If significant health care reform fails

[TransitJohn]

there will be anger. Look out. What I want to know is how likely would it be for we on the Left to galvanize that (hypothetical and hopefully not seen) anger into a popular constitutional amendment ending corporate personhood?

[mike_c]

1. that will take an actual revolution, I think...

...and undoubtedly a violent one. Power is completely concentrated in the hands of politicians who work for the corporations openly. Sure, they could be replaced via the electoral process, but that will not happen during our lifetimes, and they will fight by any means available, including using the power of the state to protect their personal privilege.

The only way to accomplish it is to throw the bums out wholesale, and that won't happen unless it happens suddenly and comprehensively, IMO. That means people in the streets, general strikes, civil unrest. Kieth Olberman has begun talking about "meeting at the barricades." That's where the changes will come, I think. Or via the courts, just possibly. I just don't see any other way.

[TransitJohn]

2. That's what I'm starting to think too.

I'm just hopeful that the issue has started to inch into the public discourse now. Hopefully it starts gaining notoriety.

[HillbillyBob]

3. Some of us have been talking about the need to put some shackles

on that corpse personhood and the purchase of congress critters by those same corpses and that some of those directors of said corps need to be put in shackles.

We also need to see public funding, a return of the fairness doctrine.
Something like the French do, equal air time for candidates, after all those are OUR air waves, media companies rent those air waves from US via the FCC.

[tsuki]

4. And the Roberts Court is poised to hand our sovereignty to the

multinational corporations. They will be able to buy congresscritters wholesale.

[HughMoran]

5. Ahh, the "if" threads starting up already

unrec & hide - get a life.

[Deja Q]

7. Can the OP have yours? Probably needs to get laid more than I do...

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

6. The President said, as paraphrased by Bob Scheiffer, that if what he wants now won't work,

that the public option might be a viable choice later on.

I'll agree with that.