I'm not going to spend too much time here presenting proof to this truism: Our system of government has turned into a plutocratic corporatocracy headed by a ruling elite composed of moneyed interests (corporatists, financial cartels, billionaires) and a political establishment on the take (campaign donations, soft and hard bribery, cushy jobs after public office, revolving door cronyism, etc.).
The dynamics of this system are helping bring about an increasingly dystopian and fascistic situation for average citizens (or the 99 percent). This is why the population is expected to accept absurd propositions being imposed by the ruling class.
Unless and until a large-enough segment of the population comes to this realization and unites into a cohesive movement capable of acting in concert, and strategically, not only nationally, but internationally, the situation will continue to deteriorate until we reach the final dystopian world in which half of the population is manipulated into turning against the other half, while the ruling elite watches--as it was a sport.
Here are the five necessary conditions for an effective counter-strategy against the increasingly fascistic ruling elite:
- Propaganda: Millions and millions of people need to come to the realization that the U.S. media is a very harmful propaganda instrument of the ruling elite. Once they come to this realization, a very organized counter-propaganda campaign needs to be started. Nothing else can proceed until this is understood.
- Corrupt Political System: Millions and millions of people need to come to accept the notion that our system of government is based on a corrupt pay-to-play corporatocracy where powerful business and financial interests pay off (and buy off) the political class to do their bidding, to the detriment of the population.
- Starve The Beast: Millions and millions of people need to get off from under the jackboot of the corporate overlords. The most practical way of doing so is by starting to set up alternative workplaces like millions of employee-owned/employee-run companies around the country, and by setting up food and housing collectives. A lot of this is already happening, but it needs to be accelerated, and people involved need to connect with each other in a nationwide network, and coordinate strategy.
- Confidence: Millions of people need to come to an understanding that they can indeed do these things now, and that it is not difficult at all. All they have to do is basically change their mindset; a mindset that has been conveniently manipulated into accepting the current absurd framework benefiting the corrupt ruling class.
- Revolution: We need to take to the streets; it needs to happen in a highly-coordinated way, and it needs to be much bigger than what OWS ever was. Initially, people shouldn't worry about the numbers. It just needs to get going. Even a few hundred people acting in coordination nationwide would be enough. They will grow to thousands, and then tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands. The conditions are ripe for this to happen. But again, the effort for this peaceful revolution need to be highly-coordinated. I like to think of it as a "project" using a project management approach.
Finally, and addressing point four, I plan on forming a Benefit Corporation here in California specifically designed to promote and fund employee-owned businesses, and food and housing collectives.
I will be reaching out to organizations that have successfully implemented this concept in different regions of the country, with the intention of spreading it nationwide.
The organization I will be setting up will also address the issue of counter-propaganda.
I'm available and willing to collaborate with others who have similar ideas...
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