reply to post by justinsweatt
Everyone in America, including the oligarchs and the Presidential candidates, whether they know it or not, whether they like it or not, and many do
like it, are operating in a fascist/corporatist state.
Corporations set the American agenda and corporations like viruses and bacterial entities know only one law,
GROWTH.
For historical reasons America has put a lot of its industrial capital into the
Military Industrial Complex. The corporate entities that
participate in the Military Industrial Complex are as driven to growth as any other corporate entity. It is the law of their existence. They have no
more control over it than the mold growing on your cottage cheese in the fridge.
This has political consequences.
Politically, America must accomodate the natural tendancy to growth of these corporations, or that growth must be curbed,
politically. In fact,
if the choice is to curb it, that can only be done politically. The mechanisms to control growth do not exist within the corporate dynamic itself.
America has chosen instead to continue to allow the unrestrained growth of corporations in the Military Industrial Complex. This has profound
political consequences.
Allowing these corporations to grow is not the same as allowing the unrestrained growth of the Coca Cola Corporation. Coca Cola can cover the world,
but the companies that make the American tanks, warplanes and warships cannot cover the world without World War.
We have not had that war as yet, but these companies have continued to grow to the point where, like an ingrown toenail, they are turning back upon
their own root, American society, and pushing, unconsciously, through this built in mechanism of corporate growth, toward a
classical fascist
security state.
This paradigm, of the appearance of the classical fascist security state in America, was completely predictable, and in fact was virtually predicted
by President Eisenhower when he left office in 1961.
That is why you have the America you have today. The Military Industrial Complex has taken over and subverted the checks and balances built into the
American Republic. It is like the computer HAL in the movie
2001 taking over the spaceship. It is a very deterministic, logical process.
It can only be stopped politically.
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emoticon. 
