Has the dominance of corporations in our economic life for many years

[KlatooBNikto]

destroyed the American spirit of independence and produced a populace that is servile, knows how to bend its knees to power and is totally lost when their rights are violated by a fascist mob? Does this have anything to do with the unquestioning way the Press and the Media have swallowed the drivel pouring forth from the Bush spokespeople?

[bryant69]

1. I don't think that Spirit of Independence is destroyed

It's just mischanneled. The Republican party and conservative commentators have successfully hoodwinked people into thinking it is us, the liberal elite, the pointy headed intellectuals, who are oppressing them, so they feel like they are rebelling against us.

Which is why explaining that the corporate elite are really running this country.

Bryant
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[sweetheart]

2. Propaganda has it, that corporations have supplanted government

The neocon mantra is that corporations are better than government,
extending the absurd angle of being "capitalist" to the point of pure
fascism. Their elections are paid for by the corporate citizens that
the entire government no longer sees people as "citizens" but as
"employees".. and employees can be ordered around, or fired.

I agree that this soft takeover in the minds of americans, that
government is bad, and corporations good, all the while government is
massive and purely a foil for corporate interests in conquoring the
world to achieve economies of scale in economic thinking... that the
ultimate evolution is to have 6 billion people in 1 market... and the
economists are poorly educated and simply wrong, to push, as they have,
the whole economic model in to greater and greater scales, suggesting
mergers and consolidation that totally hollows out the original spirit
of the "employees" and reduces their power of choice.

In one way, bush is doing global liberalism a big favour... as he is
bankrupting the very sick model you mention, and if he is reselected,
american economic neoliberalism will die. The wall street nexus
will push the status quo of oil wars, and Bigger-is-better capitalism
until they go bankrupt and are forced out of the control-loop.

The neocon-repukes are a cancer, and they've been marked with
radioactive die, so we can see them on an X-ray for lifetimes to
come. They will all die penniless, and may the citizens of this
country heal from the chemotherapy it will take to heal this advanced
malignancy. Smash your TV, and put it out in the lawn with a
kerry sign hammered through the screen... and a "lies, all lies"
sticker on the broken screen. :-)