T H I S -

[ancianita]

11. It wasn't meant to be a country. The people who inhabited it meant it to be, but the owners never

told them that it was meant to be their corporate project all along. It's been one battle after another, with proxies serving to obscure who is behind the nation's land and resource control. Every initial settlement and land development was a corporate project. Find out who sold the land to settlers, initially, and you know who owns the land. Even if treaties settled foreign governments' control, corporations in those countries were meant to outlive and out-remember humans in this one, who have been led to believe they were free. The country and its constitution was a lease for the land inhabitants, properties categorized as "joint tenancy" or "tenants in common" or "tenants of the entirety," mineral rights never guaranteed, subject to "eminent domain," and transferred through title companies.

When corporatists have shown themselves to "set things straight," they tell humans that corporations are people, with all the same rights and protections, and that the US should be run like a business.