America's corpocracy, or what I call the Devil's marriage between dominant corporate and subordinate government America, is a vast domain of thousands of colluding corporations and government agencies. 1
While the corpocracy's rampant and successful wrongdoing is what makes the corpocracy so powerful, it still must depend on customers to survive and thrive. Customers? Let's make that more often "victims," people harmed by the corpocracy's wrongdoing in some way or another from trivial to irrevocable, like death.
Ironically, one of the corpocracy's victims is itself, as when the Department of War is exploited by the war industry. 2 This article is not about how the corpocracy can protect itself from itself. Why would I ever want to offer self help to the corpocracy? Better that it self-destructs! No, this article is a review of the literature on ways in which Americans victimized by the corpocracy can fight back, if they should be plucky enough or sure enough.
Why, you may well ask, do I even bother to write this article since the counterpuncher is invariably outpunched, sometimes more than once? Since Corporate America tells Government America what to do and not to do, if there is no redress from the former, there is unlikely to be any from the latter either. Since Government America is a corporate service, not a public service, "the public be Damned" is more likely to be the outcome of any follow-up counterpunching. Nevertheless, being an informed customer surely is preferable to being an uninformed customer, particularly at the beginning when the options are to buy or not to buy a suspect product or service.
Not writing the article, moreover, would be defeatist, a response to be avoided. Moreover, writing a good article requires good second-hand research only fingertips away from the keyboard and the Internet that just might yield some practical insights and revelations.
But before getting to the types of counterpunches available to those wronged, let's quickly scan the land of wrongdoers to remind us of who they are and what they do to their customers. Excluded will be the greatest wrongdoers of history, the U.S. war (and gun) industry and the U.S. Department of War. 3 Their customers and non-customer victims are well known and fall outside the present topic.
A Few Examples of Wrongdoers and Their Wrongdoing
Since knowledgeable readers of the alternative media already know what they know about the subject at hand and are also victimized customers themselves, only a few examples are given for the three more harmful industries. 4 A few examples are also given for the retail industry simply because of the sheer volume of their customers.
Pharmaceutical Industry. Diluted cancer drugs to boost profits. Successfully lobbies to keep drug prices high. Sells pills that kill about 100,000 Americans annually. Markets a drug that is more expensive than alternative drugs and deadly among adults and children.
Agriculture/Chemical Industries. Sued a farmer claiming he was using the company's patented seeds. Causes billions of dollars to be spent yearly for healthcare, subsidies, environmental damage, and more from producing and consuming foods laced with pesticides, antibiotics and GMOs.
Financial Services Industry. Created and marketed fantasy financial products plummeting U.S. into its 2 nd greatest depression. Soaks credit card holders with excessive rates. Constantly raises deductibles while shrinking coverage. Hem haws in honoring insurance claims and short changes legitimate claims.
Retail Industry. A dozen or so large corporations monopolize this industry. Its predominate victims are their employees who work for pittance and are bullied along the way, bullied suppliers, and small communities that lose their small retailers when a mammoth retailer arrives on the scene. An illustrative retailer is Walmart, referred to as "the beast from Bentonville," by the author of an incriminating expose. 5
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