Is there not this splendor that is Washington D.C. Just the bureaucratic vastness of it all “Inside the Beltway.” Our nation’s capital is a world within itself. Since the end of the second World War, it has grown to the point of being unrecognizable to the everyday citizen. The mere expense of government flabbergasts people, and the number of individuals or functionaries that serve our?government is inconceivable to most Americans.
There are thousands of lawyers and lobbyist that call our nation’s capital their home and workplace. Congress has staff members that?number well over 35,000 employees. It’s this sense of vastness that has caused many Americans to have a negative view of Washington D.C. The various servants of government flatter one another, blame one another, strike poses together, issue bills together, make announcements together, the list is endless.
What has transpired from all this bureaucracy and vastness is a government of Fascism, Oligarchy, and Plutocracy.
Looking at our present political environment we see echos of the 1800’s and 1920’s. The Koch Brothers have raised millions of dollars by themselves and with the help of about 300 other ultra rich Americans in their efforts?to essentially hijack our American democracy. Our research has found that what we see today was very similar to what was happening in America in 1799. During the John Adams presidency, we saw democracy giving way to the elites of that period and, of course, there was the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798.
“A series of laws known collectively as the Alien and?Sedition??Acts?were passed by the Federalist Congress in?1798?and signed into law by President Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote.”
It’s important to note that this elitist Act was overturned by the Thomas Jefferson Administration in the early 1800’s. Thomas Jefferson and his political ideology were paramount in reversing the slide to Oligarchy back then, and boy do we need another Thomas Jefferson to reappear now in our governance.
We had another slide towards Oligarchy in the 1920’s. Under the Harding Administration. Harding ran on the platform of more business in government and?less government in business, deregulation and privatization. Sound familiar? In 1920, they deregulated the banks. The Stock Market exploded and then crashed in 1929. After that, the Great Depression. What is worth noting here is the Oligarchs had complete control of the economy and our government at the time just like right now in America.
History Does Repeat Itself In Politics
“They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest.”
Written by: VP Henry Wallace in 1944
Today the Koch Brothers and their Oligarch buddies are the prime examples of spokespersons for monopoly and vested interest. To obtain this goal, Oligarchs must capture the political power that is and has been these faction’s primary objective throughout American history. In our world?right now,?this very same goal is being thrust upon us by the Oligarchs of today. History does repeat itself in politics, and by using the power of the State and the free markets in conjunction, a few elitists can control the world today.
What is the one thing that keeps them in check??We The People? Government regulation is the one thing that can keep these Vulture Capitalists from destroying our democracy, our middle-class, and our air, river, and streams. By obtaining both the power of the markets and the state these factions can dictate to We The People, whether we like it or not. In a phrase, they want us under their eternal subjection.
After the 2014 mid-term election, Republicans gained more power in state legislatures than any other time in their party’s history. This power goes back to the time of Lincoln. The GOP currently?control 69 of 99 state chambers in the country. This control is more than at any other time in American history.?This power has manifested itself because of the money influence that has been allowed free reign by legal proclamations like Citizen United, and the all out attack on our civil rights to vote. You can track this behavior back to the Powell memo in 1971.
In 1980, David Koch ran for Vice President on the Libertarian Party ticket and lost. Now, the Kochs and their billionaire buddies want to control everything. In fact, their money today has more power than any vice president would ever have in a million years. So, what are these Oligarchs doing with this power today? For starters, they have built think tanks for the promotion of Plutocracy.
These goals by the billionaire class is a very real battle facing We The People. The future of our democracy is on the line. The future of the United States is on the line. Are we going to allow a select few billionaires to?control us or are we going to fight to save our middle class that made our country the real shining light on the hill? That’s the question we need to answer in the coming 2016 election. Are we going to allow our country to sink back to the times of the 1920’s that led to the Great Depression or are we going to rise and take back our country from the Oligarchs? Because there is one thing you can be sure of: “History Does Repeat Itself In Politics.”
