Policy Makers

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CA (Corporate America) has developed a well-honed expertise in motivating the population to behave in a desired manner. Citizens as consumers are ample manifestation of that expertise. CA has accomplished this ability by careful study and implementation of the knowledge of the ways of human behavior. I suspect this same structure applies to most Western democracies.

A democratic form of government is one wherein the citizens have some voice in some policy decisions. The greater the voice of the citizens the better the democracy.

In America we have PMs (policy-makers), DMs (decision-makers) and citizens. The DMs are our elected representatives and are, thus, under some control by the voting citizen. The PMs are the leaders of CA; less than ten thousand individuals, according to those who study such matters. PMs exercise significant control of DMs by controlling the financing of elections.

PMs customize and maintain the dominant ideology in order to control the political behavior of the citizens. This dominant ideology exercises the political control of the citizens in the same fashion as the consuming citizen is controlled by the same dominant ideology.

“Thomas R. Dye, Professor of Political Science at Florida State University, has published a series of books examining who and what institutions actually control and run America. to understand who is making the decisions that affect our lives, we also have to understand how societies structure themselves in general. Why the few always tend to share more power than the many and what this means in terms of both a society’s evolution and our daily lives. they examined the other 11 institutions that exert just as powerful a shaping influence, although somewhat more subtle: The Industrial, Corporations, Utilities and Communications, Banking, Insurance Investment, Mass Media, Law, Education Foundation, Civic and Cultural Organizations, Government, and the Military.”
21stcenturyradio.com/12-dye.html

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I thought I would reply to this because no one else has i think i have found out why.

What is your argument here all i see is u stating a fact that corporate America is run by the few and not the many.

Well this is simple is because the few are for more business minded and therefore earn more money. Now in this day and age if we like to admit it or not MONEY RULES!

However, all is not lost because everyone has the same opportunity as everyone else. They just need to want to make that change they have to stop thinking like poor people.

Being Broke is a condition BEING POOR is an attitude

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Back at the main page it listed Gamer as making the last post on the Philosophy Forum. So, when I switched over to this particular forum I saw that this thread was at the top and I naturally assumed that the last reply was Gamer’s. Then I began to read it… suffice it to say I now believe that the last reply does not belong to Gamer at all.

Thank You.

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Shadow

I am not making an argument. I have read a book by Dye about a matter that I have been thinking about for a long time. The book is not what I would call making an argument. It is making a claim and trying to fortify that claim with a great deal of information. This is a matter that cannot be argued so much as it has to be thought about and one must gather much information before a conclusion forms. Nothing here can be proven.

Wealth and organization is the source of power. Most of the wealth and organization rests in the corporations. Read the book or the Internet site referenced and see if it makes sense to you.

Chuck