And of course--though legally and morally this is not supposed to be the case--one must include many elected officials, elected and unelected judges, and journalists in corporate-owned media--as unofficial members of the oligarch support industries. While Republicans are clearly worse, it's clear once again that these illegitimate members of the oligarch support industries are bipartisan--as was most recently proved by the eleven Democrat Senators (let's brand them "the Keystone Eleven") who were ready to surpass even Obama's service to fossil fuel oligarchs by taking approval of the environmentally insane Keystone XL pipeline out of his cowardly, dithering election-year hands. Clearly, these Democrats are prepared to use the fascist jackboot against conscientious Americans on behalf of fossil-fuel oligarchs, since thousands of heroic citizens are pledged to civil disobedience against the unconscionable pipeline.
While the "boot stamping a human face" approach, backed by fascist pro-government courts, has already been used against Occupy Wall Street, I suspect approval of the XL pipeline will show us fascism--Orwellian brutality supporting Piketty's increasingly dominant oligarchs--in its most blatant form. This will be, of course, because enough conscientious citizen have seen through oligarch propaganda to realize oligarch agendas threatens humanity's very survival. So bipartisan is the push for pro-oligarch fascism that eleven Democrats openly decided noble Keystone protesters deserved Orwellian brutality.
Until we widely disseminate the fact that Orwell is other side of Piketty--that a "boot stamping on a human face forever" is the logical conclusion of runaway economic inequality--we'll never (until we're ALL destroyed by climate change) see an end to illegitimate oligarch rule.
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