It just seems like most of the so called moderates/centrists are always backed by big money, donors, and special interests. The beauty of centrism is that it takes views from the right and views from the left, varying on different issues and situations. It would be nice to have a anti-establishment non-corrupt centrist in charge. Now obviously I would assume most centrists, do lean slightly more in one direction, but that isn't a bad thing. Does centrism exist because of corruption? I would argue no not exactly, but it can certainly make a "super liberal" a not so super liberal and vice versa with the right. Tell me what you think. What are your thoughts?
Which winning politicians aren't bankrolled with lots of money? The term "corporatist" is a semantic nullity among reasonable folks in the private sector. It doesn't mean what the left thinks it means.
I would argue that yes you are right most big, prevalent and winning politicians are getting funded by big money. That in turn makes them more centrist. Their policies change in favor of what their donors want. I totally disagree with you on the definition of a corporatist. You seem to be confusing it with a corrupt politician and some smart business people in the private sector. I believe a corporatist is an order taking politician who does what their "corporate" donors want them to do.
I am a centrist but that doesn't mean I am against large corporations that offer good salaries good benefits that smaller businesses can not afford to.
The problem with that is that 99.9% of the 30 million corporations and other business entities in the country are honest, law abiding and not graft seeking, create jobs, pay taxes, donate endlessly to their communities. They are the plumber that lives down the road and the doctor that gets up at 5AM six days a week. Their reward for all they do is to have a target on their back from overzealous, stupid career bureaucrats (democrats) crooked tv plaintiff lawyers (democrats) and taxpayer funded union label propaganda machines (democrats) waiting to tell them how "they didn't build that" and how after decades of often below market pay, when they finally get ahead late in their careers, that they are "the rich" "the 1%" and that they "took someone else's piece of the pie." All self-serving lies and arrogance in place of what should be gratitude for their knitting the country together in ways that politicians NEVER do but take credit for anyway. Using the term "corporatist" puts the emphasis on the wrong end of the graft. I prefer "statist" for describing the phenomenon. Government is the problem, kill the brain, kill the ghoul.
