Private sector power is breeding fascism

I apologise for not having posted for over a week but one of the reasons is that I have been overtaken by events. I had a post prepared on the subject of the dangers to our traditional normative order from both the pigsty and the White House when I saw programmes on CNN on just that very subject and so, as I do not wish to be accused of plagiarism, I have deleted the said post but will discuss this in a different form to what I was proposing if you will bear with me, because it is important and shows us how the governments of both the US and the UK are systematically attacking and undermining our democratic systems in the interests of private individuals and corporations. This, as I continually warn you, is the necessary consequence of free market economics. Free market neoliberalism necessarily leads to authoritarian and even totalitarian government as it will not accept constraints on its activities or regulation. Such private individuals and corporations who, following successful bribery and corruption, own our political class, then demand that the political class order public policy to satisfy their selfish and particular interests. The political system then embarks on a sustained propaganda exercise to convince us that the private sector is self-evidently morally and economically superior to collective public and state activity whilst demonising the public sector, its personnel, its activities and its aims, normally portraying them as 'socialist' which is again expected to be taken as self-evidently evil. This activity then requires that both the pigsty and the White House are solely occupied by personnel who accept this ideology and obey the dictates of the persons whose interests it serves. Only one ideology, one political class who support that ideology and one set of public institutions that underpin that ideology are acceptable and so we slide down the inevitable road to authoritarianism. That is the narrative that really underpins Brexit and continues to support Agent Orange. The tragedy is that such a process requires a political class and governmental personnel who are not only incredibly incompetent, but remarkably stupid as they must always be willing to do the bidding of their corporate masters whenever they are obliged. Again, please don't anyone try to tell me that May, Boris the Spider, the '45 etc are educated and intelligent people when they are demonstrably as thick as two planks, and, in the case of Agent Orange, quite insane. I insert here a paragraph from a Guardian column that puts the case against the 45 far better than I could (I apologise for using his name here as that has been defenestrated from this blog many moons ago as I refuse to soil these pages by recognising it. He is always referred to as the 45 or Agent Orange on this blog, and even that it too respectful).

"Witnessing Trump’s presidency unravel so spectacularly provokes a perverse joy. The venality is so baroque, the vulgarity so ostentatious, the inconsistencies so stark, the incompetence so epic and the lies so brazen, it leaves you speechless. His vanity is without guile and the scandals that embroil him without end. Almost everything he says and does has been publicly contradicted, by himself, usually on Twitter. On Tuesday he said of Tillerson’s departure: “Rex and I have been talking about this a long time … We were not really thinking the same”."

This is why our normative order is being destroyed, because the normal conventions of politics and government would have removed the entire British government and the 45 long before now. Decent and civilised societies governed by civilised behaviour, by respect and common dignity, would not have tolerated such vile cretins for five minutes. Our political class are vile, but so are far too many of the electorate. They are shameless because not only do they have no respect for others, they have no self-respect. This is the characterisation of the majority of our media as well, both press and television. We no longer have any form of journalism left in major areas of the media, we only have shameless and craven propaganda. Thus, the destruction of the normative order extends into the media as well. We are in the midst of a political storm over the poisoning of a Russian and his daughter in Salisbury just now. The Kremlin may well be guilty, I do not know, but neither do those who have found them guilty irrespective of evidence. This nation has now abandoned that most important norm of the rule of law, the presumption of innocence, and this position has been adopted by the government, the pigsty, the press and media and the general public. We are committing the crimes against Iraq, Libya etc. all over again in our desire to scapegoat the foreigner for our own failings. Whilst I was thinking about the character of our political class I was reminded of a quote from Bertrand Russell who said that 

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his interests, he will scrutinise it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way".

Our instincts in Western society tell us that Russia is bad, full stop. They are the enemy and we are the good guys. Thus, we are guided by a certainty founded upon suspicion rather than proof because we are self-evidently far superior in all human aspects to the Russian. I wonder where we heard that before? which leads me on to one more quote from Russell.

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” 

The pigsty and the 45 are incapable of self-doubt. You should reflect on that, and again, you have been warned   

Your Servant

Doktor Kommirat





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