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In United vs FEC, corporations were granted to the ability to be treated as persons - with all the rights - when it was good for them. And to enjoy the protect
by talkingtab 2y ago
In United vs FEC, corporations were granted to the ability to be treated as persons - with all the rights - when it was good for them. And to enjoy the protections of being a corporation when that was good for them. This was a unilateral decision by the US Supreme Court.
The result is that corporations now choose who candidates are in the US and who gets elected. Once a candidate is elected they serve the master who got them elected. Not, We the people. Any even casual evaluation of the laws passed confirms this. Affordable medical care, which the People want and need? No. Obscene profits from corporations overcharging people for medical care? Great!
Regular people push addictive drugs? Jail. The Sackler Family, probably the biggest cause of drug overdoes deaths ever? Are they in jail? And what about the millions of stock owners who made a tidy sum? Did they lose their money, are they in jail? Nope.
We are not a democracy, we are a corpocracy. Because of a US Supreme Court decision. We need to fix this. And hint: is the word corporation in the US Constitution. Hint #2 does the 14th amendment prohibit unequal protection under the law.
In a democracy the representatives represent the will of the people. In a corpocracy they represent the will of the wealthy corpocrats and corporations. We have two corpocratic parties to choose from. Democrats and Republicans.
We need to fix this.