Originally Posted by Lewbronski

Yes. Smile. Duh.

For those of us who haven’t received the memo, we don’t really live in a “democracy” or a “democratic republic “. We live in a corporatocracy. Laws are made primarily by and for the sake of corporations. Citizens United anyone?

Perhaps for a brief, glittering moment sometime during the 80’s and maybe into the early 00’s, SWA sort of bucked that paradigm and rebelled against the system. Maybe. But, whenever it ended, that moment ended. It’s over. We’re just another corporation playing our part in the corporatocracy. And we have been for at least 10–15 years.