Liberty Quotient of the Subjugated
Self Power/CORPOCRACY POWER
- autocracy
- bureaucracy
- corpocracy
- democracy
- kleptocracy
- mobocracy (yes, it’s a word)
- monocracy
- plutocracy
- technocracy
- theocracy
- timocracy
The word “corpocracy” hasn’t made it yet into the dictionary, unlike the other “cracies,” or into public conversations as far as I know.1 “Cracy” is derived from the Greek “kartia” for power. The corpocracy exemplifies regime power, the getting of more and more of it and the continuous abuse of it in serving its own interests at a terrible cost to public interests and the common good. Power, but a very different kind of power, is also a defining characteristic of “democracy.”
There is such an inherent conflict between these two “cracies” that they can’t co-exist in the same nation and they don’t coexist in America. In America the corpocracy rules with tyrannical-like power. The self-ruling democracy power of the people has been taken from the people.
The Devil’s Marriage
Where did the power of the people go?
To a marriage made in Hell did it flow.
Leaving democracy in the lurch,
Jilting Americans and much worse.
Not a Shotgun Wedding
The marriage was anything but a shotgun wedding. It was a wedding for the sake of mutual “badvantages” (advantages for all sorts of bad behavior, legal and illegal). Both partners compromised (some critics might say “corrupted”) each other. Both got huge, unending dowries. Corporations (most but…