“It could be argued that we are now in the midst of a coup d’état in slow motion. Democracy is weakening; few people would disagree. Corporatism is strengthening; you only have to look around you. Yet none of us has chosen this route for our society, in spite of which our elites quite happily continue down it. Certainly corporatism is creating a conformist society. It is a modern form of feudalism.”
John Ralston Saul
“Donald Trump is not an anomaly. He is the grotesque visage of a collapsed democracy. The creeping corporate coup d’état that began 45 years ago is complete. It has destroyed the lives of tens of millions of Americans no longer able to find work that provides a living wage, cursed to live in chronic poverty.”
Chris Hedges
“Real power is, I don’t even want to use the word, fear.”
Donald Trump
I’ve been a fan of POTUS DJT. He is beginning to get my respect. If he doesn’t allow Sunni jihadists to be destroyed & get us out of Syria, he’ll lose me.
The “corporate coup d’etat” in the US started well over a century ago. The process of consolidation has been steady, and has accelerated in recent decades. It remains to be seen how successful the end result will be.
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.”
— Prof. Carroll Quigley, “Tragedy and Hope”, 1966
“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
— David Rockefeller, CFR Chairman Emeritus, “Memoirs”, 2002