While Entire Governments Don't Come Cheap, This One is Almost Within Grasp of the Rich

STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH

What do you get someone who already has everything? Someone (in the plural) who has made so damn much money over the last decade they have it piled up like cord wood in their backyard. 

That’s pretty much describes America’s top 1%-2%. Now empowered in a way even they never imagined, they can buy anything and, for the most part they’ve done just that. But there’s one thing that they need, something that will keep the good times -- hell, the great times -- rolling for them and theirs. They already have acquired something close to controlling interest in it, but there’s still too much of it in public hands. 

And, while entire governments don’t come cheap, this one is now within their grasp. They have the money, that’s not their problem. What they lack is are enough small shareholders to throw their vote their way, to relinquish their voting rights to The Board of Directors, let them run things from now on. 

But how to do it?

Well, if you’re going to try to persuade people to do something totally alien to their own interests the most powerful tool is a group of their own peers already convinced it’s the right thing to do. Secretly fund them so their peers don’t start asking questions, buy a cable network to produce fake news about your small army of useful fools and set them loose to destabilize and delegitimize what remains of our representative democracy.
So there’s your answer.

That’s what you get those who already have everything -- the power to keep it. The power to crush anyone who tries to take it away.