First Public Debate

I suck at research.  My writing suffered all through college, and I was totally put off of writing for a long time because of the huge emphasis on research.  Needing to find sources that support your theories, like 50 sources for a 25 page paper.  What do you do when your theory is something no one has published anything about?
These days my research is limited to what I can find using Google and Wikipedia. Even so, it's hard finding sources that support my ideas.  I've always been more of an essayist, anyway.  I like to put my ideas out there and let others debate about it.
So here's an idea that may or may not be original but I was never able to find a source to support it.  Call it "organizational drift," the idea that, over time, various types of organizations start to resemble other types of organizations.  Specifically, governments start to resemble religions, churches start to resemble businesses and corporations start to resemble governments.
Let's look at examples and try to figure out why this is so.  Right now, the US government resembles nothing more than the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.  Due to its size and complexity it is slow moving and resistant to change.  It has a central figurehead who is expected to be a moral example of all things an American should be.  It is highly corrupt and takes great pains to hide that corruption behind a virtuous facade.  It's most important role is to keep the populace calm and obedient while it mediates disputes between other powerful groups, namely businesses.
Business have come to resemble nations under the Middle Ages feudal system.  Though they are not necessarily united geographically they are kept in constant communication, each supporting a "corporate culture" all of its own.  They are strictly hierarchical with compartmentalized branches, each branch reporting to a central supervisor, and overseen by an all-powerful central leader.  This structure also resembles a military hierarchy and most corporate CEO's, with a few notable exceptions, are former military leaders.
Churches, in America at least, have come to resemble businesses during America's early heyday, though there is some resemblance to the Middle Ages as well.  The most popular churches trace their lineage to travelling evangelists who settled down, just as businesses began as wandering traders and tradesmen.  They are easy to establish but much harder to maintain in an arena with very little brand loyalty.  Many consumers switch quickly from one church to another, even attending multiple churches at once  They are highly competitive and aggressive in attracting followers away from their competition.  The most successful churches are image conscious and advertise via billboards, newspaper ads and even TV commercials.
So that's my thesis.  I'm hoping to start something of a public debate.  I'm sure there are those who agree and others who disagree.