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Old April 1st 18, 04:20 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Tim McNamara
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 09:55:15 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:
On 4/1/2018 12:34 AM, Tim McNamara wrote:
BTW, if you want to know where the "deep state" really is, look no
further than entrenched industries with money to spend on buying
influence.


I've been wondering if corporations are replacing national governments
as the prime agents of power, just as democracies replaced monarchies.


By and large that has been happening for at least a thousand years in
one form or another. Deciding that corporations are effectively
individuals with the same rights as real people escalated it. Citizens
United enrenched it into case law in keeping with the goal of modern
conservatism to ensure that government serves the needs of the rich
first and foremost. That paved the way to the rising fascist American
state (which is what "Trumpism" really is).
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