That is, corporatist Republican and Democrat. Ownership of the media is corporatist, not Republican, in my opinion. Credit the Telecommunications Act passed during the Clinton administration for helping that along. We have all seen the coverage Hillary Clinton has gotten from the corporate media during this primary season relative to Bernie Sanders. Showing the Superdelegates in the totals from the beginning, the Bernie can't win, the barrage of questions about when will he get out and will he support Hillary when he does. And more recently, the Clinton campaign states on TV that they are going to go after Bernie, and within 48 hours the corporate media has turned it to "why is Bernie attacking Hillary by calling her unqualified?" There were the 16 negative stories in 16 hours on Bernie in the Washington Post.
Have you noticed the recent purchase of DIRECTV by ATT? Or the just approved purchase of Time Warner Cable by Charter Communications? At least Comcast's attempt to buy Time Warner Cable was blocked, but that is a rarity. There were 65 anti-trust investigations in the last year of Jimmy Carter's administration, when concentration in industry was nowhere close to what it is now. There were ZERO anti-trust investigations in 2015 under Obama.
As for militarized police departments, did Bill Clinton's Crime Bill that included funding for 100,000 police and increased mandatory minimum sentences (including the 100:1 sentencing disparity for crack cocaine versus power cocaine) have anything to do with that?
I do not see these distinctions between the mainstream of the Republican and Democratic Parties that you do.
Where do you think most of the money and votes of the top 0.1% will go in a Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump general election? My guess is 99% of the money (including all of the Clinton Foundation money, the Clinton "speech" money, etc.) and 90% of the 0.1% votes will go to Hillary.
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