Ever since the Supreme Court decision yesterday, granting 1st amendment human rights of speech also to corporations, it became legal for them to buy a congressperson, a senator or a President directly from their treasuries, in other words, buy the country.
Those in the know, now realize that the tremendous wealth of these corporations enables them to 'speak' by purchasing those legislators they want to do their bidding. Also foreign corporations will apparently be granted this right as well, so foreigners will also have a say in whom is elected to Congress and who is not - the best 'democracy' any one's money can buy.
Well, the thought occurred to me that this abuse and attack on the democratic process is the logical 'sowing and reaping' that is long overdue for the centuries of denial of democracy and human rights to black slaves and others non-whites, which started before the founding of this country right up until the 1960s. It's perhaps poetic justice that democracy is now officially for sale just as slaves were also for sale - "...what you have sown, you shall surely also reap.."
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