Citizens United

Excerpts from The Trump Diaries: The Destruction of Oversight

So what is the goal of the Republican party, coupled with corporations and religion?  Plain and simply put: the destruction of any and all oversight and the implementation of a plutocratic government, with autocratic tendencies.  In essence, the destruction of the American federal government.[i]

The volatile mixture of planned and orchestrated confusion, religious belief and the traditional viewpoint of American individuality amounts to a hatred of any oversight by any government.  This, in essence, is the argument made by corporations. 

With legal loopholes that allowed unregulated lobbying and Citizens United which allowed unlimited monies to buy governmental policies corporations no longer must adhere to the law.  Having the same rights as individuals corporations can, in essence “run for office” and they have as Donald Trump.  Now instead of having to adhere to law, the have the power to make law.  It is this power that destroys the government.

Donald Trump and the Republican movement are almost literally greed incarnate.  While it is not clear why the leader of a union would stand and support the Republican movement, it is clear what the end-goal of Donald Trump and the Republicans who support him is: the annihilation of the American Federal Government.

[i] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/this-is-how-the-republican-party-plans-to-destroy-the-federal-government/

Excerpts from The Trump Diaries: The Role of Money

The conservative movement, controlled by major corporations are the main, if not sole reason that the traditional ideals of America are being threatened and undermined, not only in the USA but in numerous countries.  The conservative movement that placed Trump and his administration into office is motivated by money, but money does not sell, ironically enough.  What does sell is unwarranted ideology. 

Patriotism, a popular/populist ideal, often signifies a love of country, but under the guise of the conservative movement and its religious affiliations, patriotism becomes less a love of country and more a fanatical support of one’s own country as defined by a particular ideology, in this case Christianity.

Nationalism is another useful ideology to the conservative movement.  Nationalism lowers the categorical criteria for making others your enemy.  The conservative party’s goal is, simply put, to create a corporatocracy using nationalistic overtones and religious ideologies to bolster the idea, much in the same way that Hitler did in Germany, making promises to a continually more desperate population made so by the very movement the population came to support. 

All of this seems to point to a particular attitude of apathy and even loathing towards the American public by corporations and their stockholders as well as the conservative movement.  The legitimacy of the Trump administration and the conservative movement that supports it hinges upon nothing more than empty, twisted laws.  The emperor has no clothes, but it is becoming against the law to point this out.

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