The Evisceration of Democracy

The Evisceration of Democracy

Wednesday, 07 November 2007
The following article is by Manuel Valenzuela a social critic, commentator,and Internet essayist.
The beginning of the end of democracy as Americans know it began with that fatefully deceitful election in 2000. What has been the natural and inevitable progression the destructive forces of unhindered capitalism were blindly leading Americans towards has come to completion. It is the mixture of government with big business, the combination of state power with that of the Leviathan that is the U.S powerful corporate-government elites and oligarchs dancing a cheery waltz of free power mongering, forming one of the most dangerous forces to be initiated by man. It is called fascism, brought to the U.S. by the unpredictable winds of defeated ideology and trickery.
From now on, the U.S corporate-government elites's puppet masters will do everything in their capacity to control the reins of power. Democracy in the U.S. is being eroded not by the sands of time but by the expropriators of the electorate.
This guideline for deception that greed has brought onto the U.S shores is common practice in some of the Latin America countries that claim to be democratic but in reality have run U.S backed quasi-dictatorships for decades. It is here in the U.S where the ruling elite minority creating in the masses the impression that their vote counted in an election that is labeled "clean and democratic."
In the end, widespread fraud has been committed through media and government propaganda and old time tradition of stuffing and losing ballots. When it is all said and done, the powerful elites have their man at the helm and the illusion is created whereby the masses are made to believe that the person who received the most votes now has a national permission to lead. Of course nothing could be further from the truth. This phenomenon is prevalent at the local, state and national levels of governance. It is a fight for power, money and control, of huge importance to a ruling party of robber barons that can both continue plundering the U.S nation blind and running them like their own feudal property. American people are now seeing the reality of this in their country.

The power of the U.S corporate-government elites is made that much stronger by having a willing puppet sitting in the White House. This can be seen in the incredible amount of laws, appropriations, tax breaks, pork, corporate welfare, privatization of government services, legal indifference, regulations and decisions made by Bush since taking office in favor of those personalities comprising the various parts of the U.S corporate-government elites. These actions, by consequence, have only served to squander American rights and freedoms by abusing American worker rights and wages, civil liberties, pollution laws, social services, education and the like. The pressure has also been exerted on Americans by creating a sense of fear amongst the population that makes it known that if they do not agree to these changes, they will be labeled and attacked, as in fascist tyrannies, as being "unpatriotic," "treasonous," and "sympathetic to the terrorists." Or after all, as Bush's funny slogan "You are either with us or against us".

What American 2000 and 2004 elections manifest is the great lengths the U.S corporate-government elites; composed of corporations, the military-industrial complex and the oil/energy cartels, and having an ignorant army of foot soldiers called fundamentalist Christians. These elections simply have to be won, even by a pervasive fraud that disenfranchised voters.
In deceitful American elections, tens of thousands of the U.S eligible Afro-American voters were eliminated from the voting records, in essence denied the opportunity to cast a vote by covertly being labeled with a criminal record they did not have or deserve. The elimination of thousands of votes of the black people, in a state that was a virtual toss-up, assured Bush of victory, and the corporate-government elites the Presidency. And, since the votes were black, in destitute and indigent areas, no scandal would be brought to the public conscious by a restrained and corporate-friendly media. The planning for this defrauding of American democracy was extensive, premeditated and particular. It is the result of power gone insane, of the consequences of allowing capitalism to run uncontrolled, full of money and greed, to corrupt a system that in 220-year-old paper. The clandestine sabotage of American democracy had been set in motion.

The past two Presidential election in the U.S were of paramount importance to the corporate-government elites and the Bush's neocon friends and today American people can see why. The takeover of America has commenced; the fusion of corporate and government power is upon them. Democracy is being constricted; American freedoms and rights of speech, protest, assembly and open criticism are methodically being curtailed. Opposition is being silenced, protests squashed. The Bill of Rights and the U.S Constitution are slowly being burned into dark gray ash. Fascism is on the horizon, its black horse riding thunderously through the plains of ignorance, slashing open government treasure and releasing the winds of war in its thrust to empire. American people are living in dangerous times, and, if nothing is done soon, their destiny will be forever scarred by the whips of totalitarianism.