2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDoes anyone deny that our elections have become for-profit corporations
Our politicians are for-profit institutions, are elections are for-profit corporations where does democracy fit in?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)"For profit corporation" has a definition, and our elections do not meet it.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Or does "for profit corporation" simply mean "bad" in DU-ese now?
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Still not seeing it. Who maintains fiduciary responsibility for them? What charter restricts equity holders' liability? Where is their constructive personhood declared? When and how do the equity holders select the officers?
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)our entire system is bought and paid for on both sides of the aisle, and now with Citizens United it is just a subsidiary of Koch/Rove, Inc. and their ilk. Bribes gong on in full view, while politicians go on TV and with a straight face tell us things like "Well, I don't know, that's what they offered!" with a coy affect, which made for a great laugh line but a painfully blunt political statement indeed. So that's where I'm at. Cannot under any circumstances go there. Not unless those transcripts vindicate her. Before the primary is over, not after. After I will not have had a chance at an honest evaluation, and that withholding affects ME personally.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)At the very least, can't we move to have the politicians wear the labels of the swine who bought them out?
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)What they do about it is another thing.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid