I partially agree with SHF abian, but then we never hear all the stories of what's happening. Couple that with every time the wealthn ty come out on top they seem to gain strength and momentum and are more determined. However, they also underestimate the people, who are rising up worldwide to push back and this is something we've never seen. We now have the technology to communited with people globally and that only strengthens us. We will prevail.
Eventually. I just don't think this generation has what it takes to actually pull democracy from the claws of corporate powers. This isn't the first time in our history that the richest few had gained such power over govt.; before, the poor and middle classes always united to push back, to the benefit of both. Not this time. Middle class America had completley turned its back on the poor, so any push against the rich lacks the strength to accomplish much. The rich are now doing to the middle class what the middle class did to the poor.
It is encouraging to see so much pushback at the local and state levels against Citizens United and the kind of thinking it represents. However, I still had to vote "no" above. At the federal level, government is owned by the corporations, and most Democrats have shown themselves just as locked in as nearly all Republicans. Even if, by some unimaginable miracle, Democrats ever have the White House and both houses of Congress again--a meaningless concept anyway, as the Republicans' 41% majority in the Senate has shown--Citizens United will never be overturned.
Corporations are people forever. People are people only if they're in the one percent.
All this Citizen's United bill does is create a cold war political propaganda spending race.The only beneficiaries of all this money are the media outlets.Every year, more and more money will be wasted on these campaigns.It's time for publicly financed elections.The Tories in Canada have kneecapped the competion by eliminating the per vote subsidy, while they get billions in corporate donations.
I partially agree with SHF abian, but then we never hear all the stories of what's happening. Couple that with every time the wealthn ty come out on top they seem to gain strength and momentum and are more determined. However, they also underestimate the people, who are rising up worldwide to push back and this is something we've never seen. We now have the technology to communited with people globally and that only strengthens us. We will prevail.
Eventually. I just don't think this generation has what it takes to actually pull democracy from the claws of corporate powers. This isn't the first time in our history that the richest few had gained such power over govt.; before, the poor and middle classes always united to push back, to the benefit of both. Not this time. Middle class America had completley turned its back on the poor, so any push against the rich lacks the strength to accomplish much. The rich are now doing to the middle class what the middle class did to the poor.
It is encouraging to see so much pushback at the local and state levels against Citizens United and the kind of thinking it represents. However, I still had to vote "no" above. At the federal level, government is owned by the corporations, and most Democrats have shown themselves just as locked in as nearly all Republicans. Even if, by some unimaginable miracle, Democrats ever have the White House and both houses of Congress again--a meaningless concept anyway, as the Republicans' 41% majority in the Senate has shown--Citizens United will never be overturned.
Corporations are people forever. People are people only if they're in the one percent.
All this Citizen's United bill does is create a cold war political propaganda spending race.The only beneficiaries of all this money are the media outlets.Every year, more and more money will be wasted on these campaigns.It's time for publicly financed elections.The Tories in Canada have kneecapped the competion by eliminating the per vote subsidy, while they get billions in corporate donations.