Based on the Hicks definition of populism, it can therefore be stated that there are two fundamental propositions of conservatism:
(1) That government should stand aside and not protect the poor and the needy from exploitation by the rich and the greedy; and
(2) That in order to accomplish the first proposition, government must be plutocratic instead of democratic.
America’s corrupt system of legalized bribery to fund its public elections makes our system of government a plutocracy. Plutocracy simply means government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. But America’s particular brand of plutocracy is even more insidious to freedom and justice than a simple plutocracy. That’s because it’s not just based on power and privilege for the rich–it’s based on power and privilege for the corporate rich. That’s why I call the American system of government “corpocracy.” The conservative ideology supports and reinforces America’s corpocracy the same way the communist ideology supported that of the Soviet Union for over 70 years. It also employs the same propaganda techniques to fool the people.
The purpose of any ideology is to stop people from thinking. When people buy into an ideology, they have checked their brains at the door. They accept a package of beliefs based on the wrapping of the package rather than by examining the contents. That is what the conservative ideology seeks to accomplish–to get people to stop thinking, and to persuade them to accept the complete package without ever opening it and examining the contents. And it’s why people need to understand more about the conservative ideology in order to protect themselves and their interests from it, as well as to protect the interests of society as a whole.
Would “corpROcracy” be government of the shit by the shit for the shit?
LOL
Good one!
Actually, since the prefix is COPRO- (no R before the P), I guess it would be “Coprocracy”!
I’m definitely adding this one to my lexicon.