Today the almost universal belief by the public in those two myths—--which are nurtured ceaselessly by government, academia, and all of the news media---has rendered the public totally incapable of maintaining its political sovereignty and of preventing the power-grab by the Washington politicians and the coalition which controls them.

Realistically, the role of the federal government (at least since 1865) has been to function as the marketing department for the prevailing special-interests who own most of the country, to persuade/fool the public (as far as possible) into permitting the government to be run so as to enrich the special interests—--often to the direct detriment of the nation. (Thus, the most-critical skill of every Washington politician is that of actor.)

But if the political party in power misjudged that balance-point and went too far in screwing the nation and the public to enrich the special interests, then it was voted out of office and the opposing party was voted in, to apply a markedly different set of policies. Thus, until now there were always political limits; so the politicians at least pretended to defer to the will of the public in all things, and actually had to defer to them in some important ones. And there were real differences in policy between the two political parties for the public to choose from. Therefore, the two-party system did work—after a fashion; and the public did exercise some sovereignty.

Then along came socialism. It has been fairly easy for the student of American history to determine that the drive on the part of the liberal intellectuals for a socialist government in America goes back to 1888—--when Edward Bellamy wrote a science-fiction novel entitled, Looking Backward, which subsequently enraptured many, if not most, of the leading intellectuals (such as John Dewey) with the utopian dream of a future totalitarian socialist government in America which would eliminate poverty, illiteracy, and crime.

What is conspicuously missing from our history books is any real discussion of when the American supercapitalists also became enamored of socialism--—and it is that omission which enables the political myths to endure.

The myths hold that business hates government regulation, and that the Republican party is the party of business; therefore the Republican party must always stand for limited government (while the Democratic party favors big government). But the reality is that only small and medium-size businesses hate government regulation. Big business embraces it; and it is big business that controls the important cash-flow and has the huge treasury necessary to buy up and control the Washington politicians.

The two men who were most instrumental in shaping the economy (and thus, indirectly, much of the social structure) of 20th century America were J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, both of whom focused upon developing previously undreamed of economies-of-scale in American industry--—Rockefeller in the oil industry (Standard Oil); and Morgan, as a merchant banker at a time when investment capital was scarce, in a number of industries, but most-notably, steelmaking (U.S. Steel) and electrical equipment (General Electric), and the railroads.

We are taught to think of both men as rugged individualists who viewed government as the enemy. But in fact, as historian Ron Chernow points out in two separate biographies of them, Titan, and The House of Morgan, both men were really control freaks. Both deplored competition in business, as being unruly, messy, and costly; both preferred a planned economy for the U.S.; and each one stated publicly that his first choice would be a planned economy which he himself had planned, but failing that, a planned economy which was conducted by the federal government. (The fact that each man controlled such vast amounts of money that he knew he could “persuade” the government legislators and regulators to see things his way might have had something to do with that viewpoint.) And that has been the real viewpoint and objective of truly-big business in America ever since.

After the turn of the 20th century, the supercapitalists decided that the only way they could get cooperative planned economies regulating industry both in the U.S. and other countries would be by engineering both a socialist world-government and a socialist U.S. government; such governments would regulate the lives of the citizens so closely that no one would then notice that the supercapitalists were pulling all the strings. Thus, in the election of 1912, the J.P. Morgan interests attempted to hook up with the socialists by bankrolling Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive (“Bull Moose”) party, which had essentially stolen the platform of the Socialist party and was far, far to the left of Woodrow Wilson’s Democrats. And the Morgan interests plunked down the big bucks for TR and his socialist agenda even though TR had shot down one of Morgan’s railroad trusts during his previous presidency.

In 1921, it was primarily Morgan and Rockefeller money that funded the creation of the Council on Foreign Relations, which immediately began pressing the Washington politicians to hand over much of the sovereignty of the U.S. to the League of Nations, and then made the same demands regarding the socialist United Nations after FDR unleashed that global government upon the world toward the end of WWII.

But it was during the turmoil of the Great Depression (and mostly during FDR’s socialist reign) that the supercapitalists who control the capital and the ideological socialists who shape public opinion finally arrived at their necessary compromises and their loose coalition to promote socialism in America. (If you study the prehistory and history of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, you can see the outlines forming.)

Today you can tell that the sympathies of the CEOs of most of the huge multinationals in the U.S. are clearly with the secular socialists, by noting that the philanthropic foundations (the Ford Foundation, etc.) which they sponsor are funding radical-left causes almost exclusively; and the personnel policies of their corporations are generally far to the left of mainstream America with respect to the hot-button social issues. (And, for example, it was big business in Atlanta, not the black activists, who kept lighting fires under the governors and the legislatures to get rid of the 1956 Georgia flag with its battle flag emblem.)

During the last half of the 20th century, the supercapitalist/socialist coalition bought up most of the Washington politicians, with the U.S. news media carefully shielding the public from any knowledge of that disaster, while they continued to perpetuate the myth of the small-government Republicans and the big-government Democrats. So....the public continues to believe.

5. The Ramifications of Living in a Single-Party Nation

In the U.S., all political power is now in the hands of the politicians, who take their orders from the coalition of supercapitalists and ideological socialists. And that does not bode well for our nation. Alas, the control-freak socialists (the liberals) have been so in love with the utopian dreams of Rousseau and Marx that they have never really examined the political structure of the U.S., to identify its specific strengths and dangerous vulnerabilities. They automatically assume that the U.S. is bureaucratically bulletproof, and that no change they might introduce—--no matter how drastic—--can possible do it real harm.

For example, by gutting the U.S. public education system to serve their various botched social agendas (black civil-rights, a bill of rights for children, giving the children “self-esteem,” indoctrinating the children as good liberals, etc.), the liberals have downgraded the quality of the U.S. work-force to the point that the U.S. is rapidly losing its ability to compete economically with the better educated nations of the world. Although this point should seem obvious, it doesn’t occur to the liberals, and they don’t want to know about it. Their “philosophy” of secular humanism is actually a religion (in which man is god); and unlike Christianity, it ignores the realities of human nature, and is far, far more concerned with process and intent than with results.

And the supercapitalists have focused so tightly upon satisfying their own specific selfish economic demands that they have never known or cared whether those demands would help or hinder the survival and growth of the U.S. as a nation. Thus our current national policies regarding the security of our borders; the exportation of our manufacturing to countries with cheap labor; our energy policy which favors the environmentalist control-freaks and the hustlers who grow rich off them; and our contradictory dealings with China—--all of which will contribute to our national suicide. And if that were not bad enough, our Middle East policy is being dictated by the Zionist Jews purely to benefit the nation of Israel; and it is leading the U.S. into a totally unnecessary global religious war.

In addition, although mankind has never advanced to the point where we are capable of running any mature bureaucracy such that it will continue to serve its stated purpose, in anything approaching an economical and effective manner, nevertheless the ruling coalition is committed to growing both the UN and the U.S. government into all-encompassing and all-powerful bureaucratic organizations which will regulate tightly every aspect of the lives of the public.

Worst of all, the socialists’ key weapon of political correctness, employed almost universally by the liberals to enforce their black-civil-rights campaign upon America unrelentingly since the 1950s, has, in effect, turned the U.S. media into America’s Thought Police; and political correctness has proven to be such a potent weapon in their hands (after all, the U.S. news-and-entertainment media do constitute the most-powerful propaganda organization that the world has ever seen) that it has largely quashed the moral courage of the American public, and turned us into a nation of moral cowards. Americans are now simply a bunch of cattle being run through the stockyards by our masters, the Washington politicians.

The single-party system in America has now converted the public from citizens into subjects, and it conducts the affairs of America in the self-destruct mode dictated by the uncaring socialists and supercapitalists to satisfy their own immediate demands; and there is nothing that the voters can do about it under the current system.

"The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects, and what they thus lost they have never got back." --H.L. Mencken