Corporate dictatorship?

We are almost in 2012, and Mayan prophecy or not, with so many elections (US, France), changes of leaders (CCP) and the debt crisis going on, it will obviously be a decisive year for the world.

Here I would like to sum up some thoughts about the crisis the world is experiencing in order to complete 2 other posts I had wrote in 2010, "The American Corporate Communism" and in 2009, "This is not capitalism Anymore".

Basically, when thinking about the crisis, it has become more and more obvious to me that the origin of the problems we are experiencing now is due to the excessive influence of the lobbies (especially the Financial Lobby).

For more than 30 years, they have spread their ideas (propaganda is like tea, it infuses slowly) in the mind of the politicians (and average people) through campaign funding (and through the media they control). They have the money and the time (president passes, they are the White House lodgers, lobbies remain). They have torn down the US financial regulation (the Glass-Steagall Act), little by little, piece by piece, president after president, convincing each and everyone that it was in the interest of the nation to do so. It is now clear that it was not in the interest of anyone but them. They were just pleading for their own particular interest, which is actually quite normal for a lobby, the real problem being that the politicians could not say "no". Could not realize that those lobbies who were (and are) claiming they are patriots, pro free markets, pro freedom and everything, were (and are) actually just pushing their own agenda, and that this agenda would lead us where we are now : experiencing some kind of Corporate dictatorship, where a fuzzy oligarchy (a part of the 1% Occupy Wall Street is talking about) is running our lives without being held accountable for anything they are responsible for...

After 30 years of brainwashing, both the elites and the average American, believe that "public is bad, private is good". "Paying taxes is bad, it is socialism". "There is too much Federal State, too much government, government is socialism" and so on...

Forgetting that the private sector is just pursuing profits and not the interest of the people (the whole health care debate has been appalling in this regard). Forgetting that without taxes, there would be no Internet, there is no infrastructures, roads, airports, bridges (which are falling apart in the US), there is no decent education (which means no future) and that without all those things, the economy cannot grow. Not realizing that without regulation, corporations just grew bigger and bigger to an extent where they cannot be regulated anymore (they are worldwide, if you regulate in one country they will just move their headquarter to a more "friendly" country), to an extent where there is no real competition, just oligopolistic markets barely trying to look like free markets...

Bottom line, the US are now facing a huge ideology crisis (the mother of all crisis actually), too many people just thinking upside down. A lot of Americans are now convinced that the problem is that there is "too much government" (reducing the power of the government/State being the ultimate goal of the lobbies so that they can do whatever they want to make more money), when the problem is actually that the government (elected) is under the influence of a corporate oligarchy who, by definition, cannot be held accountable.

Getting rid of this influence (and of some of the elite who have been too brainwashed) would solve most of the problems we are facing (not in the short run, but in the mid/long run). To be clear, if there is one measure that should be taken for the sake of America (and the world, because what happens there impacts the whole world) is to implement a real Campaign Finance Reform = Public (and capped) funding, period.
But of course if someone dares to propose such a thing, the establishment / lobbies will get apoplectic and will immediately launch a campaign to label this person as a "dangerous socialist"... when it is actually the exact opposite.
"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people". If you let private interests fund politicians (to such an extent and for such a long period of time), those private interests, little by little will take the power over.
And that's exactly what happened.

The lobbies have poisoned capitalism to a point it is not capitalism anymore. Capitalism without regulation (hence without real competition) is not capitalism, it is an authoritarian economy.
The lobbies have poisoned democracy to an extent it is almost not democracy anymore. Let's face it, a democracy where the oligarchy's interests outweigh to that extent the average citizen's interests is not a democracy, it is an authoritarian regime.
In 1792, James Madison, 4th president of the United States and one of the main writer of the American Constitution wrote : "A government operating by corrupt influence; substituting the motive of private interest in place of public duty; converting its pecuniary dispensations into bounties to favorites or bribes to opponents; accommodating its measures to the avidity of a part of the nation instead of the benefit of the whole (...) Such a government, wherever to be found, is an impostor."
It seems like we live in a world of "impostors"...

The oligarchy is now trying to rewrite history by using a basic propaganda trick : repeat a lie over and over again until it becomes a truth.
Apparently, according to them, the Subprime crisis was... the Congress fault (see this link to have some clear ideas about this issue).
Didn't I tell you that they are never held accountable of anything?