General Discussion

1. So called religious leaders who sell out to politicians to gain (or recover) secular power when their calvinist message fails (since the 60’s)

2. Oligarchs who buy politicians to get the laws wired in their favor. (1)

3. Politicians, who will sell out on the cheap, and

4. The good old friend of fascism: race hatred, or other blaming of minorities to “divide and conquer”

We have a confluence of all four, a pretty exact mirror of Germany in the 30’s.



(1) https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219876755

Now, imagine you were a tycoon who is also a defense contractor that is trying to sell hundreds of billions of dollars of military equipment to the government, and you know that the procurement process requires them to go with the lowest bidder. But, since you're a dude with hundreds of billions of dollars, it doesn't seem fair that the system isn't even more rigged in your favor. How would you "fix" this system? Well, you'd have to capture procurement, so that it was rigged to only buy stuff from you and your friends, at whatever price you guys want