Democracy
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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If the Republicans win this election it will be a corporate takeover of Democracy. From the public's standpoint we have to ask what kind of society we create when we put for-profit corporations in charge of the very muscle of our society. Therefore, the institutions that define who we are, that bind us together, and that enable us to survive and live securely. Republicans and big business have no capacity to value political systems. The only legitimate question for a corporation is whether a political system serves or impedes its self-interested purposes.
We live in a society where a democracy is disposable. It is in the corporations make-up to remove obstacles that get in its way. The democratic process, such as regulations that limit their freedom to exploit people and the natural environment, are such obstacles. The Republican Party seems to be like a dynamic doom machine that does not take into account the concerns of flesh-and-blood human people who form the world in which it exists. In their search for wealth and for prosperity, they have created a monster that's going to destroy our society and the democracy which holds it together.
Our government and the democracy it is supposed to protect threaten the capitalist system and undermine the corporation's mission. One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power. Whether through lobbying, political donations, or public relations campaigns, corporations via the Republican Party seek to influence the democratic process. They want to ensure that the democratic process does not restrict their freedoms and frustrate their self-interested missions.
Deregulation is really a form of de-democratization, as it denies the people acting through their democratic representatives in government, the only official political vehicle they currently have to control corporate behavior. Corporations are not democratic institutions - their directors and managers owe no accountability to anyone but the shareholders that employ them. Will capitalism eventually hang itself on its own excesses? Corporate rule must be challenged in order to revive the values and practices it contradicts: democracy, social justice, equality and compassion.
Physicians applaud when their portfolios rise in value, yet wonder why insurance companies are ruthlessly holding down medical payments. Employers cheer when their 401(K) plans post gains, yet wonder why layoffs are decimating their firms. Their own portfolios hold the answers. Social programs and economic regulations are created to protect citizens from neglect by the market and from exploitation by corporations. It seems that many in our society are to busy building investment portfolios instead of social character, or social movements.
Again, if Republicans win this election it will be a corporate takeover of Democracy.
Bennie Hively
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
If the Republicans win this election it will be a corporate takeover of Democracy. From the public's standpoint we have to ask what kind of society we create when we put for-profit corporations in charge of the very muscle of our society. Therefore, the institutions that define who we are, that bind us together, and that enable us to survive and live securely. Republicans and big business have no capacity to value political systems. The only legitimate question for a corporation is whether a political system serves or impedes its self-interested purposes.
We live in a society where a democracy is disposable. It is in the corporations make-up to remove obstacles that get in its way. The democratic process, such as regulations that limit their freedom to exploit people and the natural environment, are such obstacles. The Republican Party seems to be like a dynamic doom machine that does not take into account the concerns of flesh-and-blood human people who form the world in which it exists. In their search for wealth and for prosperity, they have created a monster that's going to destroy our society and the democracy which holds it together.
Our government and the democracy it is supposed to protect threaten the capitalist system and undermine the corporation's mission. One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power. Whether through lobbying, political donations, or public relations campaigns, corporations via the Republican Party seek to influence the democratic process. They want to ensure that the democratic process does not restrict their freedoms and frustrate their self-interested missions.
Deregulation is really a form of de-democratization, as it denies the people acting through their democratic representatives in government, the only official political vehicle they currently have to control corporate behavior. Corporations are not democratic institutions - their directors and managers owe no accountability to anyone but the shareholders that employ them. Will capitalism eventually hang itself on its own excesses? Corporate rule must be challenged in order to revive the values and practices it contradicts: democracy, social justice, equality and compassion.
Physicians applaud when their portfolios rise in value, yet wonder why insurance companies are ruthlessly holding down medical payments. Employers cheer when their 401(K) plans post gains, yet wonder why layoffs are decimating their firms. Their own portfolios hold the answers. Social programs and economic regulations are created to protect citizens from neglect by the market and from exploitation by corporations. It seems that many in our society are to busy building investment portfolios instead of social character, or social movements.
Again, if Republicans win this election it will be a corporate takeover of Democracy.
Bennie Hively
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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