Consumers

[Luminous Animal]

[Luminous Animal]

1. That is what we are regularly categorized. I prefer "citizens".

[Javaman]

5. Once upon a time we were referred to as Citizens...

but then corporations were allowed to control everything so now we are consumers.

Once we reestablish our rightly named moniker, then and only will we have our country back in the hands of CITIZENS.

Cheers!

[Luminous Animal]

6. Cheers to you too, Citizen!

[Name removed]

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[WildNovember]

3. Is this spam?

[Luminous Animal]

4. Probably. Unless you like Josephtony's photo. Then it is an opportunity.

[eridani]

7. I don't like "customer" or "taxpayer" either

“Customer and consumer are not the only words being used to change the nature of citizenship. The word taxpayer now regularly holds the place which in a true democracy would be occupied by citizen. Taxpayers bear a dual relationship to government, neither half of which has anything at all to do with democracy. Taxpayers pay tribute to the government and they receive services from it. So does every subject of a totalitarian regime. What taxpayers do not do, and what people who call themselves taxpayers have long since stopped even imagining themselves doing, is governing.”

Daniel Kemmis, former mayor of Missoula, Montana