In his seminal book, Friendly Fascism, published in 1980, political scientist Bertram Gross predicts that a future America would be one where power elites continually dominate America’s government, specifically through corporatocracy and a light fascism. He writes:
“[R]eform measures provide a means of siphoning up political power. Where they involve new benefactions or new regulations, this can happen whenever their provision involves the setting up of a new or stronger bureaucracy. Any concrete benefits for people at the middle or lower levels of the social pyramid are balanced off with additional power or prestige at the top. This is why many reforms that may indeed be great victories for people at the middle and lower levels of society… turn out also to be a form of payola.”
We’ve already discussed how the president’s proposed job bill has less to do with creating jobs and more to do with delaying the double dip past the next election cycle, but there’s more to it. It should come as no surprise to anyone that the government’s primary purpose is not to represent the people, but to bring in campaign dollars using public money for corporate welfare. The question is not, “will the job bill centralize power in the corporatocracy?” Off course it will. The question was always about how. Now we know. Read More