[SarahSchilling]

Hi Sarah,

The difference between the political parties (at least in the UK) is purely cosmetic, and I suspect the same can be said for all Western democracies.

Your suspicion is absolutely correct. Corporate lobbyists write the laws, and politicians of either major party serve as the pitchmen, then later the scapegoats. The policies don't change whether democrats or republicans are in power, they are just marketed to different portions of the polarized populace.They don't even debate most proposed laws in congress anymore, most are just rubber stamped now. It's a sad state of affairs.

When you label big business as "too big to fail", this is bound to happen. Whatever happened to antitrust laws? It's amazing that the connotation of monopoly has been twisted from something that was illegal into the driving force behind the world economy. Too big to fail? More like to big to be legal in a supposedly free market economic system.



But yeah, I knew you'd agree with my post lol. I could rant for a few more paragraphs, but this thread probably isn't the place.

Allow me one small afterthought though. When government owns business, its called fascism, a word that send chills up everyone's spines. When business owns government, its called World Trade. Despite being even worse for the citizens, it sounds so nice most people don't give it a second thought.

Euphemistic bullshit shouldn't work this well.