What The Constitution Doesn’t Say
The radical right in American politics is often a jumble of mismatched cognitive dissonance. They claim that God hates gays and point to the book of Leviticus all while wearing mixed cloth garments eating shellfish. They proudly state that they are “Tenthers” all the while supporting warrant-less wiretapping of Americans that violates the fourth amendment. I was reminded of another seeming contradiction while listening to Howard Stern yesterday. He was making a comment on the SCOTUS decision that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts on attack ads against particular candidates during elections. They proudly proclaim that the decision is not about money but a victory for the first amendment. The basis for this being a first amendment issue in their eyes is the legal concept that a corporation has the same rights as a person.
Now it occurred to me that many of the same people making this argument are conservatives that are against health care reform legislation. They make the argument that the health care reform bill is unconstitutional because either the words health care are not in the document or the document doesn’t give the federal government those powers. Yet nowhere in the constitution does it give corporations the rights of people. Now we have a conundrum.
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The easy simple thing to do is to get rid of corporations. Corporations are made of people so why not just get rid of the special laws for corporations and make the people who are in the corporations responsible for them. Solves the problem very easily. BTW I support using the 10th more and also am a supporter of the 4th amendment and think both are being violated by the Feds all the time.
Your beliefs are not entirely consistent! How dare you be human?!Seriously though, how many fucking people are arguing that health care reform is unconstitutional? I could as easily aruge that the radical left promotes euthanasia. I meean, a small percentage do.
The whole SCOTUS decision is a partisan deception. Corporations have no brain, much like an accident victim on life support. They only function by a means of paid caretakers(CEOs, presidents, managers, workers). The interested parties concerned about the corporation’s welfare are the stockholders. There’s a defect in so-called conservative thinking that transfers political decision making of the corporation to the CEO’s exclusively. Who said the CEO knows what the politics of the corporation is? What about the political opinions of all the other caretakers and interested parties? Some may be Communists. Some may be Nazis. Some may not want to give corporate money to anyone. That’s where SCOTUS breaks down and reveals itself to be a simple justification for corporate (CEO) tyranny. I’m surprised nobody is making a big deal about this.