Reply #195: I believe you are over-ascribing motives to unrelated phenomena. [View All]

The failure of progressive candidates to gain media support is not evidence of a media conspiracy (organized or otherwise) again them, but is rather a result of their lack of appeal to most people. Super-liberals Dennis Kucinich does not get much media coverage for the same reason that Tom Tancredo doesn't--neither garner much appeal except for among political extremists, even when their views are exposed. To some degree, this is indeed self-reinforcing; the American political mainstream is narrowed as viable candidates rush to cram themselves in that small political space, and as the media only cover those, the mainstream is narrowed further still. However, this is the unavoidable result of a lazy and profit-driven media, not evidence of "media culling."

The Democrats and Republicans often act in ways that benefit corporations. However, there is a great deal of difference between the two parties. It may be simply the difference between regulated-corporatists on the left and anti-regulation corporatists on the right, but the two sides are certainly not working together, nor are they united in attempts to stamp out dissent.

Unfortunately, what you propose amounts to defining all governments that exhibit any degree of economic liberalism as "fascist." While there is nothing preventing you from doing so, that is hardly a useful definition, and certainly a misleading one.