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Every Government on Earth Claims to be Democratic

It’s Bullshit of course; moreover the Authoritarian Corporate Capitalist neo-Fascist Oligarchies attempt to conceal what some Perceive to be a Shadow Government (aka “The Deep State”)?

               

By JR, March 2025

It would seem that switching political parties and governing entities have little or no impact on the lives of ordinary tax-paying citizens. For example, there are certain select few who if sufficiently wealthy pay little or no taxes by securing their assets in offshore tax havens facilitated by our corrupt banks that have long been exempt from the rule of law. Then there are those wealthy institutions and people who are exempt from property tax such as the super rich via their many loopholes (after all, these rich people wrote the laws to suit their interests) and lucrative business such as the Christian Church corporations that pay no property tax and their CEO preachers who pay no income tax. What are the origins and bases of these special privileges and exemptions? Why does belief in the puerile supernatural phantoms have any relevance for tax exemptions? And how do I sign up; would having an imaginary friend such as an invisible pink unicorn or an all-powerful deity like the delusional monotheistic religions be sufficient?

Surely anyone with a spinal cord knows elections are essentially irrelevant to any notion of freedom and justice, another mere commodity, in this case the best “democracy” money can buy. And the multi-millionaires, billionaires, corporate oligarchs and mafia bankers who finance the elections and control the media, whether liberal, conservative or lame duck social democrats [1], want remuneration and payback for their investment in the farcical electoral process. Given Robert Michel’s Iron Law of Oligarchy and typically widespread human immorality, ignorance and stupidity, perhaps as Simone Weil brilliantly argued in the 1930s, political parties should be abolished. Since it’s patently obvious honest elections and real bottom up democracy do not exist anywhere in the world, never have existed and will not exist in a world that has been rendered FUBAR. It would seem that a randomized lottery system (sortition) might be preferable to a representative democracy than the undemocratic manipulated money driven corporatized elections with corrupt political parties and vile ideologies. A few decades ago a group in Canada formed The Rhinoceros Party in order to spoof and highlight the corruption and preposterous nature of the entire process of rigged money driven elections in Canada which differs little from other countries throughout the world by claiming to be “democratic”. The ugly truth regarding the immoral dogma of capitalism is that it is not at all democratic or just, but violates most long standing ethical principles such as the golden rule, a minimalist requirement for any civilized society.

What we currently have throughout most of the world is the grim fact of at least 50% of people living in abject poverty which can only be best described as a failed capitalist simulacrum of “democracy”. Capitalist states are rather oligarchies/plutocracies controlled by three or four farcical authoritarian political parties which when elected change very little that affects the ravages, theft and exploitation of capitalism that resembles a cancerous tumour on the entire planet. And the silver spoon pampered people born into privilege who produce nothing but manipulate stock markets and financial instruments primarily with algorithms (that execute most of the trades) own pretty much all of the world’s wealth. The United States of MAGA is one of the most unjust and unequal jurisdictions on the planet with one-tenth of 1% owning more wealth than the bottom 90%. It has no universal health care for its citizens, a dismal education system and had the world’s worst outcomes in dealing with the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Yeah let’s get on board the MAGA peace train; but when was the USA and its one trillion dollar annual military budget or any other country like “Great” Britain every “great”, however defined? If “great means murderous imperialist and colonialist wars perhaps it has some meaning.

Everything within capitalism’s recent mutation these days has been reduced to financial manipulation via gangster Godzilla Kamikaze capitalism where anything goes as long as a profit can be made by a larcenous mafia bank, “entrepreneur” (aka con man) or huckster asset management/hedge fund firm. This now includes barbaric spectacles such as UFC and mindless money losing distractions such as lotteries and gambling on professional sports which can be done not just at a brick and mortar casino but now on a cell phone. It’s theft pure and simple. Thank you Ron Ray Gun, Maggie Thatcher and Lyin’ Brian “On the Take” Mulroney, thanks for nothing except billions of uneducated buffoons, widespread stupidity and lack of self discipline and moral principle, militarism, deregulation, environmental devastation, grotesque global economic inequalities, rampant species extinction, poverty and debt – all three of the aforementioned calcified conservative and Ayn Rand hyper capitalists primarily responsible for the arm pit dysfunctional societies and death wish economy we are locked into. Capitalism failed badly in 1929 leading to the Great Depression lasting 30 years, followed by multiple economic recessions and the orchestrated debacle of 2007-09 when the global economy was demolished by the criminal banking ogres and other unaccountable financial parasites who were bailed out with golden parachutes as trillions of dollars emerged from a few mouse clicks at central banks worldwide. And these scum bag cockroach assholes are back in business screwing the docile dumb and dumber masses once again complete with imperialist wars, carnage and endless looting. We were told these bastards were “too big to fail” as they were gifted with “get out of jail free” cards. Yes folks; money talks and bullshit walks!  Sadly most of the unthinking docile voting public believed these fairy tales in the same way they believe all the superstitious religious mumbo jumbo pounded into their heads as they emerged from the womb.

Economic conditions are so grim that fifty percent of people over 30 still live with mommy and daddy as homelessness has become an epidemic, prison populations are exploding and the education systems from K-12 and unaffordable business model universities have been corporatized, anti-intellectualized and de-cultured. Your Mickey Mouse MBA (Master of Bullshit and Asshole) isn’t worth jack shit!

Five months after Donald Trump’s first disastrous dictatorship at the White House in 2017, a reporter apparently asked Vladimir Putin about the dubious allegations that Russia had interfered in U.S. elections. After all, Trump in a brief rare utterance of lucidity had proclaimed that “it would be nice if we got along with Russia” during his campaign as members of the Russian Parliament (The Duma) celebrated his eventual victory with champagne toasts. But Putin, one of many inside and outside the former USSR, is now a billionaire who looted his country’s public assets. Putin, I dare say, is one of the most astute and intelligent political leaders on the planet (Trump is a cognitive dwarf in comparison), quickly dismissed the notion since, after all, what’s the point in interfering in an election farce in a country even more corrupt than his own?

As the great anarchist Emma Goldman once said, “If elections changed anything they would be declared illegal”.

Although American war criminal presidents come and go [2], Putin rightly claimed plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose - nothing ever really changes. “And do you know why, he queried? Surely it must be because of the powerful bureaucracy of obscenely wealthy empty suit sycophants, con men, hucksters, bull shitters and influence pedlars. When a person is elected, he/she surely may have some ideas – and they do – “what we say goes” to use an expression from one of Noam Chomsky’s books on US dominance of NATO and its massive bloated military – and about $35 trillion in outstanding federal debt. As Putin remarked, sooner or later boring intellectual mediocrities representing wealth and power with briefcases arrive, well dressed corporatist and banking automatons typically black or dark-blue suits with boring neck ties. These people start explaining how things are done and poof, instantly everything changes back to the normalcy of oligarchic piracy, endless wars and pillage. This is what happens with every administration.” It matters little what country on our contaminated dystopian garbage dump planet to which you are referring.

Even the conservative rag The Financial Times and its columnist Edward Luce summed up the existing trepidation under the headline Trump’s demolition of the American state, comparing Trump to Caligula, who “killed what was left of the Roman state and centralised authority in himself.” Even the boring periodical of pap The Atlantic, an ever-reliable signpost of calcified conservative elite opinion, forecast “a constitutional crisis potentially worse than the shameless Watergate scandal” of the tricky Dick Nixon/Kissinger era. Trump’s choice of appointees, derided by the New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie as a “set of cranks, charlatans and apparatchiks,” confirmed the widespread belief that Trump poses an existential threat to the USA. And Project 2025, the more-than-nine-hundred-page fantasy horror story wish list of right-wing and neo-fascist policy proposals by the far right wing conservative Heritage Foundation, was invoked by the Democrats in the 2024 election as a dire warning of what a second Trump victory would entail. But this ought to have surprised no one; after all they elected the semi-literate village idiot George W Bush twice. What does this say about the Americans who voted for this moronic bumbling ghoul called “W” and now the psychopathic moral degenerate monstrosity Donald Trump who has surrounded himself with pompous ass unethical creep neo-Nazis such as Leon Skum? Surely anyone who drives an ugly Tesla these days must wear a disguise.

Notes:

[1] The late great Canadian economist John Kenneth Galbraith once declared that, “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness “. This allegation can now be applied to not just conservatism, but liberalism which has been a dead in the water rotting corpse for several decades. The primary 19th century philosopher of Liberalism, who wrote On Liberty, was John Stuart Mill. He must be rolling over in his grave; but also this is the case with social democratic parties such as the NDP in Canada and Labor Party in the UK which abandoned their founding principles of socialism many decades ago. They embraced “reformism”, the notion of capitalism with a human face which has been proven a failure over and over. The revolutionary socialists (aka communists) have been proven to be right about the beast of capitalism – it will adapt to anything to save its sorry ass by cooptation, nauseating bailouts when they destroy economies and adaptation to fascism as capitalists have done in the past and is doing now. Many conservatives have become full blown fascists and certainly had little or no problem with Hitler and Mussolini almost century ago, having facilitated their rise to power.

[2] As Noam Chomsky points out, every American President since 1776 has been a corrupt SOB and war criminal.

  

                                                                   

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