Last post we spoke about how money is becoming more and more important in American politics to the point where you have to be filthy stinking rich to even consider running for or holding any kind of state or national office. Well it’s even worse than that.
Some months ago the United States Supreme Court reversed years of policy and declared that corporations are now free to exercise the same rights as individuals when it comes to financing and funding political campaigns. As if the corporate money interests in our country don’t have enough power already. But the real question is, why should we care if big business can spend as much as it wants to buy candidates and influence their votes? Isn’t money from rich corporations just the same as money from rich people?
Personally, I don’t think so. People, no matter how money and success oriented they are have some sort of humanity at their core. They can feel the needs and emotion of others, their highs, their lows, their joys, their sorrows. They know in the hearts what is right and what is wrong. And whether they act on these human feelings and interactions or not, at least the neural connections are there if they want to use them. That’s what makes us human and differentiates us from machines, robots, and corporations.
Corporations exist for one reason and one reason only, to make money. While a human may have the drive to succeed and make it financially, and while they may donate to causes and/or candidates for monetary gain, there’s also the chance they may have additional motivations and might donate to certain causes and/or candidates for humanitarian reasons as well. Can’t expect that from corporations.
Sure, people run the corporations. But although these people in charge might display humanity in their personal lives, while wearing their corporate hats, it’s all about finding which candidate will sell their soul for the good of the corporate coffers. Corporate executives working for oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance companies are especially good at this. And when all the corporations get really good at this then what we have suspected all along will have come true, and money will replace freedom, liberty, and justice as America’s highest goals. It will indeed be the end of our nation as it was intended to be.
In a spoof of this, the Murray Hill Corporation, a PR firm from Silver Springs, Md. that apparently has some liberal minded executives and is opposed to the Supreme Court decision, has taken it up a notch in a very clever, if very cynical way. Murray Hill Corp. is running for office. Yup. Why waste time and money buying politicians when you can be a politician yourself. Their slogan, “Vote for Murray Hill Corp. for Congress – for the best democracy money can buy.”
It is definitely times like these when we need to touch base with our higher consciousness, Unlike the corporations, at least we have one.
peace………………….ag
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