Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Corporate Control of Our Democracy: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Corporate Control of Our Democracy: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

by Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz from The Huffington Post.

Articles like this offer some understanding of corporate power, but provide little understanding of how degraded the so-called democratic system is in the US. Of course, liberal websites such as this have no interest in thoroughly understanding the warped US governing system because they have no interest in any fundamental change.