La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for June 01, 2014

The most Serene Republic of Venice was an oligarchy. It lasted over a thousand years but the opening of the Americas shifted the balance to the West away from the Mediterranean basin. Napoleon got it without firing a shot in 1797.

The Republicans in congress are doing their job very well. If they can’t accomplish anything that Obama won’t veto, then they can stall so that the Democrats can’t accomplish anything either. Their intention is to keep everything just as it is, unless they can manage to return to the “good old days” of the 19th century, before there was a middle class and when only the landed gentry were voters. And, they have a great strategy for accomplishing this. 1. Disenfranchise everyone you possibly can, unless they are dependable Republican voters.2. Produce ads and media emphasis which emphasizes those politicians who are corrupt and incompetent. Paint all Democrats with the same slime. Lacking sufficient actual slime, simply make some up. This undermines the people’s trust in their government and makes them feel like helpless pawns, so they tune out the whole process and accept the status quo. 3. Support the “job creators”, who are the recipients of a huge portion of the GNP, although that GNP was produced by working people, who are receiving less benefit from it every day. This gives them the money to accomplish the other two goals, and leaves everyone except the “job creators” with increasingly less money to mount a counter campaign. So, this is the way we are going lose the middle class and become a country inhabited only by the very rich 1%, and a 99% who are too busy working two jobs to survive to notice.

We appear to be somewhere between plutoligarchy and idiocracy.

I t’sbad that most republicans don’t realize that a plutocracy is the political goal of all the filthy rich who are pumping 100s of thousands of $$$ to lie about what their real plans are and to spread lies about other politcians who disagree.Like Night Gaunt said “oligarchy=rule to the elite (the filthy rich) and a plutocracy is rule by the wealthy filthy rich”.He didn’t say by the filthy rich, but I believe that may be what he means, it is what I mean.

As usual, the Left fears the economic power of big business but doesn’t even blink at the physical might of big government. The argument for the separation of government and economics is for another time.