A Capitalist Running Capitalism?

 

 

A Capitalist Running Capitalism?    

 

It becomes clearer to more people everyday that Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” maneuvering and shaping market forces into being beneficial towards humanity has become a massive force of waste and destruction visibly giving humanity the finger in far more than symbolic ways. One of the materially obvious ones is Donald Trump once again being president of the United States. Some LibCons and ConLibs rejoice but most capitalists are near terrified, along with a general public manipulated but for once almost equal to a ruling class though only in fear.

 

The center of global capitalism has been imperial America since the end of the second world war and that ruling power is nearing its finish which cant come too soon and may mean ultimate destruction if it doesn’t happen soon enough. But this happening is not a matter of fate but of human action taken on behalf of humanity’s survival. Unfortunately, under the near total control of anti-social corporate media, millions of decent citizens are reduced to calling the American minority owned and operated society “our” democracy, totally swallowing the notion that being able to vote defines democracy.

 

When reminded, or just as likely learning for the first time, that the all encompassing boogie man Adolph Hitler came to power under supposed democratic election rules and not by shooting his way into power, as infantile political science teaches from grade school through college, they accept the notion that his evil was so great and powerful nothing could stand in his way. Much as naïve Americans think Trump winning an election for the second time was anti-democratically arranged by fascists who somehow materialize when things are going wrong anywhere and everywhere that capitalism rules. The lesser evil form of capitalism that ran the nation and much of the west after the end of WW2 was known as capitalist social democracy and it made life better for a broad section of the working class so that ruling wealth and their professional class servants would not face the danger of revolutions such as happened in Russia and China and were threatened in growing numbers of nations. That phase ended later in the 20^th century and became a return to alleged free market and austerity politics that saw much freedom for a minority class of capital and growing degradation for the great majority as previous government programs at least partly aimed at people who needed help mostly reverted to help for wealth to become more wealthy and in the inspired capitalist religious faith able to invest and thereby create more jobs and prosperity for the great unwashed, as advertisers and politicians often referred to the public.

 

Screeching about fascism without pointing out that it is the logical extreme of the system when it is in trouble as always neglects the basic point that the only connection between Hitler fascism in Germany and alleged Trump fascism in America is capitalism. In its local and global forms it is sinking into bloody degeneracy that humanity can see more clearly than ever, whether in Israel, Ukraine, Yemen or dozens of other places in Africa and Asia and Europe. Naturally, consciousness control works harder than ever to distract, misinform and lie, still successful among a shrinking number of mortals but failing fast among the majority paying for the wretched outcome of a tinier minority than ever lavishing in wealth while growing millions suffer physically and mentally.

 

 

 

 

Decent, well meaning and sincere Americans who refer to “our” democracy miss that it is a market commodity in which a we get what they pay for minority pays for and a majority suffer as parishioners at the Capitalist Cathedral where prayers are about as useful as belief in the hypocrisy that passes for “our” democracy. Our true belief and acceptance of the faith needs to end soon or all of us – true believers, agnostics, atheists, members of the WGAS minority and others – will pay the ultimate price of dying in a nuclear war, at worst, or suffer a slower death as nature in all its form succumbs to minority rule that reduces humans, earth, air and water to profit making consumables. Trump’s seeming blundering represents marketing at its near extreme with failure looming larger as does hope for humanity.

 

 

 

 

Voting is easier-and as meaningless as ever if not more so - than at any time in our crippled history. All one had to do was fill out a postcard and mail it postage free to have the right to vote for an employee or well-meaning stooge for capital. Black vote white vote testicle vote vagina vote etc. the voter is guaranteed unaffordable housing and healthcare while being allegedly represented by moral disgraces who rush to bury their faces in the crotch of banking, finance, Israel and the military murderers who make our alleged democracy smell like a combination of social vomit and political excrement. 

 

Trump’s assault on business as usual horror has introduced new techniques to do the same thing: create profits for a shrinking minority while increasing losses for the majority, which has reduced the upper professional class to near hysteria and their subjects to worse. Instead of the usual form of society being run for capitalism by its upper servant class it has an actual capitalist acting as CEO of the bloody corporation, this one having an ego beyond measurement accompanied by an intellect almost incapable of magnification. Yet while reducing most to panic he has pleased many by making sounds of peace in Ukraine even while increasing the menace of possibly the most insane, stupid, dumb thing imaginable: war with china.

 

The wider and more populated world is being brought closer by capital’s demise and this while the minority west is facing economic ruin and further social disgrace. Trump is a further sign of the end of empire and the hopeful beginning of a global population united by common interest that all of us should be assured of food, clothing and shelter before anyone can have so much more than is needed for survival as is the current case, with billionaires making more money while mass murder goes on in Palestine/Israel and more American live in the streets while our pets are guaranteed creature comforts and health care while more American humans suffer than during what was called the great depression. Since that time depression has become a moneymaker for the psych business but humanity will cheer up once it/we works together, for a change. Maybe we’ll ultimately thank Trump for helping to bring about the end of capitalism and the beginning of global democracy. Whatever and however, we need to unite as members of the one and only human race and speed up the process.