The Fast Hardening of Soft Fascism in America
OPS_admin | Feb 09, 2010 | Comments 0
In Last Rites for the USA, Cindy Sheehan addresses the substantial erosion of U.S. democracy by oligarchy. The freshest hell, as Sheehan sees it — an ultimate tipping point, she claims, in tearing away ANY illusion of democracy — is the Supreme Court’s recent aggressive decision to expand “personhood” rights and protections of corporations in relation to campaign financing.
“Corporations have long held sway over our government and the soft fascism of corporate control has been running things behind the scenes.”
Sheehan points out that the oligarchs no longer need to lurk behind the “soft fascism” curtain to achieve their grotesquely ambitious goals. That had been soft fascism for decades, she contends. The corporatists presume to operate in front of the curtain now, thanks to the near unanimous, bi-partisan (or post-partisan in the darkest, Orwellian sense) cronyism — of the across-the-moral-divide enabling of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of this, our formerly representative, democracy.
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