oftwominds | The Left is morally and fiscally bankrupt, devoid of coherent solutions, and corrupted by
its embrace of the Corporatocracy.
History often surprises us with unexpected ironies. For the past century,
the slide to fascism could be found on the Right (conservative, populist,
nationalist political parties).
But now it's the Left that's descending into fascism, and few seem to even
notice this remarkable development. By Left I mean socialist-leaning, progressive,
internationalist/globalist political parties.
What is fascism? There is no one tidy definition, but it has three essential
elements:
1) State and corporate elites govern society and the economy as one unified class.
2) This status quo (i.e. The Establishment) seeks to impose a conformity of
values and opinion that support the dominant narratives of the status quo via
the mass (corporate) media and the state-controlled educational system.
3) Dissent from any quarter is suppressed via mass-media ridicule, the judicial crushing and
silencing of whistleblowers, and all the other powers of the central state: rendition,
extra-legal imprisonment, political gulags (in our era, disguised as drug-war
gulags), character assassination, murder by drone, impoverishing dissenters via
firings and blacklists, and on and on.
The Left is now the political wing of the corporatocracy.
As Phillipe Poutou, a Ford factory mechanic from Bordeaux who is the sole
working-class candidate in France's presidential election, so deliciously
pointed out, the Left and Right status quo candidates are indistinguishable in
terms of their self-serving corruption and elitism:
Mechanic-Candidate Bursts French Political Elite's Bubble (NY Times)
Here in the U.S., the self-serving Democratic Party elites operate within the
Corporatocracy structure, in which the state protects and funds private-sector cartels;
the two intertwined and self-reinforcing elites manifest and enforce state policies.
