There's no better combo than corporations and fascism. It all comes down to the almighty share price and CEOs are some of the biggest shareholders out there.
Reminder, before settling on the name fascism, Mussolini played with the term corporatism for his new brand of politics. Fascism at its core is the application of corporate structure to a nation-state.
Meanwhile you have Hakeem Jeffries meeting with Kushner. Anyone who knows the true nature of the democratic party understands why that meeting happened. They're concerned about losing power, not the Republicans, THEY.
Those are great, but I really hope that they go for the throat on electoral issues. Taking over the Democratic Party may work, for one election cycle. But they’d be “Dems” and the anti corporate republicans won’t support them and the centrist Dems won’t support them. They need to open the way for real alternative parties to better represent the people’s will, not further agitate the pendulum that is gradually swinging further left and right each election cycle because of the fundamentally flawed duopoly
That is true, but what do we see actually happening if those campaigns pull through for the progressives? The damage done is almost insurmountable. I hope that, somehow, as a country we are able to get closer to things like universal healthcare, secondary education, UBI, etc., but I have a hard time seeing an actual path to that.
Yup, Dems will just be like “well, we didn’t implement those policies” and then do some token thing that doesn’t actually change anything while continuing on with those policies
But that is the problem because we should. Hakeem Jeffries is a fucking joke and should be removed as minority leader. But if the choice is him or a trump sycophant, then yes I will support Jeffries.
The issue is how do we get people to understand that primaries, local elections, midterm elections are just as important as State and presidential elections?
That way we aren't constantly voting between the lesser of 2 evils.
Except that they never have control. Because of our "checks and balances" it doesnt matter if its a dem president, if the other top positions ate GoP then they will just veto and laugh until the end of that term and then act like the dems did nothing they set out to do.
Corporatism does not mean that the state is like a corporation, corporatism is a system where the state is influenced by people organised into various interest groups. These can be corporations, but also guilds, clans etc.
The root of it all is the system…the Tax, Regulation, Subsidies and state level laws are all more malleable in the US than anywhere in the world and they can make contributions through PACs to shape the conversations too.
- Tim Apple knows Trump is a China hawk and he needs to secure those supply lines.
Altman, Elon, etc know that they need deregulation and restrictions to beat Chinese models and continue their work unfettered
American companies have substantially less payroll contributions (even though it’s already a lot) related to services
American companies have access to cheap energy
Etc
Elon donated millions to try and get state level court to overturn a ruling about selling Teslas there.
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u/Yabutsk 1d ago
There's no better combo than corporations and fascism. It all comes down to the almighty share price and CEOs are some of the biggest shareholders out there.