The phrase "Slow Motion Coup d'Etat" is often used to describe the thirty year long war on democracy by corporate power. I think the phrase the "persistence hunting of democracy" is more accurate and evocative. Its also harder to decry the accusation as CT when all you are doing is pointing out obvious, relentless thuggery.
I don't believe the corporate elite has a specific plan, that is deliberately being executed slowly. I think their plan is no more complicated than to wear democracy down by constantly hectoring it, tying it up in malevolent lawsuits, funding insurgencies that operate at the boundaries of the law or beyond it, stuffing the judiciary with ideologues and the bureacuracy with moles. They will cause one human/one vote democracy to collapse the same way human persistence hunters run an antelope into exhaustion.
The right is a pack of short-term opportunists. They have general desires, not concrete plans. And what they desire is "more". The problem is that now corporations, thanks to Citizens United, have "evolved" into an immortal, international beast, with unlimited financial resources that can run any single national democracy right into the ground.
If you think they will stop the hunt just because they lose this election, you are dreaming. This bunch of pirates is the very definition of persistence. These are the people who never stopped hating FDR, who continue the embargo on Cuba while trading with Communist China. These are obsessive greedheads like Pete Peterson, a billionaire whose major activity for the last thirty years has been working to destroy Social Security.
So, the sabotage, the sedition, the voter suppression, the racism/sexism/homophobia, the wrecking of the educational system - all will continue. I expect no slackening of political warfare after the election. I expect stolen ballots, legal fights, a shove over the fiscal cliff, stochastic terrorism, veiled sedition. That is, I expect the crazies to just dig in their heals and try to force the government into collapse even more openly than during the last two years.
Can the intended victims of this persistence hunt, namely you and me, "evolve" a counter-strategy before its too late? Come below the twisted orange DNA and see.
