The Real Complex in Politics

Candidates for US president more need the endorsement of one power: “The Opinion Complex.” More than just the mass media, but far from a dark shadow of paranoid conspiracy, the Opinion Complex is quite visible and public. It has its public institutions and its own freely available publications. What is it? Nothing else than the rich and powerful in the nation who inform themselves of where their private interests and the political-economic realities meet. In turn, it manipulates the culture to preserve an uncaring and powerless society.
At one time known as the Eastern “Liberal” Establishment, the Complex has in history done good things for the nation; for example the Civil, and Voting Rights Acts, and victory in two world wars and the Cold War. They also gave us Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, “free” and unfair trade, and the $9 trillion national debt.
The Complex gives considerable weight, a political gravity, to favorable potential candidates, but more importantly it contributes the main ideas and the key people which generates action and manages the status quo. Forming a vital center of moderate unity among their own factions, the Complex serves their common interests. Think of the beginning of it, of all the white, male merchants and landowners in the Continental Congress or writing the Constitution. The few Southern slave owners and New England merchants opposed to them, still formed a union, a republic, and then a nation.
After their enemy Nixon upset party labels in the 1972 Southern Strategy, and Carter’s failures to serve them, we might now call that old Establishment the “Neoconservative Movement.” It has a common theme in both parties. Bill and Hilary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore, Joseph Liebermann, etc. in reality neo-conservatives, but know them as the Democratic Leadership Council.
The Complex empowers itself; the benefit of elite education, open even to the poor, guaranteeing success in exchange for service. Then, the Complex takes decisive action.
Do small communities and the urban poor suffer? Certainly. The poor and working class die first in war. The system denies the masses power. Without desire for to access to information, and lacking motivation to vote for a “hopeless” Democrat or Republican or third party candidate, those who tell truth that those “weird” ideas of liberty, freedom, peace, and community, the ones that serve the people’s long-term interest first, the rich and wealthy Opinion Complex will rule.
If individuals risk seeing the reality, and motivate themselves for individual, positive, peaceful action, at whatever cost to work or leisure, we can take back our power as families and united communities. Then WE THE PEOPLE would not suffer the national theft of the liberty and property, nor suffer loss in the wars of empire for the masters.

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