“Banana Republic” is a term to describe governments with countries that suffer from lack of democracy and corruption. How the United States fits the description of a “banana republic”:
An extremely stratified social class with a large impoverished working class and an ultra-rich ruling-class plutocracy with a lack of a middle class and lack of upward mobility: The U.S. has had the highest income inequality and lowest upward mobility of any country in the developed world for several years, and it keeps worsening.
Government’s corrupt connection with big business: As in fascist countries, U.S. conservative politicians have supported the merger of state and corporate power by removing regulations, giving corporations billions of dollars in tax cuts and subsidies, and putting banks and corporations above the law. The person occupying the Oval Office is profiting with millions—possibly trillions—from domestic groups and foreign government encouraged to use his businesses despite his constitutional…
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
Marxism, fascism, and monarchies have great similarities with each other regarding the conditions of the rulers and the ruled and distances between each other. The absolute power of the rulers will corrupt absolutely. Dictatorship of the proletariat? Ha, what a joke; as David Rockefeller saw, it will be a dictatorship over the proletariat. He lauded Mao and Communism.
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Marblenecltr, I think what Rockefeller liked about Communist China was its centrally planned economy – something extremely difficult in a country where planning is limited to the next electoral cycle.
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You are much too nice about him; he liked subsistence level wages for workers, and he thought that the deaths of sixty million was worth it for a system that would bring it about. If the labor costs get too high, there will be an abundance of more cheap suicide worthy workers on an earth of seven billion people.
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Yep, it’s a Banana Republic, alright. And things are only going to get worse. There is no one who is going to gallop in on a white horse and save the day. And anyone who thinks that Trump is some sort of savior needs their head examined. He has only added to the issues the poor working stiffs are experiencing. Look at how many people found themselves unemployed when his casinos went belly up while he still managed to slink away without feeling the pinch they did. If I didn’t know how stupid Americans are, I would have been surprised that they could look at Donald Trump’s business track record and vote him into the presidency because what he did to Atlantic City, he is going to do to America and those who support him must be already brain dead since they are still simply thrilled with him cutting off lifeline after lifeline and setting them out on the streets. This mess over here is seriously crazed and insane since they think that the coming shitstorm is going to be fun. And you cannot wake them up. They are too far gone for that to happen.
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Expressing myself as well as I can with my dead brain, I have to write that our decline began way be for Donald Trump was born, let alone elected president. He is rescuing our nation from the quicksand of the swamp, a situation caused by lack of following the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Act, imposition of the unconstitional Federal Reserve Bank, attempted banker-funded military coup of 1933, FDR confiscation of gold, assassinations, wars, overnight creation of a declared enemy to an object of love and creation of a great military threat at American taxpayer expense, Nixon taking us off the gold standard and opening the doors for export of our industrial base to a Marxist state for import of goods produced in factories requiring suicide nets, creation of the petrodollar destruction of Glass-Steagall, PNAC, 911, carpal tunnel syndrome as I write this, ….
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Marblenecltr, I must admit I have mixed feelings about Trump. I’m still glad Hillary wasn’t elected. If she had been, I believe we would be at war with Iran at this moment. I also believe that America’s downfall began long before Trump was elected. At the same time I have a big problem with Trump’s tax cuts for the rich coupled with social service cuts and a shrinking job market that is leading to increased homelessness and malnutrition – in many cases among people who voted for Trump and who (for some reason) continue to champion his support for the Wall Street hacks who financed his campaign. In this way, I agree with Shelby. I hate to see people so totally manipulated in this way.
In my personal view Trump was selected by the wealthy elite to oversee the downfall of the US empire. I honestly don’t see any swamp cleaning happening – if anything the neocons and neoliberals in Trump’s cabinet are more powerful than ever. They run the show in Washington DC and Trump is given very little say in anything. The billionaires that run the US political system are going to squeeze the last bit of juice out of the lemon before they discard it.
The only positive thing I see about Trump is that he is challenging the conventional narrative about globalization and free trade, as well as the total domination of the corporate media by US intelligence. I am really glad the US pulled out of TPP, a nasty treaty aimed at handing world domination to multinational corporations.
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I agree with some of what you say, after all, people who disagree with me can’t be wrong all the time (joke), but just to respond briefly, most of the extremely wealthy, including the Bush and Rockefeller families, hate Donald Trump and have been in power so long that it is almost impossible for him to obtain people to help him and our country. The Bush family was for Hillary; unfortunately, they probably don’t follow your blog, so you were unable to help them with their thinking.
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Sad to say, I agree with the author’s conclusions.
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Same here, Rosaliene.
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I have to agree with much Lady Stuartbramhall and Sir Shelbycourtland wrote, for I too, Lord Marblenecltr have compassion for those beneath me, the very few beneath me. Scenes of war, poverty, and disease is before us, and we should do what we can to better the circumstances. I remember President Kennedy trying to get the real unemployment rate down (and it was much lower than it is today, along with controlling interest rates. If I have the figure right, interest at four percent or higher was criminal usury, but, because of the V
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Vietnam War, rates and inflation took place. Correction of our conditions may take a little time, and we should do all we can to make it as easy as possible for all. One step should be reversing the trend of luring/driving here many people who will hinder those efforts and upsetting our voting system by bringing in those who don’t like us a nd our Constituional system.
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