– A few days ago, the U.S. Supreme Court made a terrible 5 to 4 decision granting corporations the same rights as individual human beings to make contributions to political candidates.
– The excessive power of corporations in America and their solely profit-centric reason for existing has been a topic I’ve written a lot on.
– At core, human beings are going to have to make some hard decisions about what the purpose of their governments should be. Should they exist to serve the interests of the people who live under them by maximizing the happiness, health and freedoms of those people? Or, should they be the minions of those who are all about profit and power and the rest of us are just left to just be the folder for them?
– I know where my vote is. But most of the world hasn’t realized realized yet that there’s a question that needs to be decided in play. And in the U.S., the corporations have largely won the day – while the citizens sleep in front of their TVs.
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This week’s Supreme Court ruling that corporations are protected by “free speech” rights and can contribute enormous sums of money to influence elections is a de jure endorsement of the de facto dominance of corporations over our lives. Indeed, corporations are the new citizens of this country, and ordinary Americans, who used to be known as “citizens,” now fall into three categories: consumers, warriors and prisoners.
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