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Distractions keep the people divided

Posted 1/9/15

Holiday seasons past remind us that long ago Christmas was commercialized, then corporatized. Corporate capitalism hijacks and occupies anything seen as a commodity, including our institutions and …

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Distractions keep the people divided

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Holiday seasons past remind us that long ago Christmas was commercialized, then corporatized. Corporate capitalism hijacks and occupies anything seen as a commodity, including our institutions and culture. Forty plus televised football bowl games, adorned with corporate logos etched on stadiums and turf to television screen is very telling of their invasion into university athletics.

Money nominates political candidates and voters are allowed to consent. During the last electioneering process money flooded campaign coffers; CEO lobbying and a compliant Congress allowed large banks to rewrite their own self-serving legislation. “Too big to fail” gamblers will again be bailed out with taxpayer subsidies as they implode our economy next time. In the 1930’s Will Rogers quipped “we have the best Congress money can buy”; now corporations own it.

The Supreme Court is an agent of the banker corporatocracy and the Executive Branch is its captive. Consumerism is the new civil religion subverting civic engagement. Liberal vs. conservative, Democrats vs. Republican and red states vs. blue states are distracting dichotomies to deflect public attention from the real divide: corporatism vs. community and citizen.

Dissenting voices of union, journalist, clergy and intellectual have been silenced by corporate control of culture, government, media and academia. Artificial “personhood” created a ravenous juggernaut that devours and destroys leaving in its wake a plundered planet, polluted and poisoned. Fossil fuel giants dominate energy policy, turning the atmosphere into a carbon dump site. Without urgent action, climate dramatically and irreversibly altered, “God’s Creation” and civilization will be commodified to death.

Harold Honkola

Tower, Minn.