The Rising Tide of Populism in the Dem Party Spells Trouble for Hillary

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84. But that's not corporatism

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"Fuck government, it sucks" is libertarianism, anarchism, nihilism, or the heady combo of the three that is teahadism. Not corporatism.

Corporatism is the assumption that government is a good thing, as long as it governs first and foremost in the interests of corporations and the very wealthy.

Nearly everything in Hillary's record points toward her corporatism. Do you want somebody who'll fight for unions, for a new Glass-Steagall, for single-payer health care, for higher taxes on the wealthy, for capital gains taxation at the same rate as income, for closing corporate loopholes in the tax code, for keeping American jobs at home, and for reducing military spending and shifting the savings to social programs? Because there's is nothing -- and I mean nothing -- that indicates that Hillary stands for those things too.