Inverted Totalitarianism

How the Bush regime is effecting the transformation to a fascist-like state.

“Representative institutions no longer represent voters. Instead, they have been short-circuited, steadily corrupted by an institutionalized system of bribery that renders them responsive to powerful interest groups whose constituencies are the major corporations and wealthiest Americans. The courts, in turn, when they are not increasingly handmaidens of corporate power, are consistently deferential to the claims of national security. Elections have become heavily subsidized non-events that typically attract at best merely half of an electorate whose information about foreign and domestic politics is filtered through corporate-dominated media. Citizens are manipulated into a nervous state by the media’s reports of rampant crime and terrorist networks, by thinly veiled threats of the Attorney General and by their own fears about unemployment. What is crucially important here is not only the expansion of governmental power but the inevitable discrediting of constitutional limitations and institutional processes that discourages the citizenry and leaves them politically apathetic.”

     This paragraph is stating that  voters are dishonored by those wealthier American /big corporations so voters are no longer represent by political institution and how election is subjugated by media and when it has to be with domestic foreign politic and how people are manipulated by the media talking more about terrorism and Rampart. Crime and with the fears of unemployment and terror is more than government but constructional restrictions and institutional processes which disappoints these people and citizen lose the idea of political interest. 

      It’s obvious that behind everything there is something that manipulates the citizen the most vulnerable, for instance the poor, illegal, race and even religion (social services, welfare) and those manipulative groups treat those as poppet where they can do whatever they want and put them in the situation that they want to because they have the power to manipulate media and give a false perception about the reality. People believe what they want to believe, for instance the whole thing about immigration/reform that  President Obama obtain votes in his election announce about the reform given help to those working  class people, undocumented (Obama Immigration Reform 2014 speech, announcing executive action) but one thing to not forget is that there is a Congress. Whoever is the president doesn’t mean he can pass laws.  “Congress passes immigration law, but the administered bureaucracies write the rules (“regulation”) for how to implement the law” but bureaucratic regulation may create conditions for those illegal immigrants that go against the belief of congressional representative (Rodrigues).