(01-16-2019, 10:39 AM)David Horn Wrote:(01-14-2019, 07:49 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: Do any of you think we will yet be successful in reducing excessive corporate power before this 4T has completely played out?
If not, then the 4T will be a failure. It is the core test of our political life, because all the other problems are directly related.
Monopoly and trusts are the norm in contemporary America. Economic power now dominates politics until someone like Trump gets erratic enough to scare the rich-and-powerful.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.