corporatism
Corporatism is a bizarre polity where corporations don democratic masks to claim they represent citizens. It speaks of participation and cooperation, yet behind closed doors profits are parcelled out at private banquets. It boasts of free markets yet ends up as a pyramid fed only to the chosen few. Meetings preach fairness, yet only the loudest podium hogs get to campaign. Claiming to voice society’s concerns, it simply ranks participants by who shouts the loudest. It is a pageant of ideals, draped in a garment of deception that conceals the gulf between rhetoric and reality.