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In reply to the discussion: We don't have governments anymore, we have corporations. Corporations run [View all]RKP5637
(67,008 posts)45. I've often pondered and wondered the same, and realize I don't have the slightest idea how it
will be changed / end. One thing I do know is the system as we know it today will not go on forever and ever ad infinitum.
However, I think most of us will be way long gone before serious change occurs. Money talks and has great power, the rest of us for the most part just talk. And that change could be far worse. Well, with genetically bred labor farms.
And in the big picture, we might actually see one day the battle of the corporations in open warfare of some type.
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RKP5637
Dec 2012
OP
Abe today would be kicked out of the R party as some F'en dirty ignorant backwoods hippie. n/t
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#56
And we have sooo much evidence of that right now! "... until wealth is aggregated in a few
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#41
Often I wonder, anymore, if there even is a dividing line between corporations and the two
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#59
Exactly!!! "And for these vultures, the United States appears to be their grand prize to obtain."
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#60
In the long run humanity will become extinct, given the current plan, in humanity's own garbage as
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#63
As someone mention in this thread, basically ... their prize is now the whole United States
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#64
I've often pondered and wondered the same, and realize I don't have the slightest idea how it
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#45
Yeah it would be an absolutely brilliant move to chase all the corporations to Asia and China.
dkf
Dec 2012
#19
The OP wants corporations here. There is no difficulty with the corporate model if
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#66
Do your "checks" enable a corporation to compete with corporations in other counties?
dkf
Dec 2012
#80
Of course, dfk. I'm not sure how you ever thought otherwise. In fact, I spent a
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#81
Quite well said, it's a transitional model and hopefully the really good congressmen will
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#67
Yes, these cycles have occurred over and over, as the one we are going through now. Hopefully the
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#68
The only solution is that there need be SOME body / organization that can be powerful enough...
AZ Progressive
Dec 2012
#27
One good aspect is I do think more Americans are becoming more aware that they can not sit
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#69
Yep, money is the leverage they employ. Money talks and has power, the rest of us mostly talk. If
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#71
As Earth has been become corporate. America has become it's middle managers.
raouldukelives
Dec 2012
#35
Sadly, I think your last sentence is unfortunately quite true ... they run not on facts but
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#73
Companies are making money hand over fist but we're suffering. What is wrong here?
Initech
Dec 2012
#39
I guess it's just the ultimate fulfillment of the American Dream (for some). ... but not
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#74
:Why not just skip the middlemen and elect boards of directors and CEOs.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2012
#44