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Thursday, December 7th, 2023

Has “Corporate Personhood” Delivered America to the Brink of Dictatorship? You Betcha…..

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Source:     The Hartmann Report
Publication Date:     DEC 6, 2023
 Link: Has “Corporate Personhood” Delivered America to the Brink of Dictatorship? You Betcha…..
Stephan:  

Thom Hartmann and I often agree, and in this essay, he makes a point I have written about and with which I totally agree, corporate personhood. It is the result of a Supreme Court decision in 1886 which should be eliminated as should the Citizens United decision be reversed. This is why the American government has become so notably corrupt and is now, at least the Republicans, openly moving to making the U.S. a fascist anocracy. What I particularly respect is that Hartmann lays out the historical path explaining how this came to be. It is the first such essay I have seen outside of academic publication. Please read this. It will help you understand what is going on today, and why it is happening.

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America is in the midst of a domestic political crisis with a literal madman and his cult/Party — heavily supported by some of America’s largest companies — threatening to turn America into a dictatorship.

As Yahoo news reports this morning:

“Could a second Donald Trump presidency slide into dictatorship? A sudden spate of dystopian warnings has got America talking about the possibility less than a year before the US elections.

“Dark scenarios about what could happen if the twice-impeached Republican former president wins in 2024 have appeared in the space of a few days in major US media outlets that include The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Atlantic.”

So, where are we now and how the hell did we get here? It turns out we are seeing the consequences of a corrupt, bribed Supreme Court from over 150 years ago.

It was a fraud at the time, the result of a Supreme Court Justice having been bribed by the big railroads, and continues to be a fraud to this day. […]

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