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Every time reading the true history of Corporate America methodically and relentlessly consuming its host from the inside out is to be newly disgusted and outraged. Using the institutions of democracy to destroy democracy! And forcing helpless prey to pay for it all with their own blood and treasure! It's time to use the word evil.

Without meaningful regulations absolutely forcing a change in behavior, the wealth of a nation will always flow inexorably to the top, controlled by the greedy and the ruthless. Any form of government will eventually bend the knee with the right incentives and, more likely, disincentives directed at those making the laws. Fear as a tool always works.

The lure of pleasure; the fear of pain -- it's just easier under an authoritarian system where unapproachable rulers dictate the terms of our lives in both the public and private sectors, without the accountability expected under all those pesky, messy democracies.

People! Such a hassle! Quintessential fascism is coming to a town near you soon. Or, it has already been an intimate aspect of American life all along; but now, it's just too obvious to keep on ignoring, try as we might.

In these uncertain times, Americans' unconscious propensity for soft fascism has been radicalized and weaponized by crooks and cons and their gullible suckers, clinging to false gods and toy guns but mainly clinging to power.

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