Before people jump all over me, let me acknowledge that what I'm about to posit is a highly-speculative theory. I understand that reasonable people may (and probably will) disagree with this proposition, and in reality, they may be right in not accepting it.
However, this is the type of territory where you venture when you are trying to make sense of very disturbing and seemingly unexplainable patterns, in order to ascertain what does it all means.
Let's examine some conclusions that are beginning to get wider acceptance. First, that a small group of oligarchs and their corporations have corrupted our entire system of government. For a primer on this, please review this information: United States of ALEC - Revealing the hidden world of ALEC — corporations and state legislators colluding to write laws and remake America, one statehouse at a time.
Second, let's consider the very plausible probability that Wall Street criminals at the highers levels have been able to corrupt our government, thus allowing them to commit massive fraud with impunity: PBS FRONTLINE: THE UNTOUCHABLES.
Here's a theory I'm considering... These organizations, like ALEC, their think tanks (Heritage Foundation, CATO, AEI, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and others) and their massive propaganda apparatus in the form of the U.S. corporate media conglomerate, as a movement, they reflect an undemocratic and fascistic ideology based on shared interests.
As of today, they have been able to infiltrate our entire system of government, at both, state and federal level, giving them unprecedented power which they are busily using to finish implementing a total information awareness surveillance police state.
Their ultimate purpose is revealed through their efforts to defund the social safety net and privatize the public sector as fast as possible...
Remember, there is a long, very long history of exploitation and slavery in this country based on a certain economic model. For a primer on that, please visit the PBS American Experience documentary website for THE ABOLITIONISTS.
So here's the scenario... In reality, the banks have already been looted, totally, with liabilities in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. Right now they are operating on borrowed time, lying about their actual condition, with the help of government officials that are either intimidated, or on the take.
The Supranational quasi-world government in the form of an international financial criminal enterprise has already secured their wealth and power. In essence, they may found ways to shield their wealth from the soon-to-fail worldwide financial system, as they prepare for their next move.
In a way, this may explain why Obama has not gone after the Wall Street criminals...
Eventually the banks collapse under the weight of trillions of dollars of junk investments and from actual looting through complex investment instruments.
Because the government, especially the Republican party, has been taken over by these criminal elements, any sensible response to a massive financial collapse (like the nationalization of the financial system, and criminal charges against wrongdoers) is blocked.
This then creates panic, which result in the take-down of the democratic system of government.
In this scenario, the NRA and ALEC, Koch Brothers, FoxNews, etc., activate the gun-nuts that have been carefully prepped for this occasion, giving plausibility to their thus-far paranoic fantasy of protecting themselves against the government.
Then Liberals, Progressives, poor people, women, immigrants, and minorities are targeted for oppression as the private for-profit prison industry is put to use, and as the total information awareness police state takes hold and cements its control.
After the dust is settle, democracy would have been defeated, and we'll live in a Fascistic Corporatocracy.
Do you guys think something like this is possible? If not, where do you think we're heading? Again, this is just a scenario I'm considering...