Reply #28: corporate conservatives versus corporate "liberals" [View All]

[welshTerrier2]

when the K Street boys make up their shopping lists, it's important to understand that they really have only one concern: PROFITS.

to make more profits, they seek a government that will promote policies that reduce their costs and increase their revenues. cost reductions often are sought in the form of rollbacks of environmental laws, worker safety laws, and trade laws. increases in revenue often come in the form of government contracts especially for defense.

in making their plans, they seek to fund candidates who will pass legislation favorable to them. issues like freedom of choice, religion in schools, gay rights and others are NOT issues they care about directly. to hedge their bets, the approach they use is to find pro-corporate Democrats with "liberal" social agendas and pro-corporate republicans with conservative social agendas. they don't give a damn about those issues but, regardless of which way the public leans on any given issue at any given time, they have a very well funded candidate ready and waiting to fill the demand.

we see this in the current presidential campaign. "if you don't vote for Hillary, we'll get more conservative judges." well, that's true. but it's also true that you'll get more pro-corporate judges. and we will never be free as long as that's the case.

real progressives, instead of the phony ones campaigning for corporate candidates, understand that to be truly progressive requires two elements and not just one. it requires candidates who oppose the abuses of corporations in the political process and liberal social policies as well.

we are being blackmailed by K Street and the corporate candidates they fund, both republicans and Democrats. if you don't vote for X, all these horrible things will happen. citing the balance on the court is just one example. don't give in to the blackmailers. if we really want a government that puts the people's interests first, i.e. puts them ahead of "special corporate" interests, we have to reject ALL corporate funded candidates.