Saturday, September 06, 2025

Blaming corporations has been associated with the left, but it recently has fueled right wing populism as well.

For most of our economic and social problems, I tend to blame people's behavior, in mass. Other folks tend to blame institutions such as corporations and / or government.

Recently much of the blame against corporations which has traditionally been thought of as being from the left, has shifted to being from the right. Lots of blame now comes from the right against corporate elites, government elites and so forth. The right has always tended to blame government while the left blames business, but now blame of both fuels the right.

Yes, some blame can be laid on elites and institutions, but I think this wholescale hostility and trashing of our institutions can, ironically, bring us to a more authoritarian society.

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