Weekend Open Thread → Citizens United: Citizenship Destruction.

The damage to America from Citizens United ruling is becoming more obvious.

Corporations are not people. The people working for them already have the right to individually vote as US citizens.

What this ruling does allow is corporations to become power brokers between international interests and candidates. The ruling undercuts US citizenship by allowing non-US citizens abroad to directly participate in American elections "vote with dollars".

If you believe removing election fraud is important "non-citizens" voting. Then you should be very concerned about this bad Supreme Court ruling.

The funny thing is, if you looked objectively at a corporation and evaluated it psychologically as if it were a human being, it would meet the criteria for sociopathy.

Sane civilzations keep sociopaths away from positions of power. But I guess that's not us anymore.

Yeah, corporations as people...Crazy!

If they could be imprisoned for crimes, I'd consider it.

Clearly, in order for that to have effect they would need to have the same repercussions as 'normal people' (at least, as normal as our society is).

None of this silly slap-on-the-wrist stuff, either.

If corporations can be taxed, why shouldn't they be able to donate money to political causes that are in their interests? You can't have it both ways. If they aren't treated like people they shouldn't be taxed like people. After all, "the people working for them" already pay taxes.