The future is now, and it don't like you.
January 22nd, 2010
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This is one of those things that simply stops me, and makes me do a double take. How is it that corporations now can give as much money as they want to buy into elections? When these restrictions were first put into place at the turn of the last century, it was for a goddamn good reason. And yet, the Republican cheerleaders aren't seeing this as a problem in the slightest.
These short-sighted fuckwits are out of their minds. Sure, in the short term it's going to help them and their causes, but what about down the line? In time, these companies are going to hold so much sway over who gets to serve in what office that they aren't going to give a shit if it's a Republican or Democrat candidate - only that he toes the corporate line. You wait.
This may seem minor now, but in say ten years' time, when nobody can get elected without serious corporate support, then what? Does the government stop giving its congressmen and senators a salary, since the goons are already bought and sold? Do we get to see commercials for Senator Boner, brought to you by GE? Where does it end? Once you let the people who own everything control everything, the end is nigh.
It's funny really. More and more I find this country is slipping further and further out of reality, and more into a bad dystopian science fiction future. I suppose it's just a matter of time until we have megacorps ruling the place, doing whatever they want to whoever they want with little worry of repercussion - at least, until their actions get in the way of another megacorp - at which point we see corporate warfare!
After all, when they own the government, what's to stop corporations from doing anything they goddamn please. Give it a decade, and you'll see these fuckers start to rearrange the laws to suit them - and only them. Our Republican Supreme Court has given the corporations of America - many of which are not even owned by Americans - the keys to the store. Do you really think they give a shit about the people that live here?
Or just their own bottom line?