Time to Topple Corporate Dictators

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Time-to-Topple-Corporate-D-by-Ralph-Nader-110219-904.html

The 18 day non-violent Egyptian protests for freedom raise the question: is America next? Were Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine around, they would likely say "what are we waiting for?" They would be appalled by the concentration of economic and political power in such a few hands. Remember how often these two men warned about concentrated power.

Our Declaration of Independence (1776) listed grievances against King George III. A good number of them could have been made against "King" George W. Bush who not only brushed aside Congressional War-making authority under the Constitution but plunged the nation through lies into extended illegal wars which he conducted in violation of international law. Even conservative legal scholars such as Republicans Bruce Fein and former Judge Andrew Napolitano believe he and Dick Cheney still should be prosecuted for war and other related crimes. The conservative American Bar Association sent George W. Bush three "white papers" in 2005-2006 that documented his distinct violations of the Constitution he had sworn to uphold.

Here at home, the political system is a two-party dictatorship whose gerrymandering results in most electoral districts being one-party fiefdoms. The two Parties block the freedom of third parties and independent candidates to have equal access to the ballots and to the debates. Another barrier to competitive democratic elections is big money, largely commercial in source, which marinates most politicians in cowardliness and sinecurism.

Our legislative and executive branches, at the federal and state levels, can fairly be called corporate regimes. This is corporatism where government is controlled by private economic power. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called this grip "fascism" in a formal message to Congress in 1938.

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[RKP5637]

1. Would it be fair to say we are now a fascist country? I'm concerned most

Americans still don't get what is going on ... Each day IMO the country strays further and further from the notion of "we the people." I think democracy is still an illusion held, but it seems it's fading quickly to a corporate stranglehold.

[Donnachaidh]

2. until we have representatives who are willing to call the Kochs in for questioning

I think we are.

If the dems were to hold top secret meetings with corporate owners, the pukes would be screaming sedition. WHERE is that voice with the Dems?

[pacalo]

3. More than fair. The RepubliCorporatist activists on the Supreme Court

made "citizens" of corporations in order to outrank ordinary citizens' voice & campaign dollars. Crooked politicians legislate according to who gives them the most money. Money rules, so if fascism requires a dictator, corporations are it.

[txlibdem]

4. +1

It definitely IS time to topple the dictatorship of the dollar. The Americans who fought and died to protect the principles this country were founded upon demand that we act -- or are we too weak, too cowardly, less capable of the people of Egypt.

[MasonJar]

5. Our only salvation would be to have publicly supported

elections. That will never happen since the losers in Congress would be defunded. They are owned by the corporate world. We are close to the end of American democracy. Revolt may become inevitable. King George is beginning to look good. That being of course King George Washington.

[Populist_Prole]

6. Ripping my hair out

I just can't think of a single solitary social issue so important so as to make a working class member want support an unabashedly corporatist party or candidate. I mean, it's all just abstract bullshit. Your livelyhood is real. Do they download fundie propaganda through USB ports in their heads overnight while sleeping?

Even someone of below average intelligence should see this.

Ripping my hair out in frustration............

[txlibdem]

8. Amen

It never ceases to amaze and frustrate me. I almost fell on the floor when I heard the recent election results...

Are these people (who voted the Pukes back in) stupid, crazy or a combination of both?!?

[Demeter]

7. Past time, really

But since this is the only time we have, have at them!

[midnight]

9. K&R