Democracy takes a death blow

With the Supreme Court decision to allow unlimited advertising by corporations for political candidates, there will no longer be any possibility of a candidate running for office who does not bow to the will of dominant corporate America.  With no candidate visible who speaks for the people, there will, in truth, be no choice to make, and therefore no reason to vote.  The Congress, the Senate, the President, and all elected Judges will become corporate whores.  They will be totally deaf to public needs, or wishes.

The reason is simple.  Once corporations control the information that is available to voters by blanketing the media with ads for their own whores, the little guy, the populist, or the progressive will be drowned out, and quickly "swift boated" out of the running.  Corporations like Enron can outspend any non-Enron politician by a factor of 90 to one in advertising.  The little guy doesn't have a chance.

What can we expect?  Health care will only be available to the rich.  Massive unlimited environmental destruction and polution without restriction.  An internet where insipid advertising and corporate propaganda are pushed in your face, while low budget, "unapproved" sites will be censored or slowed to painful loading speeds.  Television will be absent any real debate about issues important to corporate management. The media will packed with baby food-like stories, and local intrest glam. Corporations will be identified by the political campaigns that they promote.  High level company management meetings will wrangle about which politicians can be bought for their special interest, and which are haggling for more money with the threat of voting with the competition.  Protests will be dealt with like Iran deals with them.  Threaten these corporations, and they will kill you.  As for women's rights, think 1940s.  Any sector of the population that can be super exploited will be.  The same goes for minorities.

It is time to begin to stockpile weapons, and form up behind reliable leadership.  I predict that hatred, and resentment for this corporate control will build to the point of violence.  Take away even the vail of democracy, and people get pissed.  A corporatist state, along with repressive nationalist dictators is the basic formula for fascism.