I've received a few words from readers claiming discontent with the sameness of my blogs. I plead guilty. I do play the same song in different octaves, and I am a Johnny One-Note.

This blog has but a few objectives, to tell the American people--in as many ways as I can--how they've been fooled into believing they live in a true democracy, when they don't. How the rich of America have waged a one-sided economic war against them with unfair and obscenely low-wage jobs that have caused poverty, financial stress, and the sicknesses and the nasty relational adjustments caused by these low-wage jobs.

It's to tell them that in 1787 a "representative" democracy could not be found anywhere on the planet. Such a concept didn't exist. It was merely a concoction of the privileged delegates to the Constitutional Convention to fool American commoners that they were being given a democracy. It was to stop all talk of democracy by American commoners who had sacrificed much during the conflict to win their freedom from the English king and who expected a voice in their new government.

It's to tell common Americans that in 1787 the thirteen colonies did have a Constitution in effect and that the delegates to the "Constitutional Convention" were authorized only to make changes to the existing constitution and not to create a new one. Furthermore, by using Special Conventions to ratify their new document they broke the law. Article XIII of the Articles of Confederation claims “Every State shall abide by the determination of the united States in congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a congress of the united States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State."

What Article XIII means is that using Special Conventions for ratification of their proposed Constitution rather than existing state legislatures was illegal and, therefore, their results are also illegal. It means the Constitution of the United States is an anti-democratic document that was created and ratified by privileged Americans of each state to fool common Americans that they were being given true democracy, and to halt their talk of democracy. It means the common citizens of the United States have never voted on whether, or not, to accept the document, or the corrupt political system under which they have lived for more than 200 years.

This is my song. Actually it's only one riff--a repeated melody.

Another riff concerns the public's complaint that corporations and their lobbyists have too much influence on the Congress, and that we have become a corporate state. But, this is simply because we live in a money society, and those with the most money can do much as they please without worrying about hurting anyone, or the negative consequences to the environment. It means the American minority who are rich Americans, influence the decisions of Congress more than do the common majority. This is merely another signpost that the U.S. isn't a government of the people, by the people, or for the people. A quick study of true American history will reveal that it has never been of, by, or for the people, but primarily of the rich It's also the reason more than fifty-percent of the republic's annual income is taken by the top one-percent of the republic's citizens while the remaining income is shared by the other ninety-nine-percent. In the U.S., it's the reason why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Corporate ownership and management truly is a world of privilege. Rich Americans safeguard much of their wealth by investing in corporations. They also use these corporations to take advantage of wealth-making opportunities, such as corporate takeovers. These people are truly capitalists. Commoner Americans owning a few shares of common stock in various corporations, but not a voice in how these corporations run, believe they are also capitalists. This is sheer nonsense. It, obviously, isn't so. Rich Americans have simply guaranteed themselves that commoners have as little voice in the corporate world as they have in the political. Because these commoners believe they are true capitalists, they haven't analyzed the situation to its logical conclusions.

But the upsetting fact about this horrendous lack of commoner understanding is that the marriage of corporations and government: a society in which government favors corporations over the citizenry, and in which some large corportions cannot exist without government subsidies and government aid, has traditionally been called a "fascist state." Surprised? Why? The term"fascism" was coined by the Italian dictator, Mussolini. If anyone, he should know what fascism is, or isn't. In his last years, Mussolini admitted he had made a mistake in naming the incestuous relationship between the state and the corporate world "fascism," and that rightfully it should be called "corporatism." So, it isn't incorrect to call the U.S. society a "fascist" society.

Perhaps, middle-class and poorer Americans had better give serious thought to whether it would be better to raise their children in the fascist society the U.S. has become, or a true democratic society, which can become reality only if they unite to make it reality?