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Dennis Leahy
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The problem with attempting to differentiate a single corporation (the basic "unit" of capitalism since the 1800s) from the Global Corporate Network is the
network.
Trump has his own corporate assets, but they are but a dot on the following 3D cloud chart:
https://images.newscientist.com/wp-c....500-3_600.jpg
The study author's main emphasis is the interconnectedness of the corporations - a global network of corporations.
The red dots are "superconnected" corporations, and the yellow dots are "connected" corporations. This graphic represents the Global Corporate Network, that Trump and every other office-holder of high office is fed by. Not all of them have a dot (Trump's dot is probably pretty tiny), but they are all fed by this network. Even if Trump didn't have his own tiny dot, he would at best be shaking an empty fist at the Global Corporate Network (like Sanders does) while at the same time suckling on it.
Is Trump going after the "Deep State" or just the Democrats that "done him wrong?" (It appears to me that he has a right to be pissed off at the criminal actions of the DNC against him personally, the whole bull**** 'Russiagate' nonsense - especially within the reality of Israel's actual vector and degree of control over elections and US foreign policy. But it ain't actually the Deep State/oligarchs.)
Is Trump fighting the Deep State by imprisoning Assange - one of, if not 'thee', greatest threat to the Deep State? (Oh, I know, Q probably calls it 'protective custody.') Or fighting the Deep State by attacking Venezuela? Or attacking and occupying Syria? Or by shoveling taxpayer money to the military industrial complex corporations which are clearly one of the largest assets/moneymakers for the Global Corporate Network? Other than going after the Democrats (who are indeed controlled by the Deep State, as are the Republicans), just exactly what is Trump doing to end fascism, to end the control of the US government by the Deep State? I noted in a post of yours elsewhere, that you give Trump a pass on following the militarist imperialist agenda of the GCN/oligarchs/deep state, as if he could do nothing about the fact that he stepped into an ongoing agenda and is simply along for the ride. If the GCN has Trump too scared or impotent to do anything about the USA's greatest connection to and collaboration with the GCN (the US military and military industrial complex corporations), and too scared or impotent to do anything about the intelligence/security state, then why is he given something between a pass and hero worship?
Really, specific discussion of Trump or any other individual politician is off topic in this thread, and I am now guilty of doing it as well. We're never going to discuss the real issues if we keep falling back to discussing politicians rather than the oligarchs/GCN/deep state that controls those politicians. Trump is not the enemy, he is an asset of the enemy of the people of the USA and the world.
Perhaps I should come in at this from another angle. We are on the same page identifying the problem. However, I am not suggesting the "Deep State Corporatists" and the "Capitalist Populists" maintain mutually exclusive interests.
https://s16-us2.startpage.com/cgi-bi...fdfd23431ce1af.
Let's just say, for sake of illustration the "Deep State" represents the Kings in the image above and "Trumpism" represents the Hearts... They both don't give a damn about the Endangered Species Act
or Juiian Assange. Trump is rogue and has foolishly (and arbitrarily) followed some policy advice from his neo-con advisors, while at times he has agitated the very same advisors by ignoring similarly-delivered advise. On these matters
there is no consistency in this Administration, which suggests to me a situation just the oppose of being controlled. In other words, being manipulated and/or cajoled by said interests is not the same as being controlled by said interests. On these issues, among others, we may refer to the
King of Hearts in the image... Anyway, you get the gist.
All this really has nothing to do with the Democrats; they just so happen to be the most vocal political mouthpiece of the Kings at the moment (I would also point out that it was not too long ago that both Democrats and Republicans were firmly in this Deep State bloc. Both parties adamantly opposed Trump, we sometimes forget, until Trump hijacked, co-opted, and essentially commandeered the latter political party, essentially bending it to his will).
In sum, I am not refuting the problem. What I
am refuting is the notion of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss, puppet of said problem..." That's not what is going on, in my estimation. We can avoid talk about specific politicians if it serves the topic best, but in my view The GCN/Deep State bloc does not control DJT.... there is something much more complicated going on here. If we can't continue our discussion on this premise it won't serve our mutual understanding of the problem, in my humble estimation.
Of course we can agree to disagree on this point if you judge I am mistaken. And I am of course open to your arguments. What seems clear to me, however, is Trump’s regulatory reforms and anti-corporatist policies favor the Hearts (save for the King of Hearts), e.g. the small businesses and a brand of throw-back capitalism counter to corporatist interests, whereas the yellow-dotted corporations in your model are best positioned for a regulated global economy, unlimited immigration, and unencumbered foreign access to U.S. markets.
Perhaps most unsettling of all for those who oppose the current Adminstration is not the idea that the GCN/deep State is controlling Trump, but the notion that it is
not controlling the current Administration...