Ending the Supreme Immorality of Capitalism

This is an article from another of my favorite writers on Medium, D.K Blaire. As she notes, it is a rant on the immoral human behavior of our corporate masters. She writes:

“Democracy in these freedom-loving, liberal-touting states is merely theatrical. Having been hijacked by kleptocrats who shape public policy and discard regulations meant to protect the vulnerable, politics itself is an unabashed charade — one that often turns exhausted, weary populations against each other in a desperate bid to vent frustration.”

Frustration, I would argue, from trying and survive in this intentionally unjust economy. I have to laugh at those carrying on about Russia being a kleptocracy now without any awareness that they themselves live in one. It is the nature of profit-motivated rulers and I am not referring to what we call “our government,” which is the thuggish minion of global capital. The governing factor is money, it has been pointed out many times and yet people will talk all around it never hitting the nail on the head. Money controls what happens and those who control the money control what happens, they control public and corporate policy.

The Princeton Study by Gilens and Page nailed it finding that from 2009 to 2014, the 200 most politically active companies in the U.S. spent $5.8 billion influencing our government…