It’s conventional wisdom that Wall Street loves gridlock in Washington. To them, Washington means oversight.
Wall Street hates when Big Brother is watching, delving into all the nefarious ways they conjure to obfuscate regulators to maximize their profits.
Given the extreme influence the Fortune 500 companies have in U.S. politics, it’s not a stretch to think that they might actually be causing this gridlock, pulling gossamer thin, invisible strings; controlling both the Democrats and Republicans, keeping them at perpetual odds with each other.
Major corporations have always invested heavily in both parties, hedging their bets no matter who gets the upper hand in Washington. What better way to maximize profits than to wager your bets so the Democrats and Republicans are in a perennial logjam? Easy money.
The media loves gridlock, too. The more tension and drama, the more viewers they have – zoom, zoom; up go the advertising revenues.
Clearly the three 24/7 business cable TV news stations favor gridlock. They’re nothing but bodily extensions of Wall Street anyway.
The other media outlets grovel in gridlock, too. When no one is in control of Washington, that puts them in the driver’s seat. When the balance of power in politics is locked at equilibrium they’re in control.
Political correctness gone amok.
Our constitution was written on the assumption that no incarnation of the media would ever be as uniformly ubiquitous as the mainstream media are now. They resolved to balance the political parties, assuming all else would be overall neutral.
A tripod is a three-legged stool. It can form a stable platform on the most uneven ground. The two parties versus the media have maintained a decent balance for 200 years. Not anymore; not with two of the legs, the political parties, firmly locked in place.
The result is a situation in which the media has total control.
The media can rock the boat at will, destabilize it at will – create as much high drama as they want – and literally force their will upon Washington. If the media were balanced between right and left, this would not be a bad thing.
The problem is that the media is overwhelmingly liberal, and they’re using their influence to not only perpetuate government gridlock, but to use the current political morass to promote their own agenda: Obama’s radical socialist agenda.
Marxism.
