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Democracy is supposed to have something to do with majority rule or at least having policies that benefit the greatest number. When corporations that answer to no one use their disproportionate financial resources to hijack the political system and push policies that hurt the common people, that is fascism, yes.

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Which corporations "that answer to no one" (no publicly traded companies) have hijacked the political system and which policies have come about as a result that have hurt the majority of people actually represented by that system in ways that aren't:

A) Vagaries that most people don't actually care much about.

B) Tradeoffs that didn't go the way you personally want.

> Democracy is supposed to have something to do with majority rule or at least having policies that benefit the greatest number

No. Modern democracy is supposed to protect the minority and allow regular peaceful transitions of power. That's why we need individual liberties and constitutional rules that protect the individual and prevent the majority to take away their liberties.

Agreed. That is why there is a Constitution with Amendments that describes the rules and why it requires a supermajority to change them.

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