American conservatism has opened the door and let the Texas crime syndicate take over the executive branch of government. American conservatism has also let the foxes of multi-national corporations run the hen house of regulatory agencies designed to protect American citizens. I recently remarked to a friend that we now have a form of American fascism.
Fascism: a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
But on further thought I decided we don’t have fascism in America yet, notwithstanding bush’s early dreams of being a dictator. In fascism, the dictator controls the corporations. But in America, the corporations control our government and so we have fascism’s cousin, oligarchy: government by the rich and for the rich. Quoting from Who Rules America, by sociologist G. William Domhoff:
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