THE CORPORATION [20/23] Hostile Takeover

20. Despotism was often a useful tool for the corporation to secure foreign markets. Corporations once even attempted to overthrow New Deal President Roosevelt and impose a fascist dictatorship in the US. The story of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler.

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[ducttapeandzipties]

Hey there, this is ducttapeandzipties. I was going to donate you a dollar. Till you annoyed the hell out of me by putting an ad at the end of every clip.

[machbar]

@ducttapeandzipties Sorry. You never know who's going to watch what. What would your fund-raising strategy be?

[Valdris1987]

Old fascism failed because there were too many signs, it was too visible. Now, even if there are no visible flags or signs, it doesn`t mean that fascism/dictatorship is over.

[betsingerb]

Bluth corporation built houses in Iraq for profit.

[giftbasketer2]

Odd feedback for this video yet again.

[owingawat]

@Valdris1987 They suppressed opposition with force, now the boundaries aren't physical but psychological. It's all propaganda, sensationalism and consumerism instead of the KGB or SS.

[qwertypluss]

lol all conspiracy theorist

[EternalSage07]

@Bodhidharma1986 Couldn't have worded it better myself. They only allow so many characters into one post though so it's difficult to construct what I really have to say into one coherent thought. Oh well, it's all here in this documentary. Plenty of instances of the general populace's very well-being being taken away by corporations and their enablers within the U.S. government. Wish people would open their hearts and minds to thought that nobody is going to save us, we must do it ourselves.

[Bodhidharma1986]

@EternalSage07 Sure. Part of the "Containment Policy" instilled by Wilson during the first Red Scare here, after the fall of the Czar, in 1918. Then, that followed throughout the 50s and into the Cold war to the 90s. The constant threat of "Communism" in US planning documents. No matter what movement you're a part of (anarchist, socialist, communist, utopianist, whatever), the State planners and corporate structures always referred to free-thought and general concern for others as "Communism".

[CarmineFragione]

@EternalSage07 Tacitus wrote " the more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state" If you have no talent, the government cannot supply you with a life. A good government is when the people are superior and could exist without a government. The government that governs the least , governs the best. In the free market,  you vote with your pocketbook. If you want an example, the government put out billions for green jobs and all the money went from your pocket to others

[EternalSage07]

Oh yes, there's a new bigotry being enforced in this country and it isn't the masses picking on poor minority corporations, or those of racial segregation in the South. It's our rich slave drivers whipping the backs of the middle class into submission and having government impose unfair advantage to greedy CEOs so much that the employees (ya know, the people who are doing the actual work) can barely afford to feed our families and pay for utilities in the same month.

[EternalSage07]

@CarmineFragione That argument is such a false analogy. You can't compare a government job to a private business job because they have different purposes. Government exists to provide infrastructure and to create, pass and enforce laws wherever appropriate.

The problem is mainly the fact that we've got corrupt government allowing the large corporations, which exists solely to turn a profit, to do whatever they want via the 14th amendment, deny people of our rights and now $ trumps justice.