corporotic, cor-por-o-tic n.
Rule by unaccountable international corporations that promote sex, pornography, nationalist posturing and the antics of public “personalities” in order to the divert public attention away from real social and political issues and safeguard and promote their own political and commercial interests.
Thus, corporatocracy, the political system that under the current Republican regime has replaced a form of democracy based on the 18th Century Constitution.
May this new definition be one of my lasting gifts to mankind!
Then you must send it to the Concise Oxford Dictionary for inclusion at their next printing.
To get from the early days of the Constitutional Republic (1789 to 1832ish) to 21st Century, you have to travel through the post-Civil War 1870s, 1880s and 1890s and watch what the Supreme Court did. The word “persons” in the First Amendment was interpreted through a series of cases, to apply to corporations. So if you look at all the guarantees listed in the First Amendment they all came to be applied to corporations which, of course, are not natural persons.
The upshot? corporations can accumulate wealth beyond imagining and individuals, of course, have the nasty habit of dying, forcing them to redistribute their resources. Try suing Walmart, or GE, or Verizon. Their pockets are extremely deep and you don’t even have pockets.
The only way to reverse this, it seems to me, is to appoint a court of justice-seeking justices or for Congress to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court which they have the power to do.
Good luck to us!