Has the faceless corporation taken over America without a single vote or firing a shot?

Question

The landscape of America has changed since WWII, and, is attributable, good, bad, or indifferent, by the major corporations. Now, some of you people will see this as a socialist question, which it isn't. Is this the "new world", a sort of faceless appeasing giant of a corporation that has its power and span of control throughout the world with allegiance to no government, or, its people?

Answer 1

I agree with you. Corporations seem to have a back hand in running our government and even our wars. The middle class is disappearing, yet it is being presented to us as Communism if people want to take steps to regain ground for the middle class.

Leisure time is something that allows people the creativity to come up with new ideas and work better and yet it is disappearing as we struggle to make ends meet so that we can fill up the tank and feed our families.

Answer 2

Don't know. But at least corporations can be held accountable. If their product is harmful, we sue. Even if we are told the product is harmful by them and use it anyway, we sue. If the corporation is badly managed, they either fire those in charge or they go out of business. If we don't like their product, we shop elsewhere. If the stockholders don't like the returns, the big boys get fired. Everyone believes big CEO's have it made. When they run a good operation, they get rich, when they run a bad operation, they get fired but come away rich. But they do get fired. Then a new guy is put in that will hopefully meet both the consumers' and stockholders' expectations.

Politicians, by the very nature of the system, are virtually impossible to fire. Congressmen/women and especially Senators, are almost a collective. When things are bad, they can spread the blame enough to insulate themselves from the voters. Yet when it is time to play the party politic, these same politicians stand up in front of their own little group of supporters, stick their thumb into the pie, pull out a couple of fat plums and exclaim, "My! What a good boy I've been!". Ted Kennedy is re-elected time and time again. His people love him. Yet he has a great deal of power and influence on decisions that affect all our lives. If he were to run for Senator based on a national vote, he would have been gone long ago.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The corporation is created by government, so in a way it is like socialism, especially when the people who run corporations also run government, giving themselves subsidies, tax breaks, regulatory benefits that restrict competition, foreign policies that favor them over our national self interest.
This is where the Democrat party has failed miserably. They say they support the "little guy", the people who work for corporations, yet the Democrat politicians are all in the pocket of big business.
I say the best way to reduce the power of the corporations is to reduce the power of government and let the free market operate like it should, with many businesses competing. End the income tax (except maybe the corporate tax, since corporations wouldn't exist without government) so that workers can keep the money they earn.
Our whole health care crisis was created by the income tax, health insurance is deductable for corporations.

Answer 5

It has allegiance to the people.

They're called customers and investors.

I keep hearing about how much worse off we all are because all the mom and pop stores died with Norman Rockwell.

They were all a bunch of crooks with little local monopolies just as apt to sell us junk as any big company we see today.

I don't miss them.

I'll take Home Depot over that fat slob in the hardware store who wouldn't even get out of his chair if I didn't know exactly what I wanted.

I knew there was a Home Depot coming as soon as he hired two more people who roamed the aisles asking if I needed help.

Competition makes everyone better, large or small.

Answer 6

Yes, globalization is what most of world calls neo-liberalism.

Neoliberalism's prerequisites for nations to garner acceptance and receive assistance are a form of international blackmail. Severe penalties exist for non-compliance. A nation may be branded a pariah for choosing something other than the neo-liberal model. Not being on the Unites States' “most favored nation status” is one form of retribution. Being under the imposition of a devastating worldwide economic embargo is another. And, human rights do not matter much. China, a communist nation with its many violations, has been granted most favored nation status. Cuba, also a communist country, with its internationally acknowledged gains in social, medical, and educational services for the people, has not. Cuba's refusal to acquiesce to the dictatorship of free market capital circulation is to – neoliberalism – a much bigger crime, than China's violation of people's human rights. China exports cheap consumer goods to the United States and the world. Cuba exports human capital, its doctors and teachers, and imports tourists. One contributes to the dictatorship of the free market. The other resists. The political system matters little when a nation embraces the neoliberal model. Neither do the conditions under which people live. Globalization, for example, has brought the world both colonialism and contributed heavily to slavery. Profit came at the expense of the indigenous and the slaves.

Answer 7

You act as if corporations are some irresistible armed force that bends people to their will. Corporations are PUBLICLY OWNED businesses. That means YOU control them. If you don't like what a corporation is doing, don't buy their product. Or buy their stock and vote for change.
Quit your bitching and do something constructive. YOU have the power.
When did we become a nation of whining victims?

Answer 8

The thing about a corporation is that it has a structure.

Although I agree that many corporations have far far too much influence in US life, I'm not going to call it one nameless single entity. That is, there are some CEOs and heads of shareholders that have way too much power ...

But they are individuals, with faces, that can be named.

Answer 9

Yes, and I'm a Independent Conservative. Yet, in a world economy it is sometimes needed yet eventually it must be slowly dismantled.

Answer 10

Blaming a corporation is a scapegoat... blaming the American people themselves is accurate.