It’s easy to see why socialism is appealing. Too many of us have been taught that “unregulated capitalism” is causing inflation; and a whole generation is suffering a unified system of corrupt politicians and businesses working against them. They are in fact right to blame “corporate greed” and corrupt politicians for our nation’s ills. And they are right to criticize the misled conservatives and libertarians among us who think that “Public-Private Partnerships” and “privatization” are the panacea. On the other hand, the conservatives and libertarians who think that Big Government and socialism are to blame, are right, too. Democrats are right to blame corporations for buying our politicians, while Republicans are right to blame politicians for selling us to corporations. There is common ground among all of us if we’d wake up to one very simple misunderstanding that has led to catastrophic consequences: Corporations are not humans. Corporations are, in fact, government.
Corporations are, like government, legal, collective abstractions. They are chartered, regulated, empowered and protected by government laws for mostly good reasons. But corporations were foolishly and controversially bequeathed “human rights” in the 1886 Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. While most corporations are still beneficial, the difference between some corporations, and organized crime, is little more than some paperwork, and campaign donations that are made above, as opposed to under, the table. And the “Public-Private Partnerships” actually (not exaggerating or making this up) fit a large part of Mussolini’s definition of fascism – the bundling, or fastening of socialism, nationalism and corporatism. A hand-in-glove crony system of political armed force and greed with collectivized risk and “privatized” profit. And it gets worse.
A few ominous government surveillance programs like “Total Information Awareness” had been rightly shelved. But they were then “privatized” with CIA funding and technology in the ominous form of, for example, Palantir Technologies Inc, Google and Oracle. Dystopic DOD programs have been updated by the sci-fi dystopic Anduril Industries, and SpaceX, as well as the usual “Military-Industrial Complex” and “Scientific-Technological Elite” corporations that Eisenhower warned us against.
Politically powerful Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Food, and perhaps most egregiously lately, asset management corporations like Blackrock, State Street and Vanguard, along with a certain foreign government colluding with the “Deep State,” have bought out, taken over, and stolen, our nation’s wealth, health, security and freedom.
Almost all of us understand that our government is corrupt. Most of us see the obvious relationship between campaign donations and their results in governance. Very few of us, however, vote like we know any of that. And so, only a tiny few of us in any way oppose what I believe is the biggest political threat we humans have ever faced – a very quickly unfolding AI-powered dystopia ruled by a universally global network of billionaire technocrats who espouse a Malthusian, eugenicist/ transhumanist “dark enlightenment.” Many of the “tech bros” ominously refer to creating the “Antichrist,” “Mark of the Beast,” and even the ancient Golem myth – a man-made slave monster that turns on its makers. But, “you will own nothing, and be happy.”
Our new ruling class is, in other words, howling-at-the-moon crazy.
I suggest the following:
- Recognize that We The People, overwhelmingly, voted for this mess. We didn’t have to. And we don’t have to in the future.
- Vote against it. Fire incumbents; both the politicians and the parties’ corruption networks, follow the money, and vote for only those who don’t, in very real terms, work against you.
- Actively search for better representatives; ones who promote sound, constitutional money, peace, and sound technology (e.g., permissionless blockchain, instead of “stablecoins” and total surveillance and control). Talk them into running, or run yourself. Use our Power of Peaceful Revolution as intended, at long last.
- Only if this doesn’t work, should we discuss Plan B.
Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
