Yes, two sides of the same coin. Especially when businesses go woke and try to enforce wokeness on their customers.
In another day and time this would be called Corporatism, also known as Fascism.
JMO, YMMV
When I was in school, I had many teachers who wanted to teach about Marxism. Some of them liked it, some of them didn’t. But it seemed to be a standard view in liberal arts that everyone ought to at least understand what Marxism was all about.
But they never teach anyone about fascism.
In my view, we absolutely have a fascist system in the US and in most of the West. Sure, the Germans lost WWII — but the fascists won.
Big businesses crush little businesses. Big businesses become rich — just so long as they run their business the way the government wants them to. And government becomes rich and powerful — just so long as they serve the interests of the business class. It’s symbiotic. But ordinary people get screwed at both ends.
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Now the job is complete. The Ivy League and many, many other colleges and universities that fashion themselves after the Ivy League are pure Marxist indoctrination centers.
And, BTW, when the communists developed their program for infecting America with their putrid ideology, colleges and universities weren't their only targets.
Black communities received equal attention.
Just take a look at Obama and his mentor Frank Marshall Davis (Communist Party ID #47544).
FDA Chairmen? From and straight back to Big Pharma
Intel Agencies? From and to Big Tech. Big Tech is absolutely littered with (supposedly) ex Feds.
The Pentagon? They retire and go straight to senior positions for the Defense Contractors.
The list goes on. What does anybody think they do when they are in office? OF COURSE they do whatever the big corporations want knowing that if they play ball, there's a big fat payday waiting for them from those same corporations. If that means enacting regulation that benefits the large corporations by crushing smaller competitors, they're only too happy to do it. "Take the vax!"....."buy this super expensive white elephant weapons system"...etc
It works the other way too. Those in government such as people who work for intel agencies can lobby Big Tech and get them to censor and ban their political opponents. They can lean on the Big Banks to de-bank political opponents, etc
Government and Big Business in bed together and doing each other's bidding has a name. Its called "Corporatism". That is, literal fascism. That's what we have.
PS. I think the FIB and other intel agencies are going to come to regret making their traditional supporters - Conservatives - their enemies as well. Many of us on the Right will neither forgive nor forget their treachery.
This nation (and others) has been successfully infiltrated.
Over time, our universities, primary education, entertainment, news organizations, tech sector, banking, healthcare, etc have all been co-opted by the left, throwing their support behind every socialist/fascist cause.
It is amazing that conservatives even have a chance in elections at this point….but that probably will end soon.
The same has happened in Europe and other Western nations. You see a conservative push-back by voters, only to be quickly squashed by the entrenched leftists in gov’t and industry who continue on their march to implement their agenda.
Excellent description of the current state of our world. Recommended read.
All the talk of them "running scared" is manure.
Finance, education, media, governance...THEY control the strings to them all.
Parasites live for 1 purpose...an insatiable appetite to devour everything.
They've had 70+ years to perfect the recipe.
They view everyone else as willful and/or ignorant...ingredients.
It’s a big help that 60+% of the population doesn’t have the intelligence, understanding,or cares to know what is going on.
“Traditionally, fighting corporate power was the purview of the political left. Conservatives have generally backed “free markets” because they despise socialism’s predilection for choosing economic winners and losers. ”
That was when corporations were American. Now they despise and trash everything about America. They care more about foreign workers and trade. And they insult Americans as they do so. They lament the greed of labor as executive pay has soared orders of magnitude in the last few decades. They push homosexuality, hate for whites and men. They push the global warming crap and endless wars.
And we are supposed to rush to their defense?
“In its place, extremely wealthy people use the Federal Reserve as their personal piggy bank, the Intelligence Community as their personal spies, the DOJ and FBI as their personal police force, the corporate press as their personal public relations team, and the U.S. military as their personal resource acquisition division.“
Go ahead, you know the word. The blending of state and corporate power.