6. Congress and the administration have refused to tax the rich and begin to return our tax system back to a time when these income/wealth disparities were much lesser and there was a growing Middle Class. Oh sure, the Democrats like to "talk" about it and, of course, the Republicans want to openly cut taxes for the rich more. But neither political party wants to "Do" anything about it because they are owned by the corporatists. The Social Security system is simple to rescue and strengthen with a few changes including raising the cap on applied contributions above earnings of individuals earning about 100 thousand dollars each.
7. Congressional job approval ratings have recently been as low as 10%, the lowest in several decades. As recently reminded by some, Khadafi's approval rating in Libya was even 14% and I'm certain the approval ratings of many dictators and leaders in countries that we would like to invade or attack with our drones is much higher than that of our Congress. After all, the corporatists want to get their hands on the resources of these other countries and announce they are defending freedom.
8. Obama has continued Bush's policies of diminishing our basic civil rights (the Bill of Rights). That has included renewal of the Patriot Act, wireless wiretapping, and perhaps most ominously, passage of the NDAA with its indefinite detention powers even for Americans. He has added to that by claiming the right to assassinate those residing in foreign countries even if they are American citizens! These are all powers which would be demanded by a fascist state to halt any resistance to their policies even if protests are peaceful.
9. The Supreme Court gave a big boost to corporate fascism by its ruling in Citizen's United in January 2010 which declared corporations as "persons" and allowed them to give unlimited amounts of money to support candidates for election in the name of "free speech". Congress has refused to support a "disclose act" and, thus, corporations and wealthy individuals can do this in secret. The corporations and the corporatists were given a blank check to spend as much as they needed to gain control.
10. Thus, in my view, the system has become nearly totally corrupted. It is immoral, unethical and just awaiting its certificate of approval by an ignorant, uninformed and unknowing American public. Will it occur? I guess we'll have to observe, won't we? But I'm pretty sure Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison and other founders of this nation would not approve.
ELECTIONS AND THE ELECTION OF 2012
Thus, the stage is set for the next chapter in this political tragedy to proceed. In 2010 with many of the things listed above already being put in place, and under the pretense of Tea Party supporters (actually co-opted by the fascists), the "Republican Tea Party" emerged and managed to elect a 
majority of their members to Congress and to elect a number of Republican Governors to put their plans in motion. This happened with the complicity, ineptness and total impotence of the Democratic Party. At the state level,(I first wrote about this early in 2011) this included Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Florida, and Maine at the least, and several others leaning in this direction. In effect, what these corporatist forces had done was to advance their plans for a corporate coup of all branches of government at the national and state levels. They were aided by huge infusions of cash by a few billionaires (perhaps most notably the Koch Bros. two of the richest persons in America with a fascist heritage) and large corporations working with Pacs, Super Pacs and with "non profits" designed for these purposes with Karl Rove as one of the principal "architects". At the state level, an organization known as ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) funded by several large corporations began working full time to force government programs of all kinds to "cut" and funnel money to their corporate cronies to "privatize" as many things as they could. Incidentally, the term I have begun to adopt, the "Republican Fascist Party" was the name Benito Mussolini of Italy gave to his fascist political party he had been heading for many years and two years before his ultimate demise! One should not forget either that Adoph Hitler 
learned a lot from Mussolini even before this. Greg Palast has recently written a best selling book, "Billionaires and Ballot Bandits.." which describes how these same forces are rigging and buying our elections now.
Barack Obama emerged immediately after the 2010 election as an "enabler" or even a Trojan Horse for the fascists who had taken charge. While being continuously accused of being a "socialist" by his opponents he was quietly carrying out his actions to aid the corporatists. In the lame duck session, he agreed immediately to a continuation of the "Bush" tax cuts for the rich crying that he had been held "hostage" by the Republican Party, when in fact, he was behaving like Neville Chamberlain negotiating with Adolph Hitler to give up the complete mainland of Europe before WWII. The "Republican Fascist Party" which emerged from the 2010 election realized that they had encountered a very weak president. At that point, I wrote one of my first blogs of significance,"Obamanomics is Here; Houston we have a Problem!" At about that time, I also urged my new friend and colleague, Jill Dalton of NYC, to begin blogging and her first one entitled, "Is It Fascism Yet" was published in January 2011. Her work over the past two years has been recently published as an Ebook on Amazon. More on this will be said later.
Since the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has decided that the corporation is like a "person", let me provide you with two deadly physical diseases and one mental disease which will apply to corporate fascism. These are diseases that may be compared with the "body politic".
The first analogy I will use is one of the circulatory system, the flow of blood (money) within the economy. What happened in 2008 was analogous to a massive heart attack by Wall Street and the big banks accompanied by a stroke which also damaged the brain (government). Nearly 8 trillion dollars or more, equivalent to more than half of our annual gross domestic product (GDP) was removed from the system and the whole body suffered severely. Although the big banks received an enormous transfusion and an injection of blood, the arteries and the veins did not send it through the rest of the body. Thus, the organs began to suffer irreparable damage and the brain was not working from the stroke. The body is still in a critical condition, the heart is barely working and the brain is remaining near death, too. Michael Payne has 
recently written an article entitled, "Corporatism is Systematically Sucking the Lifeblood Out of America".
The second analogy of corporate fascism which applies is one of a massive bodily malignant tumor. When the heart attack occurred and "Dr. Bush" and "Dr. Obama" presumably examined the body politic and they uncovered the fact that the tumor had metastasized and spread throughout the body. These "doctors" treated the symptoms but did nothing to remove the tumor. Thus, it is still active and spreading throughout the body infecting every part of the body politic. The limbs, arms and legs, as represented by the states are now cancerous and nearly fully infected as well.
The third analogy is in a category of mental disease. We have succeeded in electing officials into positions of leadership with no moral fortitude, little or no ethical rules and totally motivated to enrich themselves and achieve personal power. Many of them might well be labeled as psychopaths, psychotics, or suffering from other serious mental disorders. They present themselves as public servants in campaigns but as they are either millionaires or have access to millionaires, their values are achievement of personal power and wealth. Proof: Nearly half or more of Congress people are millionaires. No one who is a common person has any chance of being elected; corporate media has assured that. A requirement for candidacy is that you be proficient at telling lies better than your opponent. In effect, the inmates have taken over the asylum. Does anyone really expect these people to represent the common person?
Either of these diseases can and will kill us and kill our Democratic Republic. Needless to say, we need to get some entirely new "doctors" to take charge and do so immediately. They do not exist within the two party system. This is a crisis and it will continue if there are no competent doctors called in to investigate and treat the disease and end this corporate fascism as soon as possible. This is the basic imminent danger and the basic threat which is awaiting us.
WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS FOR THE PEOPLE?
The immediate priority should be to attack the primary problem which has grown to disastrous proportions in our political system and is enabling and propagating the disease of corporate fascism! A primary focus of attention needs to be placed on breaking up or destroying the two party political duopoly. This is unlikely to occur in any kind of "normal" election because those who caused this problem and continue to promote it will not solve it. It must be done by actions of the people and here are some suggested or potential solutions, consistent with what others such as Chris Hedges has suggested in the first link and this one both published recently:
1. Support the Occupy movements which began in earnest in September 2011. Join them by attending and participating in their activities.
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