Downsize Democracy For 40 Years, Here's What You Get
http://www.alternet.org/economy/downsize-democracy-40-years-heres-what-you-getIf you are searching for significant anniversaries for 2015, one that you might find illuminating is the publication of a book published 40 years ago entitled The Crisis of Democracy.
The title would seem fitting today but that's not the crisis its authors had in mind.
The book was commissioned by a new international boys club of finance capitalists, CEOs, senior political figures (retired and active) and academics from Europe, North America and Japan. The Trilateral Commission (TLC) could be said to be the birthplace of neoliberalism, a political theory that suggests progress depends upon "liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets and free trade."
Alarmed by the spread of the liberal state and its economic and social interventions, the TLC was founded to reverse the welfare state and re-establish capital to its "rightful" place at the pinnacle of economic and political power. (It still exists but has been supplanted to some extent by the World Economic Forum.)
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This idea that it's only in the back of societies mind and we are going to be doing nothing about it for a while. Or as he has used this quote in his story [snip]Or, as Freud stated, we are "knowing without knowing."[snip]
Its not that people don't know but more of it has taken so long to get to this point that it's hard to get people to realize they are in the process of being screwed because it's being done so incrementally slow. And it would be no wonder why the effers on top are always trying to rewrite history and shutter journalism.
Some or many of us know and have been keeping track of what is going on, and it's a common fact that it only takes a small spark for the tinderbox
After two or three decades of seeing it in effect the world mostly sees how it works. Of those who are kind of polished, they will always try to put a little nuance on it, but pointing it how it's just much of the same is one of the fun points us commoners get.
It entertains me to watch them do all the backpedaling. It's also easy to notice those few with the many loose ends and much to loose because they are often the ones on the defensive. Roll in the tea party and we watch the potshots fly.
