Corporates do have some power, to greater or lesser degrees, in most government systems. But very few have the level of control over writing laws and paying politicians that the USA has.
They helped building it, by constantly taking the “moral high ground” (succumbing to fascists, not calling them fascists because some people making racist jokes might weren’t actually fascists).
Early warning signs of fascism:
1.) Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
2.) Disdain for the importance of human rights
3.) Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4.) The supremacy of the military/avid militarism
5.) Rampant sexism
6.) A controlled mass media
7.) Obsession with national security
8.) Religion and ruling elite tied together
9.) Power of corporations protected
10.) Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
11.) Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
12.) Obsession with crime and punishment
13.) Rampant cronyism and corruption
14.) Fraudulent elections
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It’s a sliding scale and it’s recently descended into unambiguously facist territory.
Its like diagnosing a disease: just one symptom isn’t conclusive, but when you have all the known symptoms you can be pretty sure what it is.
The Democrats were less obvious but still bow down to corporations.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini.
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Merger is the key word.
Corporates do have some power, to greater or lesser degrees, in most government systems. But very few have the level of control over writing laws and paying politicians that the USA has.
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So watch out for more signs of fascism, particularly when corporate rights trump individuals.
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They helped building it, by constantly taking the “moral high ground” (succumbing to fascists, not calling them fascists because some people making racist jokes might weren’t actually fascists).
At a minimum, multiple states are/were all they way up to the Governor’s seat. Yes.