The long awaited, anticipated Iowa Caucus took place yesterday and the winner was “Goldman Sachs” the bad boy investment bankers of Wall Street. Wall Street put their chips on Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton long before the official campaigns began. Hillary Clinton received a whopping $600,000.00 from speaking fees just from Goldman Sachs alone. Donald Trump and Bernie Sander were blunt about the shady relationship between Wall Street and the two winners from yesterdays Iowa Caucus. How can the people truly be represented in Capitalism while crooked investment banks like Goldman Sachs that had direct criminal involvement in the 2008 financial crisis are deciding the “Leader of the Free World”.
From yesterdays Iowa Caucus to the presidential election of 1896 where J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller bought the Presidency has shown how Wall Street and the elite Industrialist are the real representatives of Democracy. American Politicians are like NASCAR drivers: Corporate America sponsors them! The illusion of people being represented in Democracy is one of the greatest hoaxes of Capitalism. Since the inception of America the only people who were allowed to govern were the rich landowners. The owners of the largest capital in the colonies decided the rules and regulation that would govern them and in 2016 not much has changed (The median net worth of a member of Congress was $1.03 million in 2013, compared with $56,355 for the average American household).
No matter which party takes the Presidency for 2016 we can count on one thing that Wall Street will have a massive role in the governance and policy of America. Jamie Dimon (CEO of JPMorgan Chase), Lloyd Blankfein (CEO of Goldman Sachs), and Larry Fink (CEO of BlackRock) have more influence over the elected politicians than all the voters in America. You can use one of the most iconic hip-hop songs as the anthem for politicians in America “C.R.E.A.M.” (Cash Rules Everything Around Me).
