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vlyons

(10,252 posts)
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 03:16 PM Sep 2020

Citizens United has got to go!

Not much will change until we pass a constitutional amendment to eliminate the dark money from elections. Did you know that Canada doesn't allow corporations to make campaign contributions, because corporations are not people!

Right now it is Wall St and Fossil Fuels that own and operate the Republican party. It's not the MAGAt Trumpsters who scare me. They are all just useful idiots, who respond emotionally to the culture war, and who the 1%ers manage to enrage over guns and Jesus.

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Citizens United has got to go! (Original Post) vlyons Sep 2020 OP
Corporate personhood has to go. Then a lot of bad rulings would also go. CrispyQ Sep 2020 #1

CrispyQ

(36,231 posts)
1. Corporate personhood has to go. Then a lot of bad rulings would also go.
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 03:24 PM
Sep 2020

The founders never meant for corporations to have Constitutional rights like We the People have. I had social studies, civics, and American problems in school and we were never taught about corporate personhood. I learned about it from a letter to the editor in the newspaper many, many years ago. Here's a good primer on corporate personhood for anyone who don't know about it.

Meet the Corporation - The Sierra Club

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