Supreme Court Corporate Coup

I care about politics.  I enjoy a good debate.  But things have changed since the supreme court decision to allow unlimited corporate money to be channeled into political advertising. 

With this decision, it is likely that Obama will be the last of the democratically elected Presidents.  There will be no need for two parties.  In fact, no candidate need enter any race without strong corporate backing.   You can vote for Tweedle Dee, or Tweedle Dum.  Take your pick.  Either way you vote for big business.

Instead of democracy America may end up with something like the "democracy" that we suffer in every large company workplace.  It clearly isn't democracy.  Decisions are made from the top for monetary reasons only.

Imagine a candidate wanting to run for President, or Senate, or even Judge who strongly supports curbs on greenhouse gases, or  health reform, or bank reform.  These industries can launch millions, even billions of dollars of slick advertising to absolutely confuse, misrepresent, and overwhelm the public.  The little guy will not get even a minute.  Even Unions will get swamped by the massive budgets that private industry can martial.

A citizen's vote will become a sick joke.  The only candidates on the docket will be pre-selected by big business.  No person can run for office unless he or she has the "blessing" of the corporate masters.   And it means that politicians must obey the businesses that "sponsor" them.


Even scarier is the future.  Once the corporate take over is in place, there will be no chance of reversing it.  There will no one in power who can speak for the people.  No one.


I have been reading about the building blocks of fascism.  Corporatism is the foundation.  Add to that a charismatic, nationalist demigod like Hitler, or Mussolini, and you have the formula for world wide catastrophe.  It is not hard to imagine. 

What if the poor little U.S. was getting beat out of all the best goodies, and influence in the world by mean old China, Russia, or the European Union.  This could set the stage for the emergence of an ultra-nationalist "savior" playing to peoples' lowest instincts, and paranoia.  There would be no real democratic process in place to stop it.


I think that resistance will emerge fairly quickly.  Unfortunately, those in power will not give up their power peacefully.  The American people are going to have to fight for it.  Remember, the Dred-Scott decision sparked the first American Civil War.  It looks like there is another one on the horizon.