To completely comprehend why democracy is doomed because of the Citizens United unleashing the New Aryans, one must understand how the New Aryans embedded themselves in American society.
One really has to read the report (pdf) of the Union of Concerned Scientists about how the Tobacco Institute developed a sophisticated propaganda model used by many corporate interests to misinform the public to even begin to comprehend how embedded this effort has become.
The many books about the creation of a supra-national elite such as "The Divine Right of Capital" and "Global Capitalism" and "The Transnational Capitalist Class" and "The Global Class War" describe a reality that has existed for several years.
In post-World War II China, the Kuomintang was forced out of mainland China to Formosa. There the international shipping interests worried that the U.S. would not sustain the regime against an attack from the Communist Chinese. To influence the U.S. Congress, the "China Lobby" began financing Republican political campaigns in low population states to bolster their political chances. They could essentially "purchase" two senators with little monetary outlay.
In the United States, prior to the 1960s U.S. Supreme Court decisions enforcing "One man, one vote," the industrialists could gerrymander political control of low population states. However, in the Jim Crow south of the U.S. the political control was dominated by Democrats who benefited from the pseudo slavery imposed on Black Americans. The Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and especially the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s was supported by the Democratic party, thus infuriating the entrenched political structure of the Jim Crow south.
Thus when the mid-1960s saw the triumph of the Civil Rights movement with the Civil Rights Act simultaneously with the blow by the "One man, one vote" decisions to the Republican gerrymandered dominance, it meant that a new strategy was necessary for the Republican party and that became the "Southern Strategy" of empowering the racist leadership of the former Jim Crow Dixiecrats to either become Republican or vote Republican.
This Southern Strategy was modeled on the response of the Tobacco Institute to the effort by the U.S. Surgeon General to outlaw smoking. This effort to paint tobacco as a poison threatened both the multinational tobacco companies and the economy of much of the south.
It was the sophisticated propaganda program of the Tobacco Institute model combined with the example of the China Lobby that merged to create the blueprint for the Republican Southern Strategy to include a major corporate conspiracy to undermine American democracy.
This conspiracy has not been hidden from view. In 1971 a Tobacco Institute lawyer wrote a memorandum to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce titled "Attack of American Free Enterprise System." The memorandum objected to the increasing power of the public to influence their lives, stating:
Current examples of the impotency of business, and of the near-contempt with which businessmen's views are held, are the stampedes by politicians to support almost any legislation related to "consumerism" or to the "environment."
The memorandum's author specifically singled out Ralph Nader and quoted a Fortune magazine article (Fortune. May, 1971, p. 145):
"He thinks, and says quite bluntly, that a great many corporate executives belong in prison -- for defrauding the consumer with shoddy merchandise, poisoning the food supply with chemical additives, and willfully manufacturing unsafe products that will maim or kill the buyer. He emphasizes that he is not talking just about 'fly-by-night hucksters' but the top management of blue chip business."
Ralph Nader was the automotive safety lawyer whose 1965 book "Unsafe at Any Speed" revealed that many American automobiles were defective, especially the Chevrolet Corvair. Nader inspired many public interest lawyers who challenged common corporate practices that threatened public safety, including the environmental pollution such as that which caused the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, to actually catch fire and burn in 1969.
Thus the Tobacco Institute lawyer’s memorandum was specifically targeted at raising corporate opposition to the public interest being raised against malevolent corporations and openly declared:
"The day is long past when the chief executive officer of a major corporation discharges his responsibility by maintaining a satisfactory growth of profits, with due regard to the corporation's public and social responsibilities."
The author cited a need for corporations to appoint top level managers to become politically involved and then proposed a massive conspiracy of corporate activity housed in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce:
But independent and uncoordinated activity by individual corporations, as important as this is, will not be sufficient. Strength lies in organization, in careful long-range planning and implementation, in consistency of action over an indefinite period of years, in the scale of financing available only through joint effort, and in the political power available only through united action and national organizations.
The author of the memorandum also noted, after suggesting multiple propaganda efforts:
But one should not postpone more direct political action, while awaiting the gradual change in public opinion to be effected through education and information. Business must learn the lesson, long ago learned by labor and other self-interest groups. This is the lesson that political power is necessary; that such power must be assidously (sic) cultivated; and that when necessary, it must be used aggressively and with determination -- without embarrassment and without the reluctance which has been so characteristic of American business.
The significance of this memorandum in 1971 by a Tobacco Institute lawyer can be questioned, but the significance was sufficient to have the lawyer, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court shortly afterward by President Richard Nixon.
We have, therefore, a clearly articulated effort to create misinformation in the minds of the public cited by the Union of Concerned Scientists as a model developed by the Tobacco Institute but adopted by corporations in many domains. And we have a memorandum from a prominent Tobacco Institute lawyer articulating the need for the business community to indulge in a massive conspiracy of political action. And that this conspiracy was engendered because the public was becoming aroused in opposition to malevolent corporate actions against the public interest.
Thus the existence of a cabal of economic elitists in the modern political arena can hardly be doubted when the primary impetus for that cabal was from malevolent corporations specifically threatened by "consumerism" and "environmentalism" that threatened the self-aggrandizement of these elitists at the expense of the public. It represents a worldview in which an elitist class of New Aryans consider their interests to supersede the interests of the public. And a worldview in which their interests must be protected by undermining the political process to suppress the interests of the public.
This worldview is known as Straussian, derivative of Leo Strauss, an American philosopher who argued that "Noble Lies" were necessary for an elite to govern. For example, the self-described ‘Cabal’ within the U.S. Defense Department that contrived the WMD and the fictional Iraqi-Al Qaeda connections to justify the overthrow of Saddam Hussein was led by "Abram Shulsky, a scholarly expert in the works of the political philosopher Leo Strauss" (Seymour Hersh, Selective Intelligence, New Yorker magazine, May 12, 2003).
The Straussian philosophy has been openly adopted by many industrialist political groups in the United States. Self-styled Straussian Irving Kristol, considered the "godfather of neoconservatism" by Reason Magazine, made it very clear "There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work."
This worldview uniquely fits an economic elite that subscribes to the Tobacco Institute model of fostering disinformation among the public to discredit public institutions. The Straussian view, as summarized by Stephen Holmes in The Anatomy of Antiliberalism (1993), is simple: "Strauss applies this criticism to law; law spells weakness; law is a trick of the weak to tie down the strong. Hence, Strauss applauds the decisive leader who acts outside of the law to achieve his goals." It represents the very antithesis of the proclamation in the Hammurabi Code that civilization was founded on the need to protect the weak from the strong. It is the intellectual foundation of the New Aryan view that democratic government is the problem to be drowned in a bathtub.
The result was a coalition of business interests to actively develop the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics that Teddy Roosevelt condemned and Dwight Eisenhower warned was a threat to democracy. It involved shrouding the racist Southern Strategy in code words for which the propaganda program of the Tobacco Institute could establish "think tanks" that espoused the Laissez faire royalist capitalism in terms of patriotism and freedom while disparaging the very concept of democratic government.
Instead of a capitalism that sought to empower the common populace, they espoused a "trickle down" theory that envisioned the empowerment of an elite that would leave bread crumbs for the people. They announced "Greed is Good!" and disparaged the concept of public welfare as creating dependency and weakness. It culminated in the election of Ronald Reagan as President with the cultish reverence of a messiah for Laissez faire royalism. Tax cuts for the rich, the elimination of regulations that protected the populace, and the widespread intentional discrediting of democratic government as an unnecessary interference in the Laissez faire economy.
The director of the movie "Casino Jack" interviewed by Salon magazine detailed the extent of the corrupt politics in recent years as part of an accepted political philosophy. A Laissez faire philosophy of empowering and enriching the wealthy at the expense of the common people.
Only the ultimate consequence of the marriage of the China Lobby techniques with the Laissez faire New Aryans was that the focus was no longer the governance of America, but rather the subjugation. The New Aryans never sought to really govern America, but rather to loot it as just another nation that they could manipulate and exploit like any third world nation. For third world nations perfectly exampled what the New Aryans sought for America.
They had only to overcome the political process of America where their Tobacco Institute model of propaganda created the circumstances of people voting against their own interests and faux news organizations such as Fox News could distort and disinform the public mindset. They were hampered only by campaign finance restrictions that required convoluted machinations to channel funds to various organizations and political groups.
But now that was gone, as Citizens United removed the restrictions and openly invited foreign money to corrupt the political process. For many who have not recognized the history of the New Aryans over the years, and particularly for those who discount the success of the Tobacco Institute model to misinform the public, the Citizens United decision is merely another political explosion in the war between the Democrats and Republicans.
But it is far more than that. It is like an atom bomb compared to dynamite. The objective of the New Aryans is not to govern the United States but to subjugate it. It is to turn the American populace into ignorant misinformed simpletons who can be easily manipulated by propaganda to control the political process to the point that the common people in any democracy, including the U.S., become little more than commodity labor inputs to be treated by the New Aryans as if they were little more than farm animals.
As such, how would these New Aryans go about creating a world of commodity labor inputs who could be politically manipulated? It seems to me the first step is to gain control of the public schools in order indoctrinate the populace in Laissez-faire ideals and to justify what Teddy Roosevelt called "the unholy alliance of corrupt business and corrupt politics" that is clearly operating today. It would be convenient to redefine education as the teaching of rote compliant "employability skills" rather than teaching civics and history and other tools of citizenship. To accomplish that would require a radical narrowing the curriculum, and undermining teaching, somewhat like NCLB is doing.
I will explore that further in part 3.