Crony Capitalism? No Rush, Let’s Call It What It Really Is

Conservative Talk Radio hosts are willfully missing the truth of what America is being transformed into.

Perhaps they do not want to sound like a ‘conspiracy freak’.  Perhaps they do not want to sound alarming or cross an invisible line they know the Left will go berserk over.  But for some reason, the voices of Conservatism are using a term to describe the corruption and perversion of business and corporations by the Obama regime that gives the radical Left in this country – more ammunition to pummel their ideological hatred of our former core mechanism of wealth creation.

The term they keep using is ‘Crony Capitalism’.  That’s a term I’m formally taking issue with, because what is occurring is something far more sinister than just a simple case of political graft and corruption.

I am fond of hearing the Conservative radio hosts espouse the fact that ‘words mean things’.  Good.  Because yes, they do.  Losing our language is one of many reasons this post-Constitutional Republic is foundering.  Our society led by the Obama media machine refuses to call sin what it is,  refuses to call Jihadists what they are – but incessantly call what we used to consider to be good, evil, and celebrates evil as good.  Something the Bible says woe to those that do (Isaiah 5:20).

Plain words and their meaning are something the Left in this country have bastardized to their advantage by controlling the language and crafting the narrative to fit their agenda. They twist words to pervert their meaning and then use them as a bludgeon on their opposition.  At the same time, the Conservative Movement, being attacked by not only the Left, but the Ruling Class of their own party – are growing timid in calling things what they are, as if walking on eggshells is going to win over anyone to our ideological side.

The Left employs a rule weapon of their own design that says that the moment someone invokes Hitler or Nazism to make a comparison – they automatically lose the argument.  Well – I never agreed to any such rule in the first place – and we’re at war with the Left as far as I’m concerned – so to hell with their rules. I never granted them such authority as to dictate how an argument must be made.   I prefer to call things what they are.  However, I think many are cowed by these types of ‘rules’ the Left sets up and they sometimes do not call things what they are to avoid an insult or a label.  Others may refuse to make such comparisons because doing so they estimate is somehow an affront to history and trivializes the horrors suffered.  I say nonsense.  Such comparisons should serve as a warning of history repeating itself because we forget history.

Why am I taking issue with Conservatives using the term ‘Crony Capitalism’ to describe what the Obama regime and the Ruling Class are doing?  Because that term is not what is actually taking place.

Leftists are succeeding in convincing America that the entire concept of Capitalism is evil, flawed and wrong. They will point to pundits like Limbaugh and Levin who use the term ‘Crony Capitalism’ as some kind of ‘proof’ that Capitalism is not only evil evidenced by the term itself, but wholly corruptible and therefore must be discarded.  While certainly cronyism is at play and has been an issue in politics in America for as long as anyone can remember (Cook County, IL anyone?) – Obama and his Democrats have taken it to a level far above and beyond cronyism and graft.

Rush made a comment on his radio program on Wednesday that triggered this essay.  As he was describing what is being institutionalized across our nation at the local, state and federal level, I recognized it as something other than what he did.

Now, folks, I don’t want to be misunderstood.  I’m a capitalist.  Don’t get me wrong.  But look at all the bailouts that have taken place.  Part of capitalism is when something fails, it fails.  When an investment doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.  You can’t bail out everybody.  And once you start picking people you’re bailing out, then you’ve got crony capitalism, and that ain’t good.  And what we have now, you have these various bailouts, you have government funding, chosen industries which can’t make it on their own and often can’t even make it with government help. All the Solyndras, for example, and right now the electric cars. I don’t mean to harp on them, but you take your pick.  Industries that can’t make it and therefore shouldn’t, the market will always tell you the truth about things.  Industries that shouldn’t make it then get propped up.  That is not capitalism, and it’s artificial.  It isn’t real.

Winners and losers are being picked by the government and you no longer have capitalism and you longer have free markets.  And now there are corporate entities who care about immigration for one reason only:  cheap labor.  What happens in the country, couldn’t care less.  They’re citizens of the world.  They’re gonna have customers wherever.  So they’re not ideologically sympathetic any longer.  So, folks, we have to admit here that despite all the talk about the middle class and class warfare, big government, crony capitalism, crony socialism, seems to be the objective of both parties now.

What Rush describes here is something far more sinister and oppressive than the term ‘crony capitalism’ conveys.  What Rush described is not crony capitalism.

It’s fascism.  A Mussolini-styled form of Fascism.

And that IS the objective of both political parties and any business or corporation that stands to make a profit by getting in bed with government.

Fascism in it’s purest sense is Socialism with a Capitalist facade, continuing the illusion that wealth and property are still sovereign in the hands of the individual, while the state regulates and directs it.

Sheldon Richman at the Library of Economics and Liberty defines it this way:

Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.

Is that not exactly what Rush described on his radio program excerpt above?  Compare the institutionalization of what we see happening by the Ruling Class and business under Obama and what Sheldon defines here as Fascism (my proofs in parenthesis):

Under fascism, the state, through official cartels (IRS, EPA, DHS, OSHA, USDA, et al.), controlled all aspects of manufacturing, commerce, finance, and agriculture. Planning boards set product lines, production levels, prices, wages, working conditions, and the size of firms (are you paying attention?  ObamaCare anyone?). Licensing was ubiquitous; no economic activity could be undertaken without government permission. Levels of consumption were dictated by the state, and “excess” incomes had to be surrendered as taxes or “loans” (Tax the rich, ban large sodas, eat more arugula, etc.)

Any of this sound familiar?  It should. It’s the transformational process we are currently witnessing taking shape by the hand of Obama and his ‘cartels’ in all the Alphabet agencies of government.  What Sheldon defines of Fascism is already being implemented in full by Obama.  And the Drones and the Welfare Class are cheering for it.  But there’s more in Sheldon’s definition of Fascism, and this is essentially what Rush himself was describing:

Fascism embodied corporatism, in which political representation was based on trade and industry rather than on geography. In this, fascism revealed its roots in syndicalism, a form of socialism originating on the left. The government cartelized firms of the same industry, with representatives of labor and management serving on myriad local, regional, and national boards—subject always to the final authority of the dictator’s economic plan. Corporatism was intended to avert unsettling divisions within the nation, such as lockouts and union strikes. The price of such forced “harmony” was the loss of the ability to bargain and move about freely.

Corporatism, cartelizing firms,  government boards, always subject to the final authority of a dictator’s economic plan.  This is what is being done under Obama – a true Imperial Presidency burgeoning on a defacto dictatorship.

Benito Mussolini established Fascism as Italy’s economic model.  As a Marxist, he modified the aspects of full government control by using Class warfare and declaring individuals who resist the ‘collective’ as being ‘selfish’.

“The citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity. The Fascist State with its corporative conception puts men and their possibilities into productive work and interprets for them the duties they have to fulfill”. – Benito Mussolini, Biography (p. 280)

The overall theme of Obama’s economics and the Democrat party itself is embodied in what Mussolini himself wrote.   The Left in this country declares those who do not embrace them and their policies as ‘anti-social’ (racists, bigots, homophobes etc.). Anyone recall Obama lecturing us about “collective salvation”?

“The citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity”.

This is what Obama is actually talking about folks; Fascism.  It’s what ‘collective salvation’ means.  He’s transforming America into a Fascist state right before our eyes.

Using the term ‘Crony Capitalism’ diminishes what is actually taking shape.

So let’s call them what they are – and what they are institutionalizing what it is.

If we want to be original – since much of what the Obama regime and the Democrat party is doing is a hybrid of Marxism, Socialism and Fascism – I choose to refer to Obama and the Ruling Class in this country as MARXOFASCISTS.

Solyndra – Crony Capitalism? WORSE – It’s More Like Soviet Fascism

Obama has melded aspects of both systems together to give us corruption on a national scale only banana republics used to be able to hold a candle to.

By INVAR

I just love the way SadHill News tells it like it needs to be told: without any punches and with full sarcasm and disdain for the kind of institutionalized corruption usually limited to the province of despotic island regimes.  You just HAVE to check out their blog on this sickening and in-our-face fascism to get the full feel of the giant Obama middle finger shoved up our collective taxpayer butts.

But before I snip a few relevant and brilliant points made there – I want to make a notation about a term the talk radioheads and pundits are using in regards to this scandal, and correct a gross misapplication of that term.

Most of the talk radio hosts I’ve heard have referred to the Obama/Solyndra scandal as a pure example of ‘crony capitalism’.  I’m offended by that usage, because what Obama has done there is not a bastardization of Capitalism, but the implementation of something far more sinister.

One thing the Left has done, is to hijack our language and set their own terms of definement; “Investments’ now refer to tax increases.  “Terrorists and racists” refers to Conservative Americans and so on.

So the talk radio hosts, from Rush Limbaugh, to my hero Mark Levin – have made reference to this Solyndra scandal as ‘crony capitalism’.  Even Sarah Palin made the remark that the Obama regime is “Crony Capitalism on Steroids”.

I beg to disagree, what Obama is doing- is not ‘crony capitalism’.  Doing so suggests that Capitalism in itself is an easily bastardized and manipulated system, and it’s what gives fuel to those who suggest America’s very foundation was founded on a flawed system.  The Solyndra scandal, and everything from the nationalization of GM to ObamaCare  is Fascist Sovietism or Crony Socialism if you like.  It has NOTHING to do with Capitalism, or free markets.  It’s a version of Chicagoland graft and kickbacks but with an insidious twist: the institutionalized implementation of Fascism melded with attributes of raw Socialist Sovietism.

And it’s in the open.  Hiding in plain sight, in-our-faces.  Not even the Chicago Union mobs are as brazen about their corruption as Obama’s regime is demonstrating.

Because they don’t care.  It’s not about corruption anymore.

This is about the transformation of our entire society.

Because this is about a revolution to bury our society.  To take over and dictate that this is how business is done and handled by government dictat.

Want to keep your company?  Better play Obama’s game and contribute to his regime – or you will end up like Gibson Guitars.

And Obama has waged it in plain view, and brazenly.

He has implemented, with our consent and some mild opposition – Fascism under the usual Marxist guises of fairness, security, global warming, and Social Justice.

Now – the main fact of the Solyndra scandal that the media will not report is this:

Solyndra ‘Green’ Executives: $100,000+ In Obama Donations And 20+ White House Trips

That’s how Soviet-styled Fascism works.  Obama TAKES taxpayer funds, to give it to those who support HIS campaign and WALA!  Free White House lodging, and a Politburo using Alphabet agencies furiously to destroy all the industries Obama has targeted to be replaced.  Made in USA companies that do not donate to Democrats – wiped out, while those who contribute to the Party are protected. Cheap, efficient energy sources in the country forced into bankruptcy so as to force us all into solar and wind power by dictate of the state.  I don’t know how you get crony Capitalism out of that.  That’s raw Soviet Fascism on parade.

As SadHill News points out:

Receive sensationalism laced with carefully selected talking points that mask giant government takeover.

Government? This is not government. This is an auction where policy goes to the highest bidder:

…As TheDC previously reported, Solyndra officials, including Kaiser himself, donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Barack Obama.

This is all just the tip of the iceberg of what many Conservatives are erringly calling ‘crony Capitalism’ when it is nothing of the sort. This is life behind the Iron Curtain, under the oppressive thumb of Soviet-styled Marxists using the Mussolini Fascism model to achieve the fundamental transformation of America that Obama was talking about from the beginning.

We just did not believe it could happen here.