Which Power/Influence Is a Greater Threat To You and the Country?

[mondo joe]

[Vincardog]

1. If by Corporations you mean the rapid unchecked growth in Corporate political power

and the way they are realigning our country to work against the people of the country to force the wealth to the rich and powerful. You know FASCISM.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. the corporate heads who coerce the right to vote against their basic self interest

its really quite frustrating to see poor people vote for republicans because of some manufactured hatred against gays/women/'minorities.

[Selatius]

3. Corporations. The religious extremists are little more than right-authoritarians.

Right-authoritarians exist in every country; that appears to be the case to me, anyway. The only question is how much power do they have, and most of that power is being granted to them by corporations using them to give an air of moral legitimacy to their corporate policies.

Corporations? They're in a whole new class of power comparatively speaking. They are large enough to be their own economies, and they have more than enough money to influence elections and control the news media. True, a corporate entity cannot donate to any federal campaign, but corporate executives and managers can and do, and those executives are free to establish 527s and spend unlimited amounts of money attacking people they don't like.

[PDJane]

4. Both..........

They tend to amplify one another.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Corporations bring some good things to the table: employment, services, products,

investment opportunities, research/development of new technologies. Religious Right: Nothing good there. Nothing.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

6. Those who pander to both to achieve power ---> the neocons. eom

[peacetalksforall]

7. When we talk about them, I think we need to separate the media.

I don't think you could have created a separate line for media because the media is the corporation. We should highlight the media every day. History will show (with our help) that the media was the most single devestating operation to end democracy as we knew it.

Let it be known that they were bought out by Republicans and used to the never ending benefit of the Republican Party - abandoning all virtues of what journalism is supposed to be. Let it be known that while they aided the Republican Party to pound the concept of democracy, they were traitors to the citizens.