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What the Republican Party does not advertise is that Republicans are “dependent on corporations.”
What Republican politicians get for being
dependent on corporations is money. We imagine that we are paying them
to do their jobs, which from our perspective entails representing us in
the halls of government. But their real pay is that they receive from
corporations in exchange for their votes. Stop talking about your
Republican congressman. He is not yours at all, but the wholly owned
property of one or more corporations.
And all your average Republican receives
from these corporations which own them, directly or indirectly, is,
well, what everyone else receives from corporations: nothing. Generally,
not even a living wage, and that’s if you work for them. To see the
truth of this, you have only to look at the example of McDonald’s, or Walmart.
And trickle down? The more money Walmart makes, the fewer benefits it passes on to its employees.
Walmart wants to destroy so-called “safety net” yet increasingly
expects its employees to depend on this much-maligned “free stuff” in
order to subsist.
The calculus here is as brazen as it is horrifying,
and points to the worst abuses of the Gilded Age: work till you drop.
You think you’re important to them? Look how they treat the soldiers
they send to war after they’re no longer of use to them.
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