The lead in your kid’s toys is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.

[omega minimo]

The lead in your kid’s toys is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The antibiotic in your milk is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The untreated pain in your tooth is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The crap on TV is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The e. coli in your frozen pizza is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The lead in your lipstick is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The toxic in your air freshener is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The poison in your pet’s food is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The cost of your healthcare is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The lack of your healthcare is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The professional liars on the “news” are the reason we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The replacement of your downtown with big box megacenters is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The sick building you work in is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The sweatshop labor in everything you buy is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The shred of power and refuge you feel in your gas guzzler is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The outsourcing of your job is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The single owner of your local newspaper/TV/radio stations is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The side effects of your medicine (if you can afford it) is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The lie that being patriotic means an obedient consumer buying more stuff is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The soldiers’ blood in your gas tank is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The seven hour wait trapped on the tarmac with no water or escape is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The mother/father/son/daughter/neighbor/teacher who never came back from the profiteers’ war is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The broken promises of the pension you worked decades for is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The theft of your social security money to give tax cuts to the rich and pay for their war is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The sameness of everything everywhere, the loss of culture, is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The cancer caused by the toxins they feed you, that they want to sell you drugs – drugs your taxpayer dollars created – to treat, is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The loss of rights you don’t even realize are gone is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.
The homeless you pass that are veterans of every war are the reason we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.


The candidate who is REALLY for “change” is the one who talks about the class war on the middle class and the poor; who isn’t afraid to point a finger at the corporations that rule your life every day and who plan to rule your government.



http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0122-10.htm

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It's called Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and his Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy (HarperCollins, 2004).

For the past couple of years, (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.)'s been giving 40 or so speeches a year, mostly in the red zone, mostly to conservative groups.

He speaks about the corporate attack on the country.

"There is no difference between the reaction I get from Republicans and Democrats, because Americans share the same values," Kennedy told us. "If you talk about these issues in terms of our national values, everybody understands it."

In the book, Kennedy implies that we live in a fascist country and that the Bush White House has learned key lessons from the Nazis.

"While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business," he writes. "My American Heritage Dictionary defines fascism as 'a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership together with belligerent nationalism.' Sound familiar?"

He quotes Hitler's propaganda chief Herman Goerring: "It is always simply a matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Kennedy then adds: "The White House has clearly grasped the lesson."

Kennedy also quotes Benito Mussolini's insight that "fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

"The biggest threat to American democracy is corporate power," Kennedy told us. "There is vogue in the White House to talk about the threat of big government. But since the beginning of our national history, our most visionary political leaders have warned the American public against the domination of government by corporate power. That warning is missing in the national debate right now. Because so much corporate money is going into politics, the Democratic Party itself has dropped the ball. They just quash discussion about the corrosive impact of excessive corporate power on American democracy."


Naomi Wolf: Ten Steps To Close Down An Open Society

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/ten-steps-to-close-down-a_b_46695.html

[dougolat]

1. corporate personhood

corporate personhood is a fiction, giving immortal
"persons", who are subject to hostile take-over if
they waste proffits by being good citizens or protecting
precious assets, and can bring power exceeding that of some
entire nations to bear on local elections. Great effort has
allowed some localities to limit their unfair advantages,
notably Humboldt County,CA, and a few places in Pennsylvania.
An excellent source is ReclaimDemocracy.org  where they note
that some states still have laws against corporations
influencing elections or harming the commons. Remember,
representative democracy is of the people, by the people, and
for the people. To the extent it becomes corporate, that's
fascism.

[MethuenProgressive]

18. "Lead paint , tooth aches, and e. coli are all Clinton's fault!"

You forgot eclipses, Dumbledore being gay, and tornados!
All Clinton's fault!!
:boring:

[ulysses]

2. happy to be rec #5.

[omega minimo]

3. Hey U

:toast:

[hfojvt]

4. but Hillary does talk about the middle class

when the media lets her quit talking about the war.

I am really hating this whole "change" theme that the front-runners seem to have adopted. The candidates give a sound-bite claiming to be the harbinger of "change" because change is always good. When people tell me that, I punch them in the nose. If they complain I ask "Are you afraid of change? You used to not have a bloody nose, then I changed that. Change is always good, right?

In other words, stop talking about "change" and promising "change" and talk more about the specifics of what changes you are proposing.


As far as whether we can support a corporatist, I think it is unavoidable. What I would like to avoid is the candidate who is the most corporatist, the most gung-ho corporatist, the one who uses the most pro-corporatist rhetoric and gets the most money from corporations.

[omega minimo]

5. that whole "any change is good" thing is why the Terminator is governor of Kollyfoneya!!

:thumbsup:


Great post hfojvt :spray: So, we're back to voting for lesser of evils? Lots of folks don't want the corporate media telling them the corporate candidate is a sure thing.

That either makes people so mad they vote or so mad they DON'T vote.

[MethuenProgressive]

6. You forgot toenail fungus. That's Hillay Clinton's fault too!!

"corporatist" is the stupidest meme concocted yet...

[TahitiNut]

12. Ignorance is curable.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BW2br9AGL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H13VHWD0L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[Swamp Rat]

15. I recommend a lobotomy.

:)

[JTFrog]

17. But Cognitive Dissonance

may not be.

I've never seen a group of democrats fight so hard for a candidate who runs on a platform of profit trumps health care, profit trumps domestic jobs and power trumps peace.

I know it took me too many years to start paying attention, but I'm wide awake now.

[Ignis]

21. Meme? Try "adjective."

I do not think this word means what you think it means...

[annabanana]

7. What a list!

We have to get the profit hounds out of the driver's seat.

[bvar22]

8. A-fuckin-Men

"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans. I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans, family farmers, and people who haven't felt the benefits of the economic upturn."---Paul Wellstone

[TahitiNut]

9. 20,000 dead in Bhopal is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.

http://www.bhopal.org/whathappened.html

[TahitiNut]

10. 10.8 million gallons of oil spilled is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill

[Initech]

11. Blackwater is why we cant support a corporatist candidate for president.

[CreekDog]

13. Apparently everything that is going on now won't change with a Democratic President

I don't buy that.

[Whisp]

14. it's already bought and paid for.

with blood and suffering.
the game will continue much the same.

[OneBlueSky]

16. those of us who've been on the planet for awhile are facing a real quandry . . .

my generation has pretty much seen and lived through it all -- the Kennedy and King and Lennon assassinations, the Nixon administration and Watergate, Reagan's "Me Generation," Clinton's support of NAFTA, the stolen "elections" of George Bush, and all the rest . . . and now we're faced with an upcoming election that will likely be between two more "lesser of two evil" corporatists who will, for the most part, continue the BushCo drive toward an exclusionary, fascist nation . . . and we're wondering what to do . . .

I will not vote for a Republican . . . but I will also not vote for a pseudo-Republican . . . I voted for a Clinton twice, and the ramifications of the corporatist economics he foisted on us just keep getting worse as more and more good American jobs offshore to India and a thousand other points . . . not a single candidate -- save possibly Dennis Kucinich -- will even talk about impeaching the most criminal administration in history, and none are addressing climate change and the environment for what they are -- the single most important issues in the history of humankind . . .

and given that there's a high probability that the 2008 election will again be decided by those counting the votes rather than those casting them, I may just sit home on Election Day . . . or maybe vote for a third party candidate . . . what I will NOT do is play this silly little game any longer . . . if the media and the establishment again present us with two quasi-fascists to choose from, count me out . . . I'll spend my time gardening (while I still can) and let you younger folks try to make sense of all this madness . . . I've spent decades trying to make a difference, and all I got for my efforts was encroaching corporate fascism and a bunch of stupid t-shirts . . .

I've had enough . . .

[MethuenProgressive]

19. Stargate SG1 being canceled is why we can’t support a corporatist candidate for president.

And the lilacs back behind my barn hardly bloomed at all this summer. Clinton's fault!!
:rofl:

[Deep13]

20. The one thing I know for certain about the next president...

...is that he or she will be corporation-friendly. I do not favor that, but what difference does that make?

[LSK]

22. which candidate made a fortune SUING Corporations for their negligence?

And spent a large portion of his career doing this?