Dear Bernie supporters. Please. Stop!

[Craig234]

302. Oh come on

Do you really need it explained what issues with corporatist mean?

It doesn't mean to get rid of all corporations.

It doesn't mean to return the US to an agrarian society of all farmers raising their own food.

It means when corporations have TOO MUCH POWER to gain too much good for them and bad for the public.

It means when corporations can prevent the public from limiting their polluting for profit.

It means when corporations are said by the Supreme Court they are persons for the purposes of constitutional rights, to that the people can be prevented from exercising control over them.

It means corporations get massive tax burden shifts off of themselves onto the public, for their profit, adding to our debt.

It means corporations defeat the public, on things like regulating them - for example, George Bush appointed 150 industry executives and lobbyists as the top regulators over their own industries.

It means corporations political organize through ALEC, which represents corporations and writes 30% of the laws passed by some Republican states, aimed at protecting their excesses.

A little common sense about what "corporatism" means, in a period when it's massively threatening the public and democracy.