New Word for the day: Corporatocrat

What we have infecting much of our government as well as much of our press today is an ideology we fought a revolution against 200 years ago. When the East India Corporation, based in England, began to undersell (through unfair tax policy) and thus monopolize the American colonial tea market, threatening to dominate that industry and then others, the way they were in India, entrepreneurs in these colonies recognized that danger and took action. The resulting new republic (read: representative democracy) created a nation of laws including those designed specifically to prevent the development and spread of the same cancer it had fought to rid itself of in revolution: the corporate aristocracy. Jefferson, Lincoln and both Roosevelts wrote extensively on the dangers of neglecting to maintain control over and limits on, the size and power of, corporate aristocracy. The new republic defined in the Constitution Began with the words "We, the People" to emphasize that this was a government to be run by representatives of the population at large, and not by or for an aristocracy, a theocracy, or a corporatocracy.

What we have occupying much of our government as well as much of our press today are not Democrats or Republicans, not Conservatives, not Liberals: they are, and represent only, the Corporate Aristocrats. They are Corporatocrats.

Cor-por-a-to-crats.

Otherwise known as Fascists, according to the definition given by Mussolini, the man who invented the word Fascism.

With that in mind, Gitmo, AbuGraib, ANWR, a cabinet of deregulatory industry-lobbyists, perpetual war and the continual dismemberment of programs designed to promote the general welfare , should be no surprise at all.

But, see, not everyone knows this.

Yet.