> Methinks that most progressives and Leftists do not realize a
> fundamental difference between the US and other industrialized
> countries: while all other industrialized countries have corporations,
> in the US corporations have a country.
Maybe they didn't see or don't remember the exchange between the (semi)retired Mafioso charcter and the James J. Angleton-based CIA character played by Joe Pesci and Matt Damon in "The Good Shepherd":
JP: You know, we Italians have our families and the church,
the Irish have the homeland, the Jews their tradition,
the n-words their music. What do you guys have?
MD: We have the United States of America. The rest of you
are just visiting.