The Crisis in Context

It is important to have in mind the context in which the economic collapse and the stimulus package exist if we are to understand the political conflict at hand. And to do that we need to go back to WWII days.

In 1933 as I have pointed out before, Prescott Bush and the Melons, DuPonts, Morgans and a mess of other big corporate people tried to engineer a coup to get rid of Roosevelt, the immediate reason being his welfare program which was seen as undermining the capitalistic corporate interest and values. Corporatism was coming to the fore with Mussolini defining it and Hitler embracing it, something greatly admired by our business leaders.

But there was more to it than just some nationally directed economic programs. The Nazi plan which was admired by Prescott Bush and the corporate elite was the overtaking of the world economy, globalism along with the form of government they created. The Nazi way to global mastery was through a military conquest or the use of military force as a threat and in their case actually the central instrument. It was under the umbrella of this military force and conquest that corporations were to establish their control of the various local economies.

At the end of the war some leading Nazis created literally hundreds of corporate branches all over the world in an attempt to fulfill the dream of corporate globalization.

It is then that the CIA was created with Alan Dulles heading it, a continuation of OSS which had been the work of corporate elite associated with the Wall Street gang and manned by them in many instances. Dulles brought in this country and into the CIA and also the Republican Party a large number of former Nazis with skills in intelligence and in corporate globalism, ostensibly to get expertise in combating communism and the Soviets. This affinity for German methods was not new. Much of our educational forms and policies were modeled after the Prussian one created in response to the threat of democracy to the German aristocracy in the mid 19th century, a form of education emphasizing patriotism and service to the country and its institutions, in a word obedience and in a more modern for, the team spirit which bring people together in the service of higher purposes.

This German model using force to gain global economic domination gave birth here to the Friedman economic doctrine of free market economics and free trade whereby we in simple term promised to help a nation in need on the condition that they allow our corporations to take over their industry and their economy in general. Bu the more conservative elements following the Nazi ways favored adding military force, something which was implemented in a dramatic way by Reagan with his use of the contras and Bush in Iraq and his policies towards Iran and Korea.

But earlier Kennedy was faced with this militaristic approach when he attempted to end the cold war by rapprochement with Khrushchev and Castro and countered the CIA and military establishment by ordering the withdrawal of our forces from Vietnam.

All this aggressive globalization was orchestrated by a far larger crowd than just Bush and Melon, even of some people are saying that Bush senior was at the head of the assassination team which killed Kennedy. Even if he was, which I doubt, he was merely implementing what had been decided by a much larger crowd referred to by Colonel Fletcher Prouty as the Secret Team, by others as the shadow government, and in simple terms by such international organization of corporate tycoons as the Bilderberger group and the Trilateral Organization among others.

Now it turns out that we have a global economic crisis, perhaps a global economic collapse which may threaten the globalist corporatist or fascists.

The whole globalist endeavor has been in the tradition of the Prussian culture which in turn is the feudal system of aristocratic rule now embodied as the corporate elite. And this tradition is a control from the top of a hierarchy, something which sets up the way businesses are run and finds its expression in the economic trickle down theory along with our free trade practices. It is the same domination from the top which in Iraq had us reject and invalidate the elections at the tribal level that the general in charge at the outset had supported, but that were cancelled when he was replaced and a governance from a central government we could controls was put in place.

Our foreign policy has been locked for decade in this militaristic imposition of our will and economic interests. But now it all is coming crashing down and there is in Washington a tone which indicates a popularist rather than a corporatist control is in the offing. The Republicans may not spell it out just like this, but it is apparent that this is what they sense is taking place and what they strongly oppose in the form of rejection of the stimulus package.

This is why I feel that not only are we falling into a stagnation in the face of this deteriorating situation, but quite possibly the demise of the president and his administration through some sort of coup. However, I cannot imagine what the alternative the corporate elite may have in mind, assuming that they are not hiding in denial and thus failing to apprehend reality.

We are thus locked into a cultural tone which is held on to as a faith blindsiding us to any alternative possibilities and drawing into its service all our passions as well as being the root of our fear of such ill defined alternatives as socialism or a welfare state.

There is nothing evil or even wrong in any way about globalization. A global economy is really inevitable. But run from the top down and imposed by force on others destroys local cultures and values, their way of life and the props to people’s identity resulting in turning us into the enemy, the evil ones. It needs to be a process of bringing the existing cultural ways of doing things by honoring them and letting them chose their way of participating in this economy while we stand there to assist them in fulfilling their needs and desires when possible. The notion of bringing those people into the twenty first century is setting ourselves above them and in fact absurd. It is not a matter of time, but something irrelevant to our linear time. However such an approach whose seeds we see in Obama’s approach casts aside the power of the corporate elite and is completely unacceptable to the existing lords of our culture.

If the stimulus package is implemented in any effective form, we will face a profound split between those in its favor, its beneficiaries, and those locked into the delusions created by their faith in their version of the American myth fostered by the militaristic corporate globalists. In the end, perhaps after a devastating depression and social unrest, we will rise up from the mess as a more mature and humanistically oriented people as some optimist are predicting.