LET’S TALK TURKEY

While we could talk about Turkey, India, Iran, Ukraine, Russia; China – all a complex international mess along with good old Uncle Sam, let us focus just on USA internal today.

Is the great experiment titled Uncle Sam (USA) destined to fail?

I say we are heading directly down that rabbit hole currently; perhaps for the last 30-years and as in all experiments, perhaps from the get-go. Let us examine our “democracy”. The USA is not a pure democracy; rather, a democracy based or rooted in capitalism. In the USA, Uncle Sam is a big believer in capitalism as the driver of a thriving democracy; always has been. But what is capitalism?

  Capitalism is a competition. The objective is the same as good old Monopoly, to control the board, to own everything or so much of the resources that no other player can compete (or get ahead)! At that point, the few and getting fewer of the ultra-rich, not only own everything, control everything, but they are also – the deciding factor behind democracy (the definition of freedom for every person). They control what is often called “the American Dream”, literally! We the common masses only choose who THEY (the few plutocrats) put in place for us to choose from. We only get the resources they – want commoners to have. Why? Because in our Capitalistic-Democracy, it takes “money”, resources to become a known entity to the masses. It takes “money” to control and exact choices in government law, legislation, and even court decisions. Without it – YOU LOSE! Capitalism like most if not all sports competitions is based on a single winner scenario.   One of my favorite examples is the show called ‘WIPEOUT ZONE’. In this amusing if not brutal competition, 24 contestants begin the game involving a series of complex physical hurdles – the goal TO WIN! In each stage of the game, more of the commoners, all equal at the start, are eliminated and those remaining continue to the next stage.         At the final competition, there are only three contenders left – only one though, will win the big $50,000.00 payoff. The other 23 go home empty, zeroed out.

This is exactly the objective and the scenario of a capitalistic driven society.

I argue we are already at this point in the USA. We have become a plutocratic- democracy, which really, is just a plutocracy hiding in the closet. Only on the closet door does the title read democracy and our votes are cast only for those already chosen by – the plutocrats.