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We have to not vote for the corporate politicians. Which ones are those?

• SyzygistSix 5y ago
  The ones running in the primary elections that almost no one pays attention to or votes in. Places in Maine and Vermont managed to keep out big box stores. Because they cared and cared enough to be informed and vote. It can be more difficult in areas with more people but I think democracy can scale.
• avmich 5y ago
  We have to look at them and find out. We have to _constantly_ look at them, politics isn't a single transaction - you can't have democracy running by itself, you have to always practically support it with attention and resources.
• Nasrudith 5y ago
  Corporate isn't a useful term of division nor a guide to policy. If say Maine lost their mind and decided to try to autarkize their state government they would wind up just running things far less efficiently from effectively a neurotic a fear of companies as HP Lovecraft had of the ocean. The entire framing of "the people vs. corporations" is a massively overreductive us-vs-them clichè used in service of demagoguery. It is divorced from the reality of not only how the system works but even how any theoretical system could and would work. Instead it is about emotional flattery. The whole dichotomy is worse than useless. Like trying to divide politicians between who is a grey and who is a snakeperson, a nonsensical distraction. There are always conflicting interests in complex arrangements. Just look at the dynamics and all of the interests for and against the proposed "US made union manufactured electric vehicle subsidy".