Stimulus and the Corked Bat of Special Interests

 Special interests have taken over the U.S.A. and government of the nation. A special interest in regard to the founding parameters of the United States could be regarded as an interest or  organization limited to just some of the citizens all of the time. Today virtually any corporation, church denomination, civic and social organization, fort profit and non-profit business could rightly be considered to be a special interest in regard to federal legislation. The federal stimulus conundrum that cannot get passed because of partisan wrangling about special interests rather than those of all U.S. citizens this year drew my attention.

Free federal dollars flow to special interest citizens and aliens rather than to all citizens equally- that helps establish corporatism and its socialist junior partner.

  Today is Sunday so I will write something concerning church structure as an upgradable special interest (that doesn’t require federal bail-outs). When the U.S.A. was founded there were no corporations in the nation and far fewer special interests seeking to benefit from preferred federal legislation transferring money to them. The Hudson Bay Company and East India Company were the two entities that most closely resembled corporations in North America and India respectively. The Catholic Church in the U.S.A. might be thought of as the largest corporate structure in the U.S.A. of that era. Church structures might be thought of as having ossified in forms created during or before the reformation era circa 1500-1600 with church pastors of Protestant churches shepherding ecclesiastic formations adapted to village life of illiterate peasants. In the United States presently there actually are few places like that. Another reform to place Christians on a level ground sharing liturgical tasks in small groups within a Priesthood of Believers would be more appropriate. A national work-credit and job bank with attendance and participation records, referrals and sharing could keep all Christians active, evangelical and free of certain emergency medical and financial troubles.

 Special interest legislation and/or end-times theology along with anachronistic clerical forms can take Christians fairly from meaningful participation in Democracy and accurate Biblical hermeneutics. A wrong understanding of the constitution of the U.S.A. and founding democratic principles can lead politicians to seek legislation that benefits corporations and busy-ness as a special interest prioritized above that of common citizens of the United States. Legislators wrangle over how to benefit people that own corporations and other busy-ness activity instead of all of the people of the United States during the pandemic. Real shareholders own corporations hence the U.S. Government has no legitimate right to transfer wealth to them instead of every citizen of the United States equally if it chooses to give away money normally or during an emergency for relief. Competition in a free enterprise environment isn’t supposed to end when it becomes tough for the established whereat the government will bail out the prosperous and/or filthy rich. Corporations are special interests that politically incompetent legislators have learned to worship. Actually citizen busyness and free enterprise could develop in innumerable other forms; it wasn’t necessary to evolve Wall Street monopoly of busyness and over government.

  In Washington D.C. politicians and pundits generally have forgotten that the people of the nation who own the nation politically in a manner of speaking are everyone rather than special interests named corporations. To send federal money as grants or loans to special collectives of people; to favor select persons as special interests of congress above that of the people of the United States is to support and ossify a particular non-democratic approach to governance that does in effect changes democracy into corporatism, oligarchy or plutonomy. Some socialist like the corporate approach because it does annihilate the principle of individual sovereignty and free enterprise in favor of corporate enterprise and other forms of mass collective business that readily morphs into socialism through a number of means. There is a false dialectic emitted from each side that has corporatism vs. socialism rather than corporatism and socialism as collective entities versus democracy, individualism and national sovereignty with secure borders. Corporatists and socialists are globalists that run roughshod over national boundaries.

 In the Internet era corporate hegemony allows self-tightening consolidation of wealth and power to plutocrat-led corporations. Every written communication can be scanned by insiders and a percent or all financial value harvested/skimmed from the work of everyone utilizing the ubiquitous corporate internet sites. With the U.S. Government ordinarily transferring wealth to large banks with zero or very low interest loans that lets those banks owned by Plutocrats electronically mint five times the amount loaned to loan out or invest themselves ordinary citizen free enterprise become as laughably non-competitive as laborers are to international dope traffickers who can afford to buy the business they labor for. The sole advantage of under-the-table illegal alien labor is that they can at least find work outside direct corporate employment yet. Corporate networks can ban any individual inconvenient from their optimal profit narratives they choose to.

 Corporations as special interests and their CEO’s attract a common kind of individual worker-tool seeking money and power. Like herbivores attracted by thirst to a water-hole along their own route, corporate leadership share the same goals and exploit similar methods to subjugate and harvest profit from every empirical facticity within their power- hence they expand their power and wealth with insatiable drive. That has a very dampening effect upon individual citizen free enterprise and liberty to express dissenting personal opinions on-line without reprisal.