[wahnfrieden]

> "capitalist" countries can and do regulate businesses. Those that are democracies do so based on the general interest of the citizenry

You have a strong reading of the level of citizen constituency at play in these neoliberal corporate welfare states

[chitowneats]

This type of cynicism about countries like Canada and the U.S. is unwarranted when looking at the full sweep of history. Progress was made in the past. All is not lost.