The merger of corporations and state government was an invention of Mussolini. When he brought it to Italy, he was advocating the creation of a single party state. He called it the Fascist State.
We now have it, too, thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling. Actually, thanks to George W. Bush and the Republican Party, we can now finally say we are finally living in a fascist United States of America.
And to think they were worried that it would be Obama and the Democrats who would be bringing us that little gift. They don’t even know what the word “fascist” means, not surprisingly.
But I also blame Obama for what’s happened. He didn’t fight the Republicans in the legislature, hasn’t gone after the Bush administration to seek any kind of punishment, and hasn’t fought hard enough to create the kind of change he promised (like green energy jobs, bringing home the troops, closure of Gitmo, etc.).
The Bush administration and the Republicans in power left us a giant, flaming mess. And I really hate sounding as if I’m upset because it hasn’t been fixed. I’m actually really happy with the Democrats who’ve been pushing hard for the progressives (like Kucinich, Boxer, Wexler, Feingold, etc etc). But I’m really upset that they also keep buckling to any kind negative media press, refusing to fight back and stand up for their party’s constituents.
We need an FDR Democrat in office – not a Clinton Democrat. We need Obama to say “I *hope* Wall Street bankers, Big Oil, Big Pharma, and Bush Criminals are afraid of me – Instead of saying “I’m willing to put the past behind us and look the other way.
About Ginger
About me...let's see...
I guess I'm just another tree-huggin', commie, Cheetos-eating, pajama-wearing, unemployed blogger.
I'm anxious and vainly optimistic about where the country is headed, and openly dreaded the day Bush ever came into political office...I''m not happy about having a party filled with spineless "oh we need to cherish the blue dog dems" ...but I'm also glad that we are finally moving away from the cliff we were all teetering on for the past decade.
What bothers me most is the fact that too few people today understand how incredibly dangerous our government has become or how unreliable and weak our news sources are. I'm not just talking about Fox. I'm talking about the bulk of the mainstream media. It's not liberal - and it's certainly not fair or balanced. My kind of news reporting was the kind I grew up in the 70s, and clearly remember a time when the so-called liberal media was all about reporting the cold, hard facts, filled with investigative journalism, and anchors or reporters who refused to do fluff pieces - like cats stuck in trees, water-skiing squirrels, and Darwin-award-winning idiots who would do anything to make themselves into a news story. Being a reporter meant something more noble than a fat paycheck. You did your job because you wanted to get the truth out there. Now? You're mostly smeared or called a tin-foiled-hat-wearing lunatic of you find out - and expose - any kind of government or corporate corruption.
The upside of today's kind of media? Bloggers are a new breed of journalists - ready to hit the streets...err digital webspace... and have helped get a president elected, and a fascist dictatorship out of power.
