The Dictatorship of Capital

The Dictatorship of Capital

“Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.”

Adam Smith

By: Erreh Svaia

It’s really fun to hear U.S. senator Marco Rubio describing Obama's government as "left wing", Really? Can you really tell that Obama's government in the U.S. is a left wing government? Do you really believe that the U.S. is a socialist utopic dream? I don't really think so, as we know the U.S. is the official realm of capitalism, a dictatorship of the capital, and that's precisely what gives them the edge, either if you vote for the Democratic Party or for the Republican Party, corporations (oil and pharmaceutical mainly) the real power behind both political parties and the ones really taking the decisions that matter.

The truth is that both North American political parties are pretty much the same, a cover for a big corporate machine leading the country, democracies move slow, and that the reason the U.S. moves fast, because it's a stable place, either if you vote for Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, Bernie Sanders or even Donald Trump, in the end, the results in the U.S. will pretty much be the same, corporations rule, and that's why investors are so happy with their money there.

In Mexico, unfortunately we are learning a lot from the U.S., as the political figure known as "independent candidates" are starting to become the way for corporations to begin taking the power away from political parties and placing it in the hands of the big capitals.

Can you tell if Jaime Rodriguez, independent candidate and now Nuevo Leon, Mexico, recently elected governor is left, center or right wing? The truth is that it is too hard to tell, as Jaime appealed to the low and middle class, denouncing power elites and vowing to end poverty, which sounds very left wing to me, although in reality he is merely a populist, the truth is that corporate power is behind Rodriguez and it will become a common strategy for corporations to back its candidates in the future.

In the U.S. there is some social pressure from once minorities now gaining more power and presence such as the Latin population, for years now Latinos have been more inclined toward the democratic party in the U.S., Trump was nothing more than a wild experiment, something that should not be, and that his appearance in SNL might end up defining his true nature as a sick joke, but is Rubio the definite big bet from the GOP, as Rubio represents a marketing gimmick in order to reach that Latino vote.

Hillary or Rubio could be the next president in the U.S., the truth us that powerful monsters like the oil and pharmaceutical industries are behind them in one way or another, with the military industry as another power that be, so forget about seeing the end of violent incursions in the Middle East, hyper expensive medical costs or shootings in schools, either democrats or Republicans, you know who really wins.