Most of you will remember a 1969 short feature that ran in theaters called “Bambi meets Godzilla”. I’ll assume that’s true since it’s still running on Youtube. It’s a VERY short feature.
“Bambi meets Godzilla” makes a great allegory for the 1% of America that owns 50% of its wealth. You can buy almost anything, but come election day in what’s left of the republic, David Koch has the same number of votes as Joe the Plunger.
To modern US neoconservatives (oddly enough, called “neo-liberals” in the rest of the world), it’s known as, “that democracy-problem thingy”. You have to find a way to effectively appoint the members of all three branches of government by controlling their access to corporate media and campaign funds; that’s why Murdoch and Ailes built a propaganda conduit to rent to them. If you get thirty guys together who have annual incomes on the order of one to ten billion dollars each, it’s not that difficult.
In the eighties, it was called “Morning in America” and “trickle-down economics”. This year, it has the same initials as “toilet paper” (renting buses doesn’t really cost very much), appropriate because the Koch brothers—used here as a metaphor, there are thirty or so other players in these majors–own Angel Soft, as well as Brawny Towels and the Roberts Court to deal with any unforeseen spills. The Kochs felt comfortable in June of this year in inviting Justices Scalia and Thomas to a meeting of 200 or so close corporate friends to help plan the “culture of prosperity”.
We are already an oligarchy, headed by people who control things that you need, things the Mafia would love to control: Energy. Health Care. The “security-industrial complex”. We’ve already returned to the Robber Baron days, when the Rockefeller family owned their own US senator outright.
But please, don’t be in a hurry to scrap the machinery of the old republic. We may need it again, and if we do, there won’t be time to build it from scratch.
Most of you will remember a 1969 short feature that ran in theaters called “Bambi meets Godzilla”. I’ll assume that’s true since it’s still running on Youtube. It’s a VERY short feature.
“Bambi meets Godzilla” makes a great allegory for the 1% of America that owns 50% of its wealth. You can buy almost anything, but come election day in what’s left of the republic, David Koch has the same number of votes as Joe the Plunger.
To modern US neoconservatives (oddly enough, called “neo-liberals” in the rest of the world), it’s known as, “that democracy-problem thingy”. You have to find a way to effectively appoint the members of all three branches of government by controlling their access to corporate media and campaign funds; that’s why Murdoch and Ailes built a propaganda conduit to rent to them. If you get thirty guys together who have annual incomes on the order of one to ten billion dollars each, it’s not that difficult.
In the eighties, it was called “Morning in America” and “trickle-down economics”. This year, it has the same initials as “toilet paper” (renting buses doesn’t really cost very much), appropriate because the Koch brothers—used here as a metaphor, there are thirty or so other players in these majors–own Angel Soft, as well as Brawny Towels and the Roberts Court to deal with any unforeseen spills. The Kochs felt comfortable in June of this year in inviting Justices Scalia and Thomas to a meeting of 200 or so close corporate friends to help plan the “culture of prosperity”.
We are already an oligarchy, headed by people who control things that you need, things the Mafia would love to control: Energy. Health Care. The “security-industrial complex”. We’ve already returned to the Robber Baron days, when the Rockefeller family owned their own US senator outright.
But please, don’t be in a hurry to scrap the machinery of the old republic. We may need it again, and if we do, there won’t be time to build it from scratch.