An Enormous Corporate Colonization Project Is Underway -- And the US Economy Will Never Be the Same

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25. Indeed, The Firesign Theater Guys Had A Clear Vision Of Where We Were Headed

In one of their other albums, the one with the guy waking up to his radio, with Reverend Leroy and all that, there was a quick news note of the US announcing a merger with a corporation, TM Corp as I recall. It was funny back then, not so much now.

It's getting scary, between the grip of big money and the Tea Party Wing who have the non mouth foaming republicans scared to cross them lest they get "primaried".

A lot of it crystallized under this administration, because if you hadn't noticed Obama's black -or more correctly half brown but no matter to many, it's like the old Dixiecrats are back, all this state rights and nullification of US Laws talk and action. This was broached this morning on Steve Kornacki's MSNBC show, it hearkens back to Strom Thurmond running as a Dixiecrat Democrat and winning 4 southern states in 1948. That boiled over when LBJ, using the emotion of the JFK murder, got the Civil Rights Act through. LBJ correctly lamented that the Democrats could kiss the south goodbye for 40 years - he undershot that time frame.

LBJ routed far right Barry Goldwater in 1964 but Goldwater got as much as 87% of the vote in a southern state. Two Americas then, two now.

Maybe one more generation has to move on but I don't know if we ever get where we need to be. Adding to the fear of where we're headed is climate change and what awaits us, since the corporations have held back real action and we've crossed a threshold we may not get back from. On top of our rampant and unchecked economic inequality we can look forward to more and worse Hurricane Sandys.