Corporates do have some power, to greater or lesser degrees, in most government systems. But very few have the level of control over writing laws and paying politicians that the USA has.
They helped building it, by constantly taking the “moral high ground” (succumbing to fascists, not calling them fascists because some people making racist jokes might weren’t actually fascists).
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The Democrats were less obvious but still bow down to corporations.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini.
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Merger is the key word.
Corporates do have some power, to greater or lesser degrees, in most government systems. But very few have the level of control over writing laws and paying politicians that the USA has.
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So watch out for more signs of fascism, particularly when corporate rights trump individuals.
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USA was founded by slavers who were the pre-cursors to fascism.
USA was fascist from inception even before fascism.
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lol. Gotta remember freedom means dollars and press means buying politicians.
Not to mention the many actual journalists murdered by empire. There have been hundreds in palestine alone… Plus prisoners like chelsea manning, etc.
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At a minimum, multiple states are/were all they way up to the Governor’s seat. Yes.
They helped building it, by constantly taking the “moral high ground” (succumbing to fascists, not calling them fascists because some people making racist jokes might weren’t actually fascists).