'But our youth culture tells us that corporations have the power to control our lives. They don't.''
Corporations, as vast interconnected market forces, probably effect us as much as the federal government does. They receive the pork in spending bills and they set the general agenda for congressional spending. If they determine what products get into your store, they affect you, if they put carcinogens into your food without telling you, they affect you, if their lobbyists strip environmental protections that poison your water and give you cancer, they affect you. There are, of course, ways around these problems but pretending that global corporations don't have any power over your life and your state and your government is ignorant.