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In reply to the discussion: Our phone just rang...hell froze over [View all]DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)The only thing he got wrong, was painting it purely as the GOVERNMENT that we needed to watch out for..........
It wasn't the government, it was the CORPORATIONS who put themselves in power by taking over the GOVERNMENT.......
And, he didn't do an adequate job of pointing out that the simplest definition of FASCISM is the merging of CORPORATIONS with GOVERNMENT, which is what we have allowed.........
The bottom line in what we are facing is, The Uber wealthy Republican Oligarchs and their UBER wealthy and powerful CORPORATIONS are what have enabled them to take over and run our Government........
Some Frenchman?, back when we were just founding our Democracy stated:
"Democracy will work, but only until some individuals, or group of individuals figure out that they can vote themselves power and money"..........