CORRUPTED GOVERNMENT
The social ethical purpose of government in a
substantive democracy is to facilitate the
quality-of-living of all persons in that society, that
critically pivots on providing vital public services.
Such a government would make sure, for example, that
every human being in the society has access to food,
clothing, shelter, social housing, healthcare, and a
protected environment toward a high quality of
survival. This kind of government would facilitate
such vital consideration before, for example, throwing
millions and billions on dollars into relatively
non-essential areas like subsidizing fancy
construction projects, or building more and more bombs
that could destroy the Earth many times over.
The elites who preside over the prevailing worship of
capitalism seek to transform society into a bleak
commercial milieu, where human rights, social justice,
and environmental protection imperatives are ignored.
In such a milieu, government is corrupted by pressures
from greed-driven interests who seek corporate and
other corresponding tax cuts, that ignore vital public
needs. Such corporate tax cuts are sought as a
"kick-back" reward for corporate interests having
cynically supported various political campaigns.
The United States where the fantastically commercially
rich often lives not far from communities of profound
poverty, alienation, and crime, have perfected this
kind of capitalistocractic system. This kind of
social Darwinistic context is now being exported by
America to the world, in the form of 'Corporate
Globalization'. Government in Canada, and
internationally, under the ethos of Corporate
Globalization, is being pressured by various interests
who have been corrupted by the worship of capitalism.
This context is further explored in the book
'Capitalism is Not Democracy', Parts I, II, and II.

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