You seem to be stuck in a loop of associating "
right wing" with "corporations", which then leads you to reason that when "
right wing" corrupt corporations and crony public officials get together to exploit "we the people", the resulting Fascist private/public partnership must reside on the "
right wing" side of the of the political spectrum.
That's not how it works.
The political spectrum doesn't care where government support comes from, but simply how much power does it have over the people. On the left is total government control and on the right, anarchy.
I repeat: Fascism can't survive if government is too small to impose itself upon the people, and thus is a
left wing ideology
The political spectrum DOES CARE where its support comes from.
Support comes in the form of
money, not some vacuous notion of 'people power'.
Power is influence over people, usually in the form of force or persuasion - manipulation. For instance, a church pastor has limited power over his congregation in the form of spiritual and intellectual influence, but he may not have any money.
Financial support provides the backbone of the power structure, but isn't power in and of itself. Money buys power.
I think you are focusing too much on the people's place in the political power structure. People have always been pawns in the hands of the influential and wealthy.
Poverty buys nothing. Wealth buys anything.
Corporations aren't necessarily corrupt. Like vultures that dine on roadkill it's just what they do. When corporations buy influence from politicians they do it for their own interests. Terms like "right or left wing", "partisan politics", or "usurpation" and etc. all describe a process or group of processes. Each nation has its own economic and political framework. Because SIN influences all decisions in American government the difference between left and right has become muddied.
For instance, in the years preceding WWII American politics could be neatly defined as liberal or conservative. Each party represented a different point of view. Conservatives, generally Republican, supported business and its management. Liberals, generally Democrats, supported the workers and labor unions.
Today those definitions are obsolete and completely inaccurate. Today labor unions are opposed by both parties. Gone are the days when a general strike crippled the entire nation. Gone are the days when labor unions, albeit corrupt as all hell, fought and won financial benefits and worker related safety policies. Today the Democratic party is more conservative, in terms of supporting big business, than the Republican party was in 1950. Some believe the Republican party is leaning heavily toward totalitarian fascist policies. BOTH act in ways defined as fascist in nature. Gone are the days when one party expressed a desire for a large military and the other wanted resources devoted to the people instead. Today BOTH parties pour money into the military like water through a fire hose. BOTH parties work vigorously for war JUST LIKE traditional definitions of fascism.
Money buys political favors especially in Washington, DC. State and local governments aren't immune either. I participated in a local election several years ago and discovered in the internal workings of things how really corrupt the whole system really is.
You seem to have more faith in the people than the people deserve. Americans are all stupidly gullible. Their opinion can be made to sway toward fascist militarism (as in post 911) or in excessive incomprehensible embrace of liberal policy (as in the Trump witch hunt).
Fascism IS financial corruption of government officials for the benefit of corporations . It doesn't matter how large or small the government may be.
There isn't any such thing as "we the people" in America today. There hasn't been any of that since 1860. You are basing your opinions on the vagaries of popular fantasy regarding government. People are stupid, especially American people.
Money buys power and in America that can be easily defined as fascism USA. Unfortunately the limited capacity of Americans to understand their own political system causes a massive blind spot in their understanding or willingness to actually effect policy. In America people vote for their favorite candidates (bought and paid for by corporate special interests). After the election Americans throw up their hands and pay no further attention to what their candidate actually DOES. They say it's in the hands of God when God has given us hands to do a proper job in the first place. Our hands are slack and we have no idea what's really going on because we choose not to know.
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Americans have no idea what's happening to them." - Pravda
I apologize for my lengthy post. I didn't have time to make it shorter.
that's me, hollering from the choir loft...
