Reply #4: We should not have allowed corporate personhood.

[CrispyQ]

The first thing that needs to be done is to put corporations back in their proper place! Corporate personhood needs to be revoked. Unfortunately, I doubt it will ever happen. Too few people even know what corporate personhood is & the corporations have masses of money which translates into influence in government.

Keith Olbermann recently stated, "Corporate America controls the media and we get manufactured news. Corporate America now controls the voting machines and we get manufactured elections."

And consider what else they control: food, energy, health care (or lack of) & soon, water. Meanwhile we stick our heads in the sand regarding climate change & peak oil. The people are more concerned with what hours the shopping mall is open. We can only hope the sheeple will wake up before it is too late.

In the future, I will only vote for a party that addresses this issue its their platform. I agree with your assessment: it will take decades to undo the damage that has been done, if it can be. I am not hopeful.

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/

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Our Bill of Rights was the result of tremendous efforts to institutionalize and protect the rights of human beings. It strengthened the premise of our Constitution: that the people are the root of all power and authority for government. This vision has made our Constitution and government a model emulated in many nations.

But corporate lawyers (acting as both attorneys and judges) subverted our Bill of Rights in the late 1800's by establishing the doctrine of "corporate personhood" -- the claim that corporations were intended to fully enjoy the legal status and protections created for human beings.

We believe that corporations are not persons and possess only the privileges we willfully grant them. Granting corporations the status of legal "persons" effectively rewrites the Constitution to serve corporate interests as though they were human interests. Ultimately, the doctrine of granting constitutional rights to corporations gives a thing illegitimate privilege and power that undermines our freedom and authority as citizens. While corporations are setting the agenda on issues in our Congress and courts, We the People are not; for we can never speak as loudly with our own voices as corporations can with the unlimited amplification of money.