GOP/TeaParty want Supreme Court to side with Corporate Dominance over this nation and

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its government.

Most Democrats want Supreme Court to side with the people and their right to a citizen-controlled government.

Corporate dominance is winning...the Fascist agenda is winning...Roberts and Alito are seeing to that.

The TeaParty folks CLAIM they are for the CITIZEN and the INDIVIDUAL, but, they are the first to side with corporate rule over their life and ALL our lives. Every time.

Easily led tools of the corporate media who spend big bucks on glib entertainers like Beck, Rush, at al, to keep the easily led....led.



Dumbasses have been participating in the deathmarch of this nation.



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[Dawson Leery]

1. K/R

Do not vote for Republicans.

[Angry Dragon]

2. When the tea baggers wake up from their dreams

into a corporate country and find they have no rights
they will wonder how the democrats could screw them like this.
They will never see themselves as pawns and just ignorant people.

[Winterblues]

3. They will blame Democrats for it and they won't be that far off.

Democrats have a Super Majority in both houses and they control the Whitehouse and yet it is still going to happen.. Explain that...

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5. That is exactly what I fear. The few ubercorpDems tilt the balance HEAVILY to GOP's fascist agenda

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[NoNothing]

4. People fear what they do not know

I've been pondering this and I think a lot of it can be boiled down to fear. Corporations are powerful, no question. The government is also powerful. Why do conservatives fear the government so much more than the corporations?

I propose that it is because they at least understand corporations. Corporations can be mind-boggling complex in operation, but their overriding goals are extremely simple to understand: profit. In trying to figure out what a corporation will do, all you have to do is figure out what is most profitable and you will be right almost every time. They are obvious, and even when they work against you, you know very clearly <i>why</i> they are working against you.

Government, on the other hand, is far more subtle. What is the overarching motivation of government? There really isn't one, it's some combination of public interest, private interest, and path-dependency. Is it easy to understand why government does almost everything it does? No, different parts of government do different things for different (sometimes secret) reasons, trying to achieve different (sometimes contradictory) goals. In short, it takes a lot of work and critical thinking to have a good grasp of the government's behavior.

Finally, the third observation: people almost always tend to prefer the devil they know. Fear of the unknown is one of the greatest constants in human history, transcending time and geography. Our very Declaration notes:

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

This is not necessarily, I think, a hallmark of dumbassery; rather, it is the human condition, and perhaps understandable: to really understand the subtleties of a modern nation-state requires serious effort and education. But it does suggest certain courses of action; namely, education, oversight, and above all, scrupulous transparency.

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7. dumbass is unkind....especially knowing the role corpmedia has played in conditioning these folks

to behave in this manner.

Open and accountable government is a complete unknown to them because they've never had it, so they accept that government is closed to them and open only to corporate interests and the powerful elite.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. The GOP and Tea Party support the rights of the individaul

The GOP and Tea Party support the rights of the individual
artificial person to oppress actual flesh-and-blood citizens.

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8. now I get it.... had to put on my reading glasses for the small print

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[Jack Rabbit]

9. Always read the fine print

Any corporate shyster will tell you that as soon as he has you by the balls.