Get ready for corporate influence in politics to explode

[Lorien]

At a time when election reform is needed now more than ever to allow citizens a fraction of the influence big corporations enjoy, big corporations are winning the ability to wield even MORE influence over our elections:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4218309&mesg_id=4218309

[DJ13]

1. The final step

This will usher in a true fascist government without the pretense that the politicians work for us.

[Lorien]

4. And it's being ushered in with barely a peep from the M$M

while the people are distracted by the underwear would-be bomber and Reid's idiotic statement our ACTUAL freedom-Democracy of, by and for the people- evaporates with barely a whimper.

[atreides1]

2. The end of the "Great Experiment"

Benjamin Franklin emerged from the Constitutional Convention and a lady asked him, "Well, Mr. Franklin, what kind of government have you given us?" He replied, "Madam, we have given you a republic – if you can keep it."


It looks like we failed to keep our Republic!

[Odin2005]

3. The Republic is lost.

:cry:

[thotzRthingz]

5. thot it already exploded (eight yrs of BUSH, corps writing legislation for health care reform, etc.)

[Lorien]

6. It did, but now ALL limits on corporations will likely be removed

meaning that groups like MoveOn and the Sierra Club won't stand a chance of having a voice in the process.

[blues90]

7. Perhaps people who are still sane should realize it is OVER

And look at this and approach this as a given and then react.

I really don't have any faith in politics at all anymore or reps or the global economy. Is this what we really want?

Look where we've come after all these years. It is the same old talking points and spun out of control now.

People need to heal this division we have or we are done. We can't leave our fate to some political barf bag. Not anymore. If this is not clear by now then we have lost long ago and have continued on with some false hope for decades and look where that has got us.

[Ernesto]

8. DON'T GIVE UP! nt

[Lorien]

9. Kick. It's important. nt