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It is most definitely not socialist, Sam. The form of government where corporations rule and where politicians are only puppets for those corporations, is called
fascism, not socialism.
Acronymians tend to associate the word "fascism" with Nazi-Germany, but Nazism was Hitler's own form of fascism — and national-socialism has nothing to do with socialism, for that matter. However, the USA — which is the driving force behind globalism — has for a long time already been a fascist nation in every sense of the word, albeit that some aspects of its fascist nature are somewhat shrouded. The following is a short list of elements typically found in fascism:
- Corporatism. In an overtly fascist regime, there is only one political party, but in the USA, there are two official parties — anything else is called "independent" and doesn't count. Certain states don't even allow an independent candidate to run for office. And there's a reason as to why those people are called "independent", i.e. they do not belong to either of the two parties which are under full corporate control, and which are themselves legal corporations as well.
- Militarism. The USA is an over-militarized nation. Being a member of the military grants one a higher social status among the population, and especially so if one happens to be a member of the US Marine Corps, which is considered an elite division of the US military. The US Marine Corps was specifically created so as to operate outside of the US borders, by the way, so it's technically not even a defense contingent. The higher social status of US military personnel is also merely a propaganda element, because once those troops come back home from having fought a war — and the USA is perpetually at war, either under its own title or under the cloak of NATO — they are coldly abandoned by their government.
- Propaganda. The US education system is specifically geared toward indoctrination with propaganda, and given how the USA is entirely controlled by the corporations and devoted to capitalism, the Acronymian population is constantly being flooded with commercials, which are a form of propaganda as well. Furthermore, the US education system is so poor that the average Acronymian has virtually no knowledge of what is (really) going on outside of the USA.
- Elitism and nationalism. American Exceptionalism is a very real phenomenon, and Barack Obama has himself openly stated on camera — during his speech at the West Point academy in 2015 — that he is a strong believer in American Exceptionalism, i.e. the belief that the USA is superior to any other nation in the world.
- Emphasis on citizenship and patriotism, as motivational factors for participating in either the corporate world or in the military.
- Appearances are more important than facts. The make-believe becomes the people's reality. Look at all the TV presenters with their fake hair, whitened teeth or fake boobs, or the amount of attention spent on celebrities in the media. The same tenet extends into the area of presidential elections. It's more about charisma and/or a candidate's affinity with a specific population group than about the candidate's political intentions.
- Dictatorship. Even though the position of President of the USA is electable, the President will of course always be the serf of the corporations — that's what the bipartisan system was created for — and he (or she) has the power of executive to overrule the US Congress, as well as the power to suspend the US Constitution by declaring a nationwide martial law.
- Surveillance culture. The NSA is operating outside of the law, and is even intercepting all kinds of IT-related equipment as it ships from the factory, in order to then have it modified and have backdoors installed at a third-party company, after which it is packaged up again professionally and transported to the retailers as it normally would have been.
All of the above are the properties of fascism, Sam. And through the imperialism of American Exceptionalism and the military hegemony, that fascism is what drives the trend toward globalism.