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Edited on Sun Aug-09-09 11:02 AM by RandomThoughts
They do not think of things like companies, or private sector entities as existing as a way to set policy.
When they think of social control they only think of government. To them corporations are all independent things with no agenda other then just selling some product.
The idea that many types of governments exist in parralel in society needs to be put in their brain, so they can think on how, when they think of how things happen, they have more areas to see as the cause.
Right now, anything that happens must be from the group that 'runs things' for them they only think of government. Even when lobbyist paid by corporate business stops laws that would help them, they don't think of it as a lobbying issue, only a government issue.
So since they are missing that part of the equation, anyone in government that says less government they agree with. Since they have not heard of the corporate thing that is there.
If you can imagine it this way, think of corporations as only being competitive mom and pop grocery stores, each working on their own. And government being everything else. Some of them think like that, so if there is a problem, they think it must be government. They do not realize the interconnectivity and monopoly pressure of many of the groups in the private sector.
But best guess is they are very few, the Repub support is down to 25%, 75% want a public option, want to reign in the banks, want justice for criminals at the top, want government to clean things up. It is a false thought presented by loud megaphones on the right that the 'less government' group has very much support at all. If the question is asked by programs needed most people want reforms on many issues.
They know things are messed up, but the only thing they blame is the only thing they know sets policy, the government.
That is why if government can not fix things, with things like prosecutions not just reports of wrong doing, and with real reform in many sectors, then that would indicate the corporate system and the government system is the same thing, and both would have to come down.
The system needs to be fixed, and government is the logical place to do that, but if they are in sync with the problem, then there is not an established system to fix things, just like until prosecutions happen no laws are in effect. So the 'change' that is needed is not just fixing the problem, it is defining what side of the problem government is on.
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