Will it be "We the People" or "We the Corporations"?

By GottaLaff

Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash, courtesy of my pal, Mark Karlin:

[...] [A] good place to start would be with the legal enshrinement in the late 1800s of a concept called "corporate personhood." In essence, this means a business institution has the same -- indeed, currently enhanced -- legal rights as individual American citizens.

Thom Hartmann outlined this brilliantly in his under-appreciated book of a few years back, "Unequal Protection."

As noted in a description of "Unequal Protection":

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As a result, the largest transnational corporations fill a role today that has historically been filled by kings. They control most of the world's wealth and exert power over the lives of most of the world's citizens. Their CEOs are unapproachable and live lives of nearly unimaginable wealth and luxury. They've become the rudder that steers the ship of much human experience, and they're steering it by their prime value--growth and profit and any expense--a value that has become destructive for life on Earth. This new feudalism was not what our Founders--Federalists and Democratic Republicans alike--envisioned for America.

[...] Backed with huge war chests and legal funds, corporations are actually able to fix the system to where they have greater legal rights and legislative impact than people.

[...] It's very abstract for most people to get their arms around this concept, but we are going to have to choose between the interests of corporations and the interests of the American people. [...]

Will it be "We the People" or "We the Corporations"?

You can read the rest here.

I've heard Thom Hartmann on this topic many times. Thank you, Mark Karlin, for writing this one and bringing attention to Hartmann's wonderful work.