Reply #105: Working in tandem is one thing

[MadHound]

The trouble is that we're not doing that. More and more our government, our society, our individual lives are being disproportionately dominated by Corporate America. Hell, one fine example is Peak Oil and global warming. If thirty years ago we had held to increasingly stringent CAFE standards, we would have 60mpg cars by now, with little or no emissions. If we hadn't caved in to corporate media, we would still have a diverse media landscape that would allow Democrats and liberals to get their message out to a wider audience. If we would have continued to emphasize clean renewable energy sources thirty years ago, we probably wouldn't have needed to fight this damn war for oil. But in each and every instance Corporate America exerted an inordinate influence on our government, killing these and so many other policies that have led to the decline of our society.

And frankly if you're not seeing where we the people are getting screwed, then you are willfully blind because it is happening on almost a daily basis and all you have to do is look around. We were a people kind of party, but sadly corporations and groups like the DLC have steered the party onto an increasingly corporate friendly path. You cite the jobs created, what about the jobs exported, hell, the entire manufacturing sector is virtually gone. Sure, jobs were created to replace them, but they are low paying, low benefit service sector jobs, and now even many of those are going overseas. But hey, those corporations are still making profits while they screw over the working stiff.