'The biggest battle for the survival of American democracy is before us now,' writes Thom_Hartmann
to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.” [As the Declaration of Independence says: “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”
Then-retired President Jefferson laid out in an 1816 letter to Samuel Kerchival what today would be considered a blistering attack on corporate power: The “conservatives” on the Court first ruled that billionaires buying politicians was “free speech” instead of “bribery” .They then unleashed corporate power, ruling that corporations are “persons” with “rights” under the Bill of Rights, including the “free speech” and “assembly” rights to “petition the government” and financially support politicians ., “Corporations are people, my friend.
“Politicians who fear that a certain corporation can make or break their reelection chances may be cowed into silence about that corporation.”
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