Reply #39: yes, but it is even worse than that

[William Z. Foster]

The non-profit sector is dependent on corporate money and has bought into and promotes the privatization and "free market" program. They all "partner" with private industry, and in all ways operate exactly the same as corporations and promote the same ideas about government and social conventions and arrangements.

The entire point of having any government at all, the only basis for any legitimacy for government, is to protect and promote the public welfare. We have many people right here denying that, or outright opposing the idea.

What we have now is a government that is mainly a police force, both here and internationally. There is always an unlimited amount of money available for policing and military operations, and the government seizes unlimited power and authority for those activities.

This program - hands off when it comes to interfering with corporations, with the wealthy few, and draconian police state power when it comes to going after the everyday people - is being promoted and defended by far too many Democrats, liberals and progressives.