"An openly hostile relationship" -- how consumers are treated by major corporations

[Uncle Joe]

24. I think that's because the American People are treated as customers or consumers, not clients,

and there are major differences between the two.

The closest macro client relationship that citizens can possibly have is with their representative government, not with any business entity or corporation.

A customer or consumer buys or uses a product, usually for short term use or gain while a well represented client's long term interests are taken into account as well. There is a fiduciary responsibility when dealing with clients.

If your interests are only for the short term, global warming climate change simply doesn't register, although that reality will become increasingly difficult to ignore.

This is why one of first strategies of the GOP was to come between the people and their elective government, starting with Reagan's put down joke "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" this coming from the President of the United States all for the sake of corporations and the people with serious money.

Since that day, the American People have ever been considered as customers or consumers, by the corporate media in the vast majority of their coverage. Corporations and extremely wealthy people were the actual clients either via ownership or major commercial purchasing. The American People were largely just somebody to sell something to whether it be a product, candidate or WAY OF THINKING. Meanwhile the corporate media both increasingly conglomerated into ever fewer hands, but also changed from actually gathering critical information and distributing it to the American People to giving their top down controlled opinion via punditry as to what reality was.

A half century of those dynamics gave us *rump and the only way he can possibly consider the American People is as customers to be sold any product except the truth.

Thanks for the thread lostnfound