Tomorrow's Election Winners: Corporations

There’s money to be made for those who can predict the future. If you can pick the right stocks they call you a market guru. Pick the right teams to win and you are an oddsmaker. If you’re sharp enough to see where a society without morals is going to fail, they’ll call you a prophet. But point out the painfully obvious results of elections and they call you a useful idiot and a Kremlin puppet.

Nevertheless, I am willing to prognosticate on your behalf. Allow me to save you the bother of staying up late tomorrow in order to hear the results. The business you work for will appreciate having you well-rested and able to turn a profit for them.

The winners of tomorrow night’s elections will be corporations. I can’t tell you if it is the Republicans or the Democrats who will have a greater opportunity to serve them, but they shall be served regardless. That’s because, blue wave or crimson tide, nobody is going to come gunning for those corporate conglomerates that run every aspect of our lives.

Once upon a time, Social Security was the third-rail of politics, meaning that nobody dared even think about attacking or even questioning that beloved social contract. But today the corporate entity, the corporate way of structuring our society, the necessity for pooled money to make profit über alles, is a principle so ingrained in our thinking that to merely utter objections out loud would be blasphemy. This goes far beyond politics into the realm of religion. Commandment number one being: God has given corporations unto you as the source of all life. Though shalt not question their need for profit nor put any stumbling block before them.

When was the last time you heard either a Republican or Democrat say anything disparaging about the sacred institution that is the corporation? When the economy was falling apart because of the actions of the corporate banks, not a word was whispered about how someone within said banks should be held responsible. Instead, there was a great reaching across aisles in order to come together to save those banks that were too big to fail. Individuals were left to fend for themselves. Victims of unwise/greedy corporate policies found themselves crushed in the gears of the economy by the millions, but not a thought was given to them. Instead, Democrats and Republicans showered failed banks with money the way a horny sheik would an attractive belly dancer.

Likewise, the automotive industry was bailed out by the government, which used the taxpayers’ own money as incentive for them to buy new cars they didn’t need and throw away cars that were still serviceable. Democrats had no problem with it, and the same Republicans who make sure poor people aren’t spending their food stamps on potato chips were okie dokie with it too. Why? Because it benefited corporations.

Corporate media isn’t going to tell you the real winners are corporations. Corporations are going to have half the country hating the other half. They’ll break all of society down into different interest groups but they won’t even mention, in regards to the election corporations, the biggest and boldest special interest group of all.

The corporations are now completely in charge of our foreign policy. This used to be a bit of a secret, but it has become such a fait accompli that nobody bothers to hide it anymore. Given the fact that our country’s number one export is weaponry, this is a truly scary thought. Our President has pointed out that it would be inconvenient to hold our allies responsible for their actions when they are buying so many of our arms. Even our religious leaders are now worshiping at the altar of corporate profit.

So when you go to vote tomorrow, keep in mind that whatever you are voting for, it is not going to matter to the true power structures in this country, and indeed, around the world. The people of New Zealand did not want the TPP. 94% of New Zealanders did not want it. And so they voted out their conservative government that was pushing it and elected a more liberal government. The result was a new trade deal, basically the TPP with a couple added letters to it (the CPTPP). It passed 110-8, with only members of the Green Party voting against it.

I do not tell you not to vote tomorrow, nor do I tell you who not to vote for. I only suggest that you do not invest yourself too fully in the results. Do not stay up too late wondering who will win the Senate or the House, because that has already been determined. Instead, calm your emotions, and try to get a good night’s sleep. Because real change will not occur in the sand box the corporate system has relegated for you to play in. Real change will occur when we realize we have to fight the system outside of the parameters they have set for us, outside the game that they have rigged.