Source: Common Dreams
by Thom Hartmann
“The 1986 American Heritage Dictionary defines fascism as … ‘A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.’ We’re about to be there. The power of government to both reward and punish is awesome. No other entity can legally take money away from citizens at gunpoint and hand it to others it favors. No other entity has the power to deprive people of their freedom and even their lives. No other entity can use both of those powers to regulate how business must be conducted. Any company so willing to engage with such tainted government leadership should alarm us all. When Disney, a $248 billion dollar company, decided to give a $15 million donation to Donald Trump’s presidential library slush fund, they didn’t do so because they were worried about losing a defamation lawsuit.” (12/18/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-corporate-fascism