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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:01 PM Original message |
I'm thinking we need a better term for the corporatocracy... Perhaps "Corporaproxy"? |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. I don't use that term, I refer to them as Robber Barons. |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:10 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Yes, I think that's a good direction. At least with the older generations... |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:29 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. They may not know the history, but the two words together is very |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Excellent framing. I tell those folks I'm not against business... |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:23 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Robber Barons is a very American term. It carries an emotional charge. |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Maybe calling Washington DC "Robber Baronton DC" to make the connection... |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:33 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Keep it simple by using words and terms in common use. |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:39 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Funny, I was just mentioning the term "authoritarian" to my Mom this morning... |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 03:52 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. The thing is, if you have read Dean's "Conservatives Without Conscience" |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 06:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. That's why I would submit that we should soundly reject us being labeled as "communists"! |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 07:23 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. The authoritarian right should be enough because it is |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 06:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
21. Maybe the "Robber Baron Lobbyists" or "Robert Baron Lobbyist Rulers" |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. How is it that so many enter Congress as people of average means |
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Katherine Brengle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
5. But "corporatocracy" is accurate. |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:13 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. But many will want to understand what you want to replace it with... |
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Katherine Brengle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. That only matters if you care. |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. And hopefully a better system will grow out of it that you can support too... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
6. I like kleptocrats. n/t |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
16. Aaah.... American literacy... making up words for concepts that already have names. |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 05:56 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. So what is the "simple" name you have for it that already exists? That is the topic here? |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
17. Kakistocracy |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
19. Above all, don't use "Fascism"... |
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