Making the world safe for fascism

The current "wilsonian" presidency of the oligarchy, by the oligarchy, and for the oligarchy continues to go about the business of world conquest unabated by bothersome checks and balances. As any hierarchical organization knows, a monolithic top-down management structure is the most efficient way of manipulating other people to do what those at the top want done. Build an office complex. Extract minerals from public land. Make a war of conquest happen. Recent history demonstrates that successful managers silence, remove, or discredit anyone who disagrees with them. Discussion and debate are a waste of precious time that could be spent turning national forests and resource-rich countries into factories for making commodities that can be sold back to the lucky natives in free markets controlled by said managers. You got a problem with that?

Dissent = disloyalty = treason.

And it appears that the incredible money-making machine is succeeding in concentrating enough wealth in few enough hands to persuade a majority of the 535 members of Congress to help them pack the federal judiciary with like-minded authoritarian, racist, fundamentalist team players. How? Convince the people at the bottom of the pyramid that their material livelihood depends on giving more wealth and power to the wise imperialists at the top of the pyramid (economic argument). Convince the people with little time or inclination to analyze ideas that their value system is somehow threatened by other people with different ideas (religious argument). Convince everyone that they are physically endangered by strange people with strange names wearing strange clothes living in strange places far away (security argument). Then "starve the beast" by taking services from the many, giving the revenue back to the few, and continuing to feed the machine.

I realize this short rant leaves out a lot, and nothing is ever as simple as my immediate, angry spin. But occasionally I have an urgent need to connect the dots that line up a certain way, leading me to draw certain disturbing conclusions, despite the many other dots that may not fit the pattern. Please feel free to counter-spin.