Fostering corporate interests over the people’s is ‘fascist corporatism’

Freedom and responsibility are two words bandied about by our politicians a lot lately. I don’t believe they understand the meanings, and if they do they are liars and hypocrites.

In the Ayn Rand world of social Darwinism, freedom means the freedom to die if you are poor, sick, elderly — or actually, anyone who is not a member of some New World Order, the 1 percent of 1 percent. They’re the few of the few with loads of healthy child slaves to keep their world running, but you probably won’t be one of them. Even 10,000 rounds won’t help you. A handful of bullets is all you will need to put you and your family out of misery.

It is also the freedom to be a slave; the freedom to work two or three jobs for food and shelter; the freedom to “rent” your home from some bank, some insurance company and some government for 30 years (you think you own your home?). Orwell was pretty clear about “freedom is slavery.”

It is the freedom to give David Koch and his America Legislative Exchange Council minions his fair share — “all of it.”

And certainly you can’t claim to be a Christian and anything remotely “Randish.” Even she would have called you the worst kind of liar. The words in red are the exact opposite of Randianism.

Some even say this is the heart of Libertarianism. But it wasn’t until the communist/Bircher whacko Lyndon LaRouche confused the issue. He wasn’t always crazy, but his paranoia of his Communist brothers drove him mad and he even embraced the KKK. No, Libertarianism is about women’s rights, labor organization and anarchy in a property-less society. Libertarianism is free love and unity, not a Schiller Institute/Ron Paul rant.

What does this have to do with anything? Well, it has to do with school vouchers, it has to do with oil and Permanent Fund giveaways, it has to do with Sharia law, it has to do with Kenyan witch doctors in Wasilla, and mostly it has to do with a strange hysteria that has folks rightly outraged at the loss of civil liberties while at the same time voting in politicians whose very purpose is to take them away.

The most topical issue is the oil giveaway. The $9 billion the governor and his folks want to give — and that is the right word — to the oil companies because they asked for the gift. Of course, these folks make up stuff like Alaska’s tax structure is out of line, or this will make BP or Conoco or Exxon make oil flow through the pipeline from some moral obligation, even if it were against their stockholders’ interest and illegal to do so. They’ve made up loads of stuff.

Why would anyone do such a stupid thing? It’s freedom and responsibility in a warped and twisted way. First, despite our Alaska Constitution, Gov. Sean Parnell views the oil as belonging to the oil companies and not the people. The people don’t work for the oil so why should they benefit? It just makes folks lazy. It’s much the same argument we hear from all Randians despite it is a fascist, not Libertarian, assertion. The notion is only the corporation requires freedom to act and people need to feed the corporation because that is where all things come from. It is a false argument. We feed the corporation and a very, very, very few benefit. But still, this lie of some egalitarian and benevolent beast persists. Perhaps it works because of the twisted religion ¬— which brings up responsibility.

Parnell and his legislative lackeys (really Koch brothers ALEC lackeys) really believe that they can abrogate their governmental responsibility to spend money for the people. I truly think that they fear they might spend money in a way that might demean the poor or feed them or educate them and keep them out of heaven. Better to just let Wall Street handle this social responsibility. The 1 percent always does what is truly right; job killers for profit.

We see this on a national level with Social Security. Wall Street says give us that money, your money, we will spend it on ourselves and you will have all the security of your 401k accounts and your pensions we wiped out by bankrupting your companies. Bane Capital the USA will sell off the pieces to Saudis and Iranians. We’re happy to pocket the profits from selling your stuff.

Here in Alaska, the oil giveaway also ultimately bankrupts the government again not so different than the ploys used at the national level, and for the same reason. Don’t be surprised if this passes to see a ballot question: “Do you want income taxes or the Alaska Permanent Fund used to pay for government?” I am sure the ALEC scenario, just like with Social Security, goes far beyond the “give away” and shoots to open the Permanent Fund for corporate raiding. After all, it’s really not your money. The oil companies did all the work. Besides, that PFD check is morally bad for you, and especially your children.

A similar thing with school vouchers. Ultimately, the public school system is starved to death. It’s a philosophical problem having the government responsible for educating kids, despite that education is both the basis of personal liberty and responsibility. Educated folks make poor slaves.

School vouchers abrogate government responsibility and turns it to the corporations to tell us how and what our children are allowed to know. Worse, this fits with certain religious notions like the world is 6,000 years old or we should really be allowed to stone women to death.

But that isn’t the true purpose. The true purpose is to turn our tax dollars over to the corporations through the pass through of education. Ultimately, there won’t even be school vouchers. The government will be out of the education business and simply make payments to these companies. They will decide (much like current charter schools) if your child will be allowed to attend their school. Neither you nor the government will be part of the educational system. Responsibility? Sure.

The same goes with Sharia law. Sharia law and Leviticus aren’t much different. In fact, a lot of it is exactly the same (probably even written by the same guy). But that isn’t the point of rejecting Sharia law. The object is to say we wish to live under the laws of Levi. The idea is we can shed the responsibility of law, the laws of our society and abrogate that responsibility to some Bronze Age idol. No longer will law be the responsibility of government, one nation under God instead.

Of course, no less than Jesus taught us there are the laws of God and the laws of man; you know, “render unto Caesar.” Justice and Job for our bible students. Oh, and students of the Qu’ran, too! Same books. No, the issue is not really religious, it is all within the idea of the corporate god.

Parnell, Keller, Dunleavy and the like are not conservatives, they are radical anarchists with the sole aim to destroy government as we know it and turn it over to the corporations. We have the same despotic aims locally with our Mat-Su legislators — proof in the pudding, so to speak. Historically, when government is designed to protect and foster the corporate interest over the people it is called fascist corporatism.

It is the scariest and most totalitarian of all governments of radical authoritarianism. They will come for your guns, too.

Greg Gusse lives and writes in Palmer.