"
If more people were aware of The Corporacracy in 2004, would The Supreme Court have made such an egregious decision on Thursday, January 21, 2010?
