Quote:What have I said that is delusional? Are you forced to purchase products or services in the free market? Are you force to financial contribute to someone in the free market? Are you free to withhold your financial support from the government when they've been exposed misleading the public?

 

You have no more significant amount of power over any large corporation than an ant has over you.

 

If you participate in society you're stuck supporting big business, and since you're here on the Jaguars message board it's already clear that you do.

 

You drive? Big oil and big automotive and all the BS that come with those.

 

You eat? Big agribusiness at the least and probably super huge corporations like Pepsi or Frito Lay if you ever eat at any kind of corporate food place.

 

You're using the internet, so you're in the pocket of one of the big telecom businesses and even if you swap to another one you're still dealing with one of four or five megacorps that are colluding with right-wing government to screw you over.

 

I could go on and on, but there isn't any point. If you don't already understand that you're completely entangled in a society that has relinquished too much power from government to big corporations already then you'll never understand it.

 

In government you actually get a vote if you can manage some understanding of what government really is and why it's actually important instead of thinking it's something to rail against.

 

When you vote to shrink government, all you're really doing is voting to shrink the parts of government that could serve your interests, even if you don't actually understand what your interests are. The parts that are serving big corporate interests don't get touched because big corporate interests are the other side of the right-wing governance coin.

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