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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHightower: GOP Error Reveals Secret Corporate Donors
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/hightower-gop-error-reveals-secret-corporate-donorsSome people have a myriad of recurring nightmares about being publicly embarrassed, such as rising to give a speech and realizing you know nothing about the topic -- then realizing you're naked.
You might be surprised to learn though, that corporations also have such nightmares. OK, corporations aren't really people, no matter what the Supreme Court fabulists claim, so they can't dream, but their top executives can, and several recently suffered the same chilling hallucination. Only, it wasn't a dream ... it was real.
Perhaps you think that corporations use their campaign donations to buy privileged access to state and national policymakers. Perhaps you even think that their political money actually buys those politicians -- after all, they do deliver the public policies the corporate donors want. Perhaps you think this whole monetized political system is corrupt, anti-democratic, and ... well, stinky.
You would, of course, be right about all of the above. As Lily Tomlin has put it, "No matter how cynical you get, it's almost impossible to keep up."
The corporate purchase of Washington is pretty widely reported, but -- keep up now -- for the kleptocratic stinkiness fast consuming our statehouses as well. The Republican Governors Association has devised a layaway purchase plan allowing brand-name corporations to make secret donations of $100,000 or more a year to the RGA in support of the corporate-friendly agenda of various GOP governors. And a lot of execs have been buying.
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Hightower: GOP Error Reveals Secret Corporate Donors (Original Post)
xchrom
Oct 2014
OP
Yes I totally agree. All the advancements made in civil rights and civil liberties can be
rhett o rick
Oct 2014
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mopinko
(70,111 posts)1. actually, lily tomlin (jane wagner, really) said
i get more and more cynical the older i get, but it's never enough to keep up.
mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)2. Well, all this may have happened,
but it's not true until the chief justice is paid to say it's true..
valerief
(53,235 posts)4. Bwahahaha! You got that right!
daleanime
(17,796 posts)3. K&R....
Until we address the controlling influence of money, we won't be able to make any real headway with any of the problems facing us.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)7. Yes I totally agree. All the advancements made in civil rights and civil liberties can be
wiped out by a hostile government bought by the oligarchs.
malaise
(269,005 posts)5. Sadly for them citizens are catching on
to the looting of the state and pension funds by these reTHUGs.
Expect a wipe out among their governors come election day.
ellenfl
(8,660 posts)6. from your lips to voters' ears. eom