Corpocrats

[mikehiggins]

Somebody used this term on another thread. Could we use this?

I mean, it may make me seem simple minded but it seems that this really sums it all up in a short, quick term that everyone can grasp in a hurry.

Additionally, it is one we can use in the casual way that doesn't seem to be an attack, but just an observation.

"Well, they don't really seem to be Republicans or Democrats. They're more like some sort of Corpocrat, y'know? Just working for the big guys, not so much for the man in the street, y'know?"

Keep saying it over and over and over and over and...

see if it hooks up with something in the head of that same man in the street.

Sometimes the smallest thing can do the most damage.

[barbaraann]

1. It seems to close to Democrat for me.

I think it should sound more like Republican, but that's just my opinion. :-)

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

3. Corplican?

Corporatan? :bounce:

The original term is Plutocrat of course.

[drfemoe]

5. I agree

2 entries found for Plutocrat.
Entry: capitalist
Function: noun
Definition: owner
Synonyms: backer, banker, boss, bourgeois, businessman, entrepreneur, financier, investor, landowner, money, moneybags, plutocrat, robber baron
Antonyms: communist, socialist
Concept: business person

...

Entry: magnate
Function: noun
Definition: leader
Synonyms: aristocrat, baron, big cheese, big gun, big shot, big wheel, big-timer, biggie, bigwig, businessman, capitalist, chief, czar, fat cat, figure, financier, industrialist, king, leader, lion, magnifico, merchant, merchant prince, mogul, nabob, name, noble, notable, peer, personage, plutocrat, prince, robber baron, tycoon, VIP
Concept: business person

[barbaraann]

7. How about RepubliCON?

The are the worst con artists in the history of the world, it seems to me.

[myccrider]

11. How about Corporicans, instead of Republicans? n/t

[newyawker99]

12. Hi myccrider!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[camero]

2. I like Republinc.

For Repub Inc.

[mikehiggins]

4. I hate to seem cynical

but there are lots of corpocrats in the Democratic party as well.

Just having a (D) after your name (as many of Clark's critics claim) doesn't make you a real democrat.

I think we should look at the line being between those who think government should work for the big guys as opposed to those who think it should work for the people. I recognise there are still lots of people who think a limited federal government is a good thing, but there are also a lot of people who think AIDS is God's judgment on gays. Both points of view are wrong (though one is much more pernicious than the other).

In 2004 nobody is going to buy the idea we should regress our government back to the days of Hamilton and Jefferson. It is a fact of life and the only question is who is going to operate it.

The people or the corpocrats?

Just my opinion, of course. Please keep the tar and feathers away.

[barbaraann]

6. Not tar and feathers, but....

most of us are painfully aware of what you are saying. The big difference between corporate D's and corporate R's in my opinion is that most of the D's are decent people and most of the R's aren't.

There IS a huge difference between Tom Delay and Tom Daschle, for example, regardless of the fact that both do the bidding of corporations to some extent.

[camero]

8. Both are killing us, though

It can't go on for much longer.

[bloom]

10. I don't think the other posters idea was to tar and feather

the Democrats.

That's what Corpocrats sounds like to me.

[loudnclear]

15. Hey, we don't need to support them either!

I'm sticking with term cause it says exactly what I mean!

[ramapo]

9. Corpocracy

Corpocrats sounds good to me.

What else would you call those who run the Corpocracy that we live in.

This sure isn't a Democracy -- government for, of and by the people. It's more like government of the people, for the corporations, by the corporations.

Who would've thought 35 years ago that this is where we were headed?

[evil_orange_cat]

13. corporate republic... ;)

from Civilization: Call To Power...

great game... :D

[JanMichael]

14. "Corpo" or Corpos". London used these terms in "Iron Heel".

Drop the "crat" and your set.

[loudnclear]

16. OK, I'll compromise: Corporcraticans...and that's my final answer!

That way, we can include the Dems who suck also.

Anybody care to vote?

[barbaraann]

17. LOL

How about just "evil, sick, twisted bastards?"

Sorry, I've seen too many of the results of their policies.