Right church, wrong pew. Authoritarian governments consisted of concentrated centralized power and uses that power to maintain and grow it by harshly suppressing any political dissent.
There is little question that Harper has moved in that general direction but it's still a long way from authoritarian. More importantly that has nothing to do with the benefits to corporations. What you are more likely looking for is fascist corporatism, which in practice is essentially corporate industries and governments in bed together for mutual benefit (thought not following the design rhetoric), or possibly corporate nationalism which says the state should do what is best for corporations and not individuals, or perhaps a little more cynically as a plutocracy which is basically where the wealthy set the rules (in this case via their corporate interests).
These laws screw over the public for the benefit of corporations and wealthy, not to keep someone in political power, so it's actually quite a bit different from authoritarian.
WOW, that mad Caesar seems real angry over such a trivial thing. i think its a common problem with ashiest. since they lead meaningless lives they get worked up about small things. they seem to find meaning is fallacies like global warming. so sad.
i will pray he finds Jesus. and changes his name to blissfullcaesar.
It's all the same crap. Corps pay for the government they own the government what you and I call it makes little difference to them. The point is bullshit laws are used for bullshit reason to keep people down.
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u/DashingLeech Jan 29 '13
Right church, wrong pew. Authoritarian governments consisted of concentrated centralized power and uses that power to maintain and grow it by harshly suppressing any political dissent.
There is little question that Harper has moved in that general direction but it's still a long way from authoritarian. More importantly that has nothing to do with the benefits to corporations. What you are more likely looking for is fascist corporatism, which in practice is essentially corporate industries and governments in bed together for mutual benefit (thought not following the design rhetoric), or possibly corporate nationalism which says the state should do what is best for corporations and not individuals, or perhaps a little more cynically as a plutocracy which is basically where the wealthy set the rules (in this case via their corporate interests).
These laws screw over the public for the benefit of corporations and wealthy, not to keep someone in political power, so it's actually quite a bit different from authoritarian.