31 See The World：The Corporate Coup D'État【31 看世界 : 企業政變】

31 See The World：The Corporate Coup D'État【31 看世界 : 企業政變】A democracy should protect its citizens, especially the most vulnerable among them, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. Journalist Chris Hedges, argues that the crisis predates Donald Trump’s election by many years. Like his source of inspiration, the Canadian philosopher John Ralston Saul, Hedges regards Trump as the symptom rather than the disease. Decades ago, U.S. democracy began selling its soul to big corporations. Lobbyists and corporatism took control in Washington, gradually undermining the will of the people. Journalist Naomi Klein recently described Trump’s administration as a “corporate coup d’état”. Hedges and Ralston Saul argue that the real coup took place long before.民主的意義在於維護公民權益，尤其是弱勢的公民，然而，美國的民主制度不但無法發揮此作用，情況更是每況愈下。

美國知名戰地記者克里斯‧赫吉斯(Chris Hedges)認爲，這場危機在特朗普當選前已存在多年。他與加拿大哲學家約翰‧拉爾斯頓‧索爾(John Ralston Saul) 均視特朗普為反映社會問題的一種徵狀，而非疾病。幾十年前，美國民主就開始向大企業傾斜。社團主義當道，令華府淪爲説客的傀儡，民衆的意願逐漸被踐踏。最近，記者娜歐蜜‧克萊恩(Naomi Klein) 形容特朗普政府的施政為一場「企業政變」。赫吉斯和索爾則認為，政變的種子，早已被埋下。