OK Quatre Sel, I understand you are a dyed-in-the-wool Liberace but try to keep up with me here.

It is truly ironic that you use the term "corporatism". In the context you've used it here it is actually an indictment on your own political philosophy.

Corporatism is described as tripartism involving negotiations between business groups, labor unions, and state interests to set economic policy using collective identities. Better described as collusion between corporate interests and the state concerning economic policy. When comparing this definition with fascism it becomes easy to draw similarities between the two. Italian facsists directly involved corporatism. Fascist governments also directly controlled private property (further state intervention/control) and pursued economic policies to strengthen the state as opposed to private enterprise.

If one were to gauge left vs. right on the political spectrum the easiest way to do so would be to gauge it based on the level, or scope and size, of government and government intervention into the private marketplace,....i.e. Anarchy (no gov't) on the far right and Communism (total gov't) on the far left.

So,.....the corporatist policies enacted by administrations for decades in this country that have led to "this country going right down the fukkin' shtter" are actually policies that would be considered "leftist",.........no matter what letter happened to appear behind the policy maker's name.

Perhaps it's time you took the blinders off and welcomed yourself to reality.