@suzianne said
So blaming corporations is scapegoating when you vote for a party who gets kickbacks for corporate tax cuts. And so you scapegoat the government because you vote for the out-of-power party.
Do I have that about right?
You speak of corporations as if they were a ubiquitous mass. There are more than 10 million corporations in the US, depending on what you count as a corporation. I, myself, am a partial owner of one (quite small). Trust me, my corporation is not getting kick backs in any way from the government and is not donating even a cent to a politician.
So if your analysis can get no more astute than to treat "corporations" as a single, ubiquitous entity, then I'm probably going to have to stop short of giving your assessment a full throated endorsement.
Still, to whatever corporation is giving kick backs to politicians, I agree. To the extent that is happening, the politician involved is
always culpable. If a politician is abusing his power to assist a corporation or a set of corporations, that in no way can be used to support premise that "corporations" as a group are bad.
I am not a well connected person so I am not in the know for any back room deals, but it is my opinion that democrats are making secret deals with corporations at least as much as republicans.
Nevertheless, my original point stands unchallenged by your side comment. The politicians bringing on inflation never see themselves to blame and always blame industry (and recall that whether they're corrupt with corporations or just on their own, a corrupt politician, if he is corrupt, is
always culpable).
Corporations may be greedy, but somehow McDonalds still has a dollar menu. They'd charge $10 for the same items if they could make more money that way.