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In reply to the discussion: A Warning to America [View all]CrispyQ
(36,464 posts)45. We need to revoke corporate personhood & get money out of our electoral process.
There was a time when the corporate charter was to serve the community, not the shareholders. Now it's the opposite. There has to be some kind of balance.
Lot's of good links here: http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-personhood/
"Slavery is the fiction that people are property; corporate personhood is the fiction that corporations are people."
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we have always had divisions, the difference today? Its clearly based on racism and nationalism,
beachbum bob
Apr 2019
#3
we beat them by overwhelming at the polls in 2020, 2022,2024, etc...sitting out NO longer
beachbum bob
Apr 2019
#34
When Blitzer asked if a man without health insurance should die, right wingers heckled with "Yeah!"
ck4829
Apr 2019
#4
The toxic partisanship is the result of Movement Conservatives within the Republican Party.
no_hypocrisy
Apr 2019
#5
We need to revoke corporate personhood & get money out of our electoral process.
CrispyQ
Apr 2019
#45
All so true. I have a theory that it was the advent of business news channels that is a root cause.
Laura PourMeADrink
Apr 2019
#41
Ask your golf buddy if the trillions of dollars in bank bailouts were socialism.
CrispyQ
Apr 2019
#47
Very well stated. Trumpsers can "ignore reality" largely because FOX and hate radio tell
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2019
#21
WHY they believe FOX 'news' is the $64,000 question. FOX dishes out crap and
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2019
#52
It's also caused when anyone claims that Democrats are the same as Republicans. Or...
NurseJackie
Apr 2019
#44