"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" Benito Mussolini
"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue." Ayn Rand
How does one like myself, someone that believes in freedom, believes in this nation; sit down and tell this nation that unless there is a change in just a few short days and months, will watch this nation became a Fascist state? Or an Ayn Rand Wet dream? I know that the words Fascist and Fascism is thrown around alot, that is why I put that quote up there... to give what the leader of a Fascist country thought Fascism means.
I also felt that there is a second way this could go, and wanted to let you know what that found felt about her "philosophy for living on earth" was.
That being said, think about it, for every dollar you or I give is matched and then lapped by BoA or Exxon or Philip Morris. Changes to Environmental policy, GONE! Health care for all, Yah right, get a job. Unions, Outlawed. Being able to go to sites like Daily Kos or Huffington Post, I don't think so.
But maybe not, maybe we won't go to a fascist State, maybe we go more of what Ayn Rand dreamed of. More of the fact and face of the if you can't make it too bad the rest of us can. Remember those that can, and those that can't Read about it. the ghetto of Chicago or New York, now think of them as more like what we are seeing in Haiti.
Again health care NO... help for the sick or mental challenged, they need to rise above all that. AS it stands right now, unlike any other nation of the "first world" you are 85% if I remember right, more likely to stay where you are, economy then you are to be better off. The world that chief "Justice" Roberts open up was part, Brave new World and part the world of V for Vendetta.
The right as always said they didn't want activist Judges, YET Roberts and those 5 WROTE a whole new law, and I really worry for this nation. Yet the Right is all happy and glad, because it's a "a win for their side" and "great for freedom of speech" but they don't seem to understand that they are going to be just as lost as the left or center. It is going to be a government for big business not for us.
so what is going to be, Fascism or Objectivism either way this nation is going to be forever changed, and not in a good way, unless we do something about it.
"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards."
"corporations could be a positive force as long they were properly regulated."
Theodore Roosevelt
Of course better person than I have said and worried about this with better words, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, Sen. Feindgold, and Pres. Obama, but my fear is just as big, and I hope so are yours?