The corporate (and predominantly now Republican) agenda is to work to disenfranchise people from their rights as human beings. Yes, something that nefarious. Perhaps not realized in so many words, at least by most, but the move to define certain rights as “entitlements’ and to disparage that term, effectively disparages rights. Language co-opted in this way ends by convincing people that rights are products of the welfare state. Hence the “owernship society” currently being touted. If this rhetorical feat can be pulled off, it’ll make the criminalization of the term “liberal” look like child’s play. In an “ownership society” the idea of rights, of debts to our fellow human beings, debts of compasssion and recognition of their full and equal humanity–these collapse before the idea that the amount you own is the sole criterion of worth and right. It’s might makes right, pure and simple. The American experiment unravelled at last. Untied States of America.