Why does President Obama keep Appointing Monsanto Shills to Key Gov. Positions?

[davidthegnome]

100. It's not just Obama

and certainly not just Monsanto. The corporations and their lobbyists have been the real people in charge for many, many years. Obama isn't really so different from previous Presidents in this regard - he has no magic wand he can wave, he can't cut the corporate influence or corporate wealth out of politics. He did oppose Citizens United though, which gave the corporate types a great deal more power.

The corporate power, the plutocracy, groups like Monsanto who fail to understand or even pretend to understand the meaning of ethics... it's going to take a hell of a lot more than one President to throw these shmucks out. We have to do it ourselves. The rant of the above article points plenty of fingers and places plenty of blame... but the reality is that it's on us. The American voters. We need to start voting for candidates who are strongly anti-corporate, we need to find a way to promote and even enforce campaign finance reform. We have to cure the corruption ourselves, Obama not only won't do it - he can't. Do you know what it costs to enter the primaries? How much did Mitt Romney spend? How much did the super pacs spend in the last election? It's sick, but it's the reality. Monsanto's power and influence continues to grow because we allow it to. Because we don't smack down the supreme court when they pass legislation in favor of corporations over human beings.

I suspect that it will require things to get a whole hell of a lot worse before the majority of us care enough to get up and do something.

I hate Monsanto as much as anyone else, but this shit isn't Obama's fault. It's ours.