Our corpocracy's international war criminals, in other words, go scot free, escaping legal accountability up to and including their natural death.
Lawsuits against corporations are relatively common but affordable, simply the price of "anything goes" business. In the case of RJ Reynolds, for example, a widow won a $26.3 billion lawsuit against it.28 The tobacco giant will stay in business with a dependable supply of addicted customers. Walmart is a lightning rod for lawsuits against it yet I doubt they will ever bankrupt the company.
Lawsuits against deep-pocketed Corporate America are unlikely, therefore, to bring it to its knees. Furthermore, Government America has built a number of shields against accountability such as limited liability, corporate personhood, anemic tort law, non prosecution, deferred prosecution, etc., etc. for its Corporate America masters.29 Additionally, corporations have learned the unethical maneuver of requiring customers of big ticket items to sign waivers prohibiting them from filing class action suits.30 As for the war industry, it seems totally unaccountable for its role in overt and covert war engaged in by its war addicted customer.
Political Initiatives
If most politicians were morally upstanding citizens there would be no corporacy ipso facto presto.
A day before the general election I tweeted this cynical tweet, "No surprise tomorrow. Two sides of same coin. Take your pick or flip it." The silent minority (losing the popular vote), angered over the establishment, took their pick. More of the same Oval Office behavior to follow I expect unless President-elect Trump means what he says. If he establishes a cordial relationship with Russia and begins reining in the military/industrial/political triumvirate I will tip my hat to the pickers.
In my Devil's Marriage book I discussed the following initiatives that conceivably could "close the corpocracy's political/judicial circus:" dump the party twins; revive progressivism; try deliberative democracy and also its derivative, direct decrees; create or revitalize an independent party; end politics as a career by instituting term limits for members of Congress; end campaign financing; out the touts (i.e., lobbyists); plug the burrowers' holes (i.e., giving outgoing political appointees civil service positions; lock the revolving doors and archways to prevent moving back and forth between political appointments and industry and lobbyist positions; knock down voting hurdles; shrink the big beast; restore justice to the corporatized courts; and pursue miscellaneous legislative reforms.31
A spot check of the literature shows that some of these initiatives have been tried, but none has really succeeded as intended. Dumping the party twins, for example, is a fanciful initiative. They never have been dumped by the electorate.
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