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(32,139 posts)We cannot AFFORD more corporate rule. America is being murdered right now with the corporate policies that continue to be expanded every day in this country. The corporatists who run our government now are not just protecting a status quo. They are busily and systematically removing every single avenue we have left to fight against the corporate takeover of this country and the selling out of our lives and futures.
I want to repeat that. They, like the administration before them, have systematically been removing every single avenue the people have left to fight back against the corporate looting of our lives and our futures. They are dismantling our right to privacy, our free press, our right to assemble and protest, our national sovereignty in trade and regulatory policy, our protections for journalists and whistleblowers... And today they signaled that they will not defend net neutrality.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4484820
With this next massive betrayal, we lose control of the internet...and the corporations gain the means to control our access to information and freedom of association. Look at the wasteland of cable TV. This is NOT just about costs. This is about control of information and communication. The free and open internet was perhaps our last hope for organizing and educating to take back our country from corporate fascism.
This administration has not just maintained the status quo. It has been consistent and aggressive in its work on behalf of corporations and against the interests of ordinary Americans. A Clinton administration would continue this aggressive dismantling of a democratic system that this nation already may not survive. We cannot afford to continue this malignant transformation of the United States of American into a corporate, authoritarian nightmare.