Terror Capitalism Revisited

My blogmate Steve Dock has characterized his term “terror capitalism”as “the deliberate long-term strategic and tactical use of fear, intimidation, ideology, and economic power for the benefit of an elite group of owners of massive capital resources.”

Steve came up with this definition, which I’ve written about before, even before Donald Trump became president, but it is a perfect description of what Trump and his band of economic, political, and social cutthroats have been doing all their stunted and evil lives and could  have what appears now to be a clear path to maketerror capitalism the operating philosophy of this so-called government and its corporate sponsors and masters.

Almost every cabinet position has been filled by unabashedly shameless vermin of greed and corruption, and Donald Trump has given them free rein to exploit whatever aspects of our economy, society, environment, and morality come within their endlessly greedy grasp. 

John D. Rockefeller was once asked if he had enough money and power, and his answer was that he wanted “just a little bit more.” Trump’s harlots want it all no matter the cost and will not cease their total villainy until they are turned out or, better yet, destroyed.

And they are open-handedly aided and abetted by what remains of the Congress of the United States, which is controlled – for now -- by a tribal Republican coterie of cowardly lickspittles, more concerned with their own and Trump’s political salvation than any consideration of the citizens they are sworn to serve. They are the worst kinds of traitors. I only hope that I live long enough to see these dark forces of destruction repaid with interest for their total calumny and brutality.

I am torn, as is this great country itself. Day after day, I see endless and the most obvious of political and personal sins – and crimes – committed with no accountability. I say to myself in true and utter amazement, “They just don’t care. There is no limit to their vileness.” And I see so many of the people of America going about their daily business as usual, either uncaring themselves or benumbed by the endless strokes of terror capitalism. I have lived through and seen much in my times, but this America that has wrought Donald Trump is a strange and fearful place to me now.

And yet America is still also a fine and even a noble nation, and I strain to see a new dawning, a return to the America that has birthed and sustained me, a country and a spirit of real pride and greatness, not a cynical slogan on a red baseball hat. 

I had never known that I possess such a deep strain of patriotism, but the unleashing of this unending torrent 

of terror capitalism has touched something deep and unyielding in me, as it has in so many others, and we 

will stand and be counted, we will fight, and we must and will win, or America will be lost and consigned to 

the dustbin of history, failed by itself.