apple slices that don't turn brown!

[Collector]

Wifezilla, I think I would call it corruption.
So many Americans believe that more gov is the answer. I am not in that camp, it just furthers " special interests" ie: corruption. We can hardly afford any further abuses of the constitution by those sworn to protect it.

 

[wifezilla]

While it is a form of corruption there is a specific term for private ownership of business with government direction and control.

I got some guesses via PM but nobody has got it yet.

One is bruised and has brown spots on it, the other is unblemished. Which one do you choose? These may be or may not be GMO apples.

Bid, the choice in your example should be NEITHER! But the GMO fruit tricks you in to thinknig you are getting fresh food when you aren't.

 

[bid]

I think it is corporatism, but perhaps the specific term you are looking for is planned capitalism. I am looking forward to learning what the term actually is.

I am not sure why the choice should be neither, although that is certainly one option. Allow me to restate it. In the context of eye appeal you have a choice of two apples from Granny Smith's orchard. Granny grows her apples organically. One is bruised and has brown spots while the other is unblemished. Which apple do you choose?

 

[ninnymary]

Is it partnership?

Mary

 

[lesa]

Interestingly enough, when I started buying organic apples I expected them to have less "eye appeal". I must say the apples are lovely. No blemishes. I bought a bag of unorganic local apples. They were so awful and full of bruises, that we didn't use them as "eating" apples, I just made them right into applesauce. Makes you wonder....

 

[wifezilla]

The correct answer is FASCISM.

"There's been great debate over what fascism is, particularly in recent years as the definition has become muddied. The fascist dictatorships of the 1930s had a good many attributes in common - racism, totalitarianism, demagoguery, suppression of dissent, and aggressive militarism, and nobody appreciates governments like that. It was these characteristics that earned fascism the opprobrium which it so richly deserves.

In the area of economics, however, there's also a pattern in fascism that distinguishes it from other totalitarian systems such as communism: Fascism preserves private ownership of property, but subjects private property to stringent government control."

 

[Collector]

Wifez, very good lesson I must agree with your assesment. We must end the bastardising of the constitution before it is something only found in history books.

 

[Ladyhawke1]

The correct answer is FASCISM.

"There's been great debate over what fascism is, particularly in recent years as the definition has become muddied. The fascist dictatorships of the 1930s had a good many attributes in common - racism, totalitarianism, demagoguery, suppression of dissent, and aggressive militarism, and nobody appreciates governments like that. It was these characteristics that earned fascism the opprobrium which it so richly deserves.

In the area of economics, however, there's also a pattern in fascism that distinguishes it from other totalitarian systems such as communism: Fascism preserves private ownership of property, but subjects private property to stringent government control."

"Etymology:

The term fascismo is derived from the Italian word fascio, which means "bundle" or group, and from the Latin word fasces. The fasces, which consisted of a bundle of rods that were tied around an axe, was an ancient Roman symbol of the authority of the civic magistrate. They were carried by his lictors and could be used for corporal and capital punishment at his command.[28][29] The word fascismo also relates to political organizations in Italy known as fasci, groups similar to guilds or syndicates.

The symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity: a single rod is easily broken, while the bundle is difficult to break.[30] Similar symbols were developed by different fascist movements. For example the Falange symbol is a bunch of arrows joined together by a yoke.[31] However, other fascist movements and ideologies, such as Nazism, did not use this form of economy.[27]"


From what I have learned about the word fascism, it is the corporations that control the government. Each corporation had a special interest and that is what they controlled.

What you have in this country is too much corporate money going to the politicians .thus they cannot just say NO. Get the money out of politics or suffer the imperialism of corporate control.

 

[wifezilla]

From what I have learned about the word fascism, it is the corporations that control the government.

At first it can look like that. It mutates over time. (Schindler's list?) It is a sick, symbiotic relationship.