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The latter, corporations sponsor both our major political parties and are at the root of both dumb Republicans and misguided Democrats. Different corporations, different reasons in each individual case, but like bacteria all wiggling around randomly it's moving like one big infection on society.
And Republicans were only abrasive until Regan made it legal for news agencies to lie to people. Evil takes many forms, not all of which are so overt as a horde of useful idiots storming Congress. There are masses of useful idiots earnestly believing they're doing good every day because someone they trust told them something that in turn was told them by someone they trust.
Please, rednecks don't need corporations to be rednecks, they were stringing people up for being "uppity" long before Rupert Murdoch made it mainstream.