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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders speaks from an ice cream podium and Twitter erupts [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)Michael Moore used production companies to make his anti-corporation docs, Jon Stewart and Colbert were on the Comedy Central's Daily Show owned by a massive corporation, Maher and Oliver on HBO.. etc. etc.
Corporations aren't evil. They are typically amoral, but Ben and Jerry's champion's progressive causes. He's not holding hands with the devil here. He's not out there saying don't buy from corporations, or that we need to do away with corporations either. This is some strange straw-manning of what he's been saying. He's saying that we can't trust corporations to do the right thing. We must regulate them. We must not simply ask them to let us regulate them. He's also saying that when corporations support the campaigns of public servants with money, that is a problem.
There may be exceptions, which I'm sure he would note, but typically corporations have a bottom line and that drives their decision-making.
I have no fucking clue what you're talking about regarding free speech. Who is curtailing it for who? Who is saying that corporations shouldn't champion causes? When a company is on the right side of something, I have no qualms about giving that company props.
What I have, is a problem with corporate money going to Washington. That isn't free speech. That is something altogether different.