Increasingly positive views of socialism at Gallup are mostly at the expense of the growth of corporate power in big businesses.
There's an app for that, but we don't use it enough.
It's called antitrust law.
And of course since Citizens United on January 21, 2010, money has increased the political power of the speech of corporations, so it makes sense that positive views of big business have collapsed from 50 to 35 over the period of the survey.
American patriots have hated the political power of corporations since before the Revolution of 1776, rejecting the argument meant to appeal to the Loyalists among us, that we are mere subjects of his royal highness, The Boss, The Man, The King:
An English colony is a number of persons, to whom the king grants a charter, permitting them to settle in some distant country, and enabling them to constitute a corporation enjoying such powers as the charter grants, to be administered in such forms as the charter prescribes. As a corporation, they make laws for themselves; but as a corporation, subsisting by a grant from higher authority, to the control of that authority they continue subject. ...
-- Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny, 1775
That's why we say . . .
