I expect there to be at least two more SC Justices that Obama will get to nominate. I can only hope he has the courage to nominate a couple of truly liberal judges instead of these "centrists" he's so fond of working with. If he doesn't, this country is in for some very scary times.
And so we find ourselves in the early Twenty First Century in a pitched battle. Will we have a government of the Corporations, by the Corporations and for the Corporations. Or a government of the People, by the People and for the People?
As we wait to see if the Supreme Court headed by a Corporate (well Republican, but it is a distinction without much difference) appointed Chief Justice will preside over a new era of politics wherein there are no limits on Corporate donations to political candidates [ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/opinion/11fri3.html ] ....thus ensuring that all candidates will sell out to the Corporation who bids the highest...
As we wait to see if Corporations can keep their (almost literal) stranglehold on the Health of all Americans...
As we wait to see what new regulations the Financial Corporations will allow the government to impose on them... [ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a7UTn7JFw1qk ] (Since we have "solved the 'too big to fail problem by making banks BIGGER)
As we wait to see just how badly the Corporations will water down the Planet Saving Climate Change Legislation...
As we wait to see if Corporations can still blow the tops of of mountains and dump them in the sea...
As we wait to see how much influence the Military Industrial Corporations will influence our new President...
As we wait to see what the next move the Corporations will make to try to limit The Last Hope of a free People...the internet
And as we live in a world where Corporations help our government to spy on us, where Corporations determine what food is available to many of us, where Corporations are busily buying up the water supply, as Corporations determine what we see on our screens and what music we hear...
One must ask oneself, is this how it ends? Not with a bang but a whimper? The insidious and slow but inexorable incursions of Corporate Control of our government and our lives lacks the drama of ten thousand war heads of a Soviet first strike, or airliners bringing down buildings or some despotic dictator with a fierce mustache and no actual weapons menacingly waving his rifle from a balcony, but the creeping and quite literally fascist Corporate takeover of our politicians pocketbooks is perhaps to be more feared because of it's subtlety and Glacial (if those still exist) Pace that hides the danger of robbing us of our rights and freedoms than any OUTSIDE nefarious menace.
How do you stop a Corporation?
Especially when your friends and neighbors and quite possibly you yourself either work for, are dependent on business from, or own stock in those very corporations?
How do you fight the Corporations?
When they so easily ....and cheaply....buy our politicians, adding each one to their basket as if they were eggs or rutabagas on market day? When every branch of the bureaucracy and each individual agency, and nearly all of the representatives in our representative government have come to so firmly and vociferously believe that their function is to serve what we used to call Big Business...before the Corporations told us to quit calling them that?
There are only two solutions, and those solutions have to be the Holy grail that above everything else every progressive...NAY!...every American seeks!
FULL Public Financing of every election from dog catcher on up and the abolishment of the interpretation of the 14th Amendment that proclaims Corporations to be Human Beings.
(Ironically, to keep them from bearing the responsibilities that real Human Being bear and to allow them to have powers that no real Human Being possess.
As Malcom said: "We've been hoodwinked. We've been had. We've been took. We've been led astray, led amok. We've been bamboozled.
Among all of the pressing issues of the day, this one fact, this one issue, this one indisputable reality stands above all the rest...
And so we find ourselves in the early Twenty First Century in a pitched battle. Will we have a government of the Corporations, by the Corporations and for the Corporations. Or a government of the People, by the People and for the People?
There may be small victories on Health Care or the environment ...or in the laws that govern our political system through governing the electoral process...but until we convince....somehow...our Corporate Controlled government to rescind or severely limit these faceless conglomerations of greed, true democracy will not be safe. As long as commercial interests are able to outbid the interests of The People, our government will serve them, and not us.
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