I put it down to 50 plus years of indoctrination that corporations are evil and government is saintly.
I don't know if anyone even in government fully believes that, at least as simplistically as you put it.
Capitalism run wild is just about as bad as government gone wild. Both prefer to answer only to themselves, and play by their own self imposed, self disposed rules. Everything else can just stand back.
Modern multi-national corporations, many of which are ex-American by makeup, play to global markets, caring little to nothing for the host country from which they sprung. We ''the people'' are just nameless, faceless numbers and statistics, lumped together without distinction with those from abroad.
''Our'' federal government has been flying a one world flag for decades now, increasingly disregarding the very country from which they sprung. We ''the people'' are just nameless, faceless numbers and statistics, lumped together with little distinction with those from abroad. Try Mexico and Israel for but two quick examples.
Hopefully someday you'll come to see it's not one or the other contemporarily, it's both. When taken together, it has all the trappings of an insatiably corrupt, twin headed dragon. And an alien one at that, with agendas that are anything but what ''free enterprise'' and ''democracy'' once stood for in America, the very tenets that helped build this country for this country.
