I've only gotten through the first page but there is already enough in here that I thought some here might find interesting and possibly enlightening.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/sheldon_wolin_and_inverted_totalitarianism_20151101
Hohum, another progressive genius takes his shot at corporations. Wow, that's something new. Yes, yes, its those evil corporations! It couldn't possibly be the fault of us citizens!
Our system of inverted totalitarianism will avoid harsh and violent measures of control “as long as ... dissent remains ineffectual,” he told me. “The government does not need to stamp out dissent. The uniformity of imposed public opinion through the corporate media does a very effective job.”
Why would citizens rebel against govt when a huge percentage of them are so dependent upon it? Nearly every solution the left aspires to brings more big govt along with it, which in turn requires corporate partnerships to fulfill, creating too-big-to-fail alliances.
Why are the only ones with a consistent message of real governmental change on the right? They see the negative effects to their liberty (and therefore their power as citizens) by an ever-expanding central govt, and though sometimes poorly aimed, seek to roll-back or limit those creations.
Politicians crave power. Our citizens have become greedy when looking at govt, asking what can it do for me, instead of what used to be "how can I have the freedom to succeed on my own". That combination creates all the opportunity needed to eventually enslave citizens to systems of dependency, and create a future where their children will suffer from the burden of debt their parents so greedily accumulated.
I haven't read the whole article, so, do, correct me if I'm wrong but the main point I got here was not "we need the government to fix everything for us" it was more similar to the point you are making: too much power consolidated into one sector, in this case Too Big To Fail Corporate power, is bad. Very bad.
If the article goes on to advocate for big government with overreaching government control of everything then, that is very, very bad too.
The main point that I got here though is not that the government is too big or too small, it's that the government is completely under the influence of corporate interests and not the interests of its citizens which is you can call an undesirable or desirable situation but you can't call it a democracy. Everywhere else in the world that's called either oligarchy or a banana republic etc.
Corporations are utterly and totally motivated by profit. That is it. Governments should be motivated by governance. The two need to be separated.
