What I believe

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32. I believe in American capitalism.

I don't know if that fits your definition of "biased towards corporations" or not.

I think "corporate personhood" has been established. Whether I like it or not is meaningless; I just work with what exists. I view corps as a collection of people all sharing a common interest in seeing the business succeed and make money. If it loses that focus, then is should suffer the consequences.

Why do corps feel the need to lobby and give contributions is what I ask myself? Because the same lawmakers than can help them can also hurt them. It's a bribe, and the lawmakers are just as guilty as the CEO's. The USA is the Roman Empire.

More directly to why I said what I said, I'm simply noting what I observe. Socially we're becoming more liberal, and economically we're becoming more conservative. Liberals want economic/social liberalism and conservatives want economic/social conservatism. Rather than piss off 1/2 the country totally, better to half-way piss off the whole country is how I think DC views it. At least that way everybody gets something. What would you rather have; economically liberal and socially conservative, or economically conservative and socially liberal? I think that's the trade-off.

I apologize in advance but I've got a lot on my plate today and may not even get to this until much later today, if at all.

And I sincerely hate you felt the need to say "I am truly interested in your responses to these questions; this is not a snark..." in your reply. Having only been here a short time, it seems people could just make inquiries like you and not feel like they had to don a flame suit before they do But having read the responses on some of these posts I understand why. For future reference, you don't have to do that with me.

Good Day!