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Charles Koch Won; We the People Lost
‘Government is the problem’ ideology has permeated America, and most have no idea how to affect change
There is a litany of reasons there’s been a slow degradation of life for ordinary people in the US. The emphasis on the Wild West individualism and competition, the nature of corporations and capitalism to grow and eat everything in their path — even the foundation they’re sitting on, the flippant disregard European colonizers had and still have for other cultures, pure always classic corruption, the effectiveness of the American media apparatus, that same media and politicians wielding never healed race relations, the myth of the American dream, and ahistorical anti-communist rhetoric, as well as the cycles of economies and empire, could all be said to have played a role — and a million other things.
America is a corporate-welfare hellscape of egregious inequality masquerading as a meritocratic ‘free market’ utopia. The government is bought and purchased. Corporate America is hollowing out the country from the inside.
The citizens are afterthoughts and a Princeton study showed public opinion has almost zero effect on policy, which means the nation is very much not a democracy.
