Are governments just protection rackets for the 1%?
Our political systems, regardless of who is elected or in power, have become tools of our oligarchs and are designed to insure that they retain their wealth. We are in fact and in reality ruled by our various oligarchs.
Yes, governments exists only to protect the very wealthy and powerful while keeping everybody else in perpetual slavery or servitude. Anybody that says otherwise is a damn liar or idiot, take your pick.
Those that support government usually benefit under it somehow ( Or are extremely socially brainwashed.) and those that donât are those trying to escape their own individual fate of enslavement or tyranny to it. That is usually how realpolitik works beyond all the pretentious BS centered on this subject.
And there is an interesting hierarchy (which is an absolutely âdemocraticâ one ):
(1) 1%. Rulers.
(2) 19%. Governmental and other functionaries (protect the 1% and buffer between the 1% and the 80% - in favor of the 1% of course)
(3) 80%. Enemies (cynically called âpeopleâ or âhumansâ; powerless; always turned against each other and played off against each other).
Indeed, just as broad sweeping statements about liberal governments from conservatives are as moronic as broad sweeping statements of conservative governments from liberals.
It has been my experience however that those who tend to see the world from an objectivist frame of mind tend to embrace [morally/politically] one or another rendition of âright makes mightâ.
That both liberals and conservatives are clearly up to the task of framing the role of government in terms of âone of usâ vs. âone of themâ doesnât really surprise me at all.
Though with respect to political economy does anyone here still actually believe that wealth and power [in the form of crony capitialism] doesnât prevail with respect to such issues as tax policy?
Does anyone here actually believe that âone man one voteâ is âfor all practical purposesâ the order of the day on Capital Hill and in the White House?
In other words, in this day and age, are there actually still idealists among us?!!
Even systems of court, so called justice systems, and litigation is all about protecting the elite segments of society or putting into law their attitudes of life enforced on everybody else.
The concept of government serving everybody equally impartially of wherever they come from in life is a giant deception that is played all throughout history that only the most gullible accept as fact.
They all serve the same kind of people that run and own everything, their means may differ from each other in practice but the end result is always the same.
In this day and age it is empiricism versus idealism but empiricism is winning as idealists have been rendered impotent. Of course trying to frame all of human society under empiricism alone creates many problems and has had idealists on the run from a standpoint of defeat for more than a century.
I just donât think something as broad as âGovernmentsâ can be assigned singular motivations or effects. And changing the assignment of motive from âGovernmentsâ to âthe people who run Governmentsâ doesnât make it any better.
When governments around the world eventually and inevitably implode which they will the cusp of the situation will be obvious to most however by that time it will be too late as catastrophe will be everywhere. For those in the know we are left with a sort of bewildering amusement on our descent into annihilation. You can either amuse yourself with this or surrender yourself to retirement in despair but alas these are the only choices we have for the controlling authoritarian power structure is an almost invincible behemoth. If you cannot destroy or challenge such a system directly like ancient years past we can only wait patiently in horror for its own downfall in which it simply destroys itself under its own weight. As the old proverb goes,the bigger they are the harder they fall. We can only hope there will be some semblance of life afterwards in the aftermath.
What else is there concerning any kind of government other than the system or implementation of power benefiting the powerful? Please tell me what else there is.