How do you know the Harris-Walz ticket is neither communist nor socialist but state corporatist? Because the ticket is endorsed by the power elite, the administrative apparatus, the national security state, and the military-industrial complex. The warmongering neocons know who advances the interests of the globalists and military-industrial complex. The fact that they obsess over and so pathologically loathe Trump tells you a lot about the situation. It’s effectively an endorsement.
If you haven’t read C. Wright Mills’ 1956 The Power Elite and Sheldon Wolin’s 2008 Democracy, Inc.: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, then you should take some time before now and the election to understand who hijacked the American Republic. To whet your appetite (or if you haven’t time), here are synopses:
The Power Elite analyzes the structure of power in the United States, showing that a small group of elites—comprising corporate, military, and political leaders—control the key institutions of American society. Mills contends that these elites are interconnected, forming a cohesive ruling class that operates above the democratic processes, thereby diminishing the influence of ordinary citizens—and even Congress (especially the House). He is describing the corporate state and its administrative apparatus.
Democracy, Inc. extends this critique by arguing that the United States has evolved into a form of “inverted totalitarianism.” Unlike traditional totalitarian regimes, which exert power through overt force, this system maintains a facade of democracy while being dominated by corporate interests and a technocratic government. Wolin asserts that what elites call “democracy” is really manipulating public opinion through ideology and propaganda, what is called “managed democracy.” Managed democracy undermines the foundational principles of democratic governance, leading to a system where power is concentrated in the hands of a few.
Mills and Wolin are not speculating. This is not an abstract theory of the situation. Mills and Wolin are describing reality and giving you the conceptual tools to convey the truth. There is no cabal operating in shadow. All this is in your face. The deep state is only deep in the sense that they hide the smoking guns (occasionally offering “limited hangouts” to appear to come clean); you can see it for yourself—and you know what it’s doing because you can see what it does. Things don’t happen by accident. Things happen because people in power are in a position to pull levers. Toto has already pulled back the curtain. You only need to see the Great and Powerful Oz for what he is: a charlatan.
Knowing all that, you can all now know this: if you want to know who to vote for (presuming you’re a patriot who believes in America), then look at which candidates and figures get the support of the apparatus and which candidates and figures are condemned by it. The establishment wants you to believe that the threat to democracy is not the power elite who have replaced democracy with technocracy. The threat to democracy, they tell you, are the outsiders who are striving the restore the American Republic—Trump, RFK, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Naomi Wolf, and all the patriots the media smears as “conspiracy theorists,” “fascists,” “racists,” etc.
The elite and their subalterns (not in the Gramscian sense but in the original meaning) have inverted reality to perpetuate Wolin’s inverted totalitarianism. But your brain is sophisticated. It is a camera obscura that rights the upside-down images light presses onto your retina. All you need to do is elaborate that facility to right the upside-down images the apparatus presses onto the masses. Cultivating this ability is the ideology killer. (See Inverting the Inversions of the Camera Obscura. See also Stripped of its Historically Bounded Features, What is Fascism?)
And the people are waking up to it. Growing numbers of Americans see what they see—what the kings and prophets cannot because they will not. They see that men cannot be women. They see that progressives are authoritarians. It’s an exciting time. But it is also as race against time. The sprint to November 5 is about more than restoring the Republic. It’s about revitalizing the Enlightenment so future generations may enjoy the freedoms we enjoyed growing up.
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