We, and particularly Repubs, suffer stockholm syndrome.

[WingDinger]

When the subject of taxing or otherwise regulating corporations is discussed, inevitably a Repub brings up how they will just punish us with higher prices. Barring that, they will pack up and leave the country. Same with the rich. Repubs beg corporate forgiveness. They pledge to keep THEIR welfare as the only welfare worth keeping. Corps, are the only ones able to gain the ear of pols.

Squads of excusemakers populate right media. Even when corps do wrong, they were forced by stupid Dems. Our lives, activities and our very personalities, are dictated, should we CHOOSE to continue eating. We are expected to succumb to their dictates more and more as we age. Likely a product of hoping to escape poverty and deprivation in our golden years.

Indeed, our very lives depend on corps. We beg them for our needed health interventions. No other path is known. In fact, we endeavor to eliminate any other path. Witness our zeal to wring profit out of the space shuttle. The olympics, and every other humanitarian task. We even attach EVIL to any attempt to rein in corporate influence. Calling it communist, socialist, and referring to any that might try, as moonbats, on a good day.

Idiots, intent on heading off a new world order, were entirely blind to the real pall on human freedom. The Corp. Soon, our water and foodstuffs will require the same begging as health intervention. All the while, the Repubs bray about liberty and freedom. This has to be a deficiency in human nature, and its ability to scale up to our current world population density.

Should we choose to continue our worship of the corp, to the exclusion of all other possibilities, particularly our method of capitalizing industrial intention, we will fall behind those countries that invest directly in their productive welfare. Labeling all but our level of capitalism, and form, as socialism, or communism, will be the end of us, as a first world nation.

We stand at the precipice of fundamental change of the human conception of work and worth. I hope we are not fighting stodgy human nature, or we are all doomed. Where are the philosophers that will expand our options and ideas? Have we hit the wall? I hope they are presently cowering in fear of Luddite tar and feathering, that will end soon. Otherwise, it is up to aliens or gods.

[Poboy]

1. Good post, but it seems clear to me that the 'opposition' (our sides' leaders) is purposefully

taking a dive. Whatever the reason they are complete and total FAILURES.

[WingDinger]

2. Thus my reference to ill suited human nature.

[RKP5637]

3. Yep, I think we're in free fall now. Often one and the same ...

[Newest Reality]

4. Good post ...

Yet, consider the idea that big corporations are a convincing veil.

When you consider that they are owned and that the largest shareholder(s) actually have controlling interest and can reap the most profit from them, then facade reveals a class issue. The Walton family and many others are an example.

We are not so much beholden to those fictitious entities, (that continue to evoke a person-like status and rights) as we are to the Nation's owners who hide behind the superficial spectrum of media, companies and institutions. They buy and sell our reality and lives stealthily while we are induced to imagine otherwise.

It is the best time ever to be a member of the deadbeat rich families who enjoy more power and wealth than royalty ever did.