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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on October 14, 2016 at 12:35pm

Look at who the corporations favor with donations on any given election or election cycle and there is a 95% that person's "political soul" is already been bought. Even those corporate donations to a community though seemingly innocent and for a need, often hides a future payback requirement to another. It is like a bank selling your mortgage, you never know who you may owe.

We ventured to this nation seeking freedoms as people wishing to live in peace. Unfortunately Corruption preceded us on the ships of Columbus. As we broke the bonds of colonialism under the European nations as a people, the ravages by corporations was well established, and the division of lands by the elitists seeking authority over all was well under way. To keep the peace between the two, and the citizenry in peaceful check, Government was again established, modified, twisted and corrupted to suit the needs of the warring factions under the guise of serving the people........ Corporate People and Elite People, not the working people they obtained status or wealth or both from as they secretly enslaved either openly by race, or creed or lot in life.

Now here we are, with all the corruption brought to light as they seek to remove our last measures of protection. Freedom of speech via an honest media and our guns by which to defend ourselves from the Thugs of government. Political Parties are nothing more than Gangs with ultimate legal justification and power. They if allowed can turn us on each other and have done so over the history of this nation.  

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on October 14, 2016 at 11:50am

Without question, the corporations have bought the politicians and everyone else they need. And they needn't buy everybody - just the leadership who then have the power to execute the corporate request. And they may buy a key individual here and there at a committee, a regulator, an agency, etc. And the very first time one of these parties takes the bribe, then they are owned for life via blackmail. The government official is now in the quicksand. In addition to the corporations writing the laws they need, they also create rules and regulations so complicated and with such huge breadth, that only deep pocketed and heavily staffed corporations can keep up with the law. It's arguably a form of restraint of trade as smaller competition may lack the scale to be compliant. Many times the corporations don't have to look too hard to find the willing traitors in government as the traitors come to them. Author Peter Schweizer has documented that politicians will threaten to pass bills that will harm a corporation/industry and the next thing that happens is the lawmaker is descended upon by the corporation's bag men and, presto, everything is good - the bill goes away.

The corporations are charged with one thing and one thing only - maximizing their gains. So aside from their many illegal and immoral tactics, they cannot be blamed as much as the lawmakers who are elected to represent the people. Equally guilty are all other groups who should be looking out for the people but instead of doing this, they put themselves up for sale and rent to the corporations, and they then most certainly sell out. It is nothing but betrayal. Finally I will say that topping things off is that the traitors mistake their dishonesty for intelligence and pat themselves on the back for how smart they are. They say one thing to the people and in private they laugh at us. But they do underestimate us as their thinking is warped by their greed. Ultimately they may come to their senses and try to redeem themselves but historically such a change of heart requires the slamming of a jail gate or the approach of a pitchfork.