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This Is Not Going to End Well, Is It?

Preface: I don’t really see the point of doing this anymore. The vast majority of people I know would prefer if corporations ran society. I don’t suggest that this trend came about naturally, merely that it is so and trying to battle that is like “pushing” {thanks, autocorrect} up a rope or blowing in the wind. But I am forced to. I suggest also that anyone who cannot understand how they endorse and embrace the former thing on a daily basis has no hope of ever understanding the latter, so again this is more of a note from the kidnapped than any suggestion I think there’s a valid or useful purpose for doing so. “I told you so,” after the fact is only satisfying to a degree. Let’s review, starting with the sense, but only a portion of it, spewed by Glenn Greenwald. Glenn is a libertarian, and this is the general excuse and motivation given for his—not entirely undeserved—criticism of the corporate wing of the Democratic Party. He is correct in pointing out that there were many falsehoods