Thread by @Doc_0

Having come of age in the 80s, it's been amazing to watch the corporate world swing hard to the Left, while the Left switched from diehard anti-corporatism to fawning reverence for billionaires and big businesses that push the "correct" politics.

The cyberpunk dystopia is here, and guess what? It's giant "liberal" corporations controlling speech and using financial muscle to impose ideology on the masses. Left-wing media swoons while billionaire CEOs tell us how to live. The subversives and rebels are conservatives.

This is so completely, 180 degrees different from the corporatist dystopia liberals constantly predicted during the 80s. All of their visions were nightmarish distortions of their caricature of Reaganism. They either hid the true nature of corporatism or were utterly blind to it.

But this was all inevitable for those who understood that the accumulation of centralized power and corporate money will always swing to the Left eventually - if for no other reason than how easily left-wing virtue signaling conceals and sanctifies greed and the lust for power.

And in retrospect it was so easy for left-wing activists to infiltrate big corporations, or capture the new mega-corps of the Internet era at birth. It's so obvious that left-wing ideology is far more useful for protecting Big Business money than anything the Right offers.

What do corporate Masters of the World really want in the post-industrial era? Protection for their markets, income guaranteed by government policy, protection from rapacious socialists, political influence and respectability as Great Men and Women. Only the Left offers all that.

What's the one resource denied to big corporations under genuine free-market democracy? COERCION. The government can sell coercive force to its richest and most loyal supporters.

The truth of corporatism is that Lefties are much better at amassing and reselling coercion. /end