Conflate

I'm not trying to conflate the two, because I would really need to conflate all three- modern Democrats, modern Republicans, and prominent collectivists in history.

I find the statism promoted by both wings of the modern American corporate party to be appalling.

The modern Republicans try and convince people to relax restrictions on corporations by scaring them about the power of government.

The modern Democrats try and convince people to relax restrictions on government by scaring them about the power of corporations.

But behind the curtain, government and corporate power merged long ago, and Big Business and Big Government are partners. Neither provides the true restraint necessary against the other, because they are both running the same dialectical 'problem>reaction>solution' strategy leading to their desired synthesis solution.

Russia gave people one choice: Red.

America gives people two choices, Coke and Pepsi, and that's what has kept our public controlled for longer than Soviet Russia's: as long as people think they are choosing between Coke and Pepsi, they don't feel trapped in a centrally-planned economy.