Now that Senator Bernie Sanders has collected over 109,000 electronic signatures in support of the Saving American Democracy Amendment, which would help restore the definition of citizens as being human beings, you might ask yourself why you haven’t heard about Sanders’ amendment in any newspaper or newsgroup, or on the radio, or on national television.
With all the brouhaha over five Supreme Court justices deciding that corporations, a legal concept, deserve the rights and privileges of an American citizen; one of the interesting aspects of this product of deranged minds remains; who profits from such an Escher-like contortion of freedom of speech?
Let’s face it, corporations are incapable of thought, and the Four Supremes Plus One seems to have as much interest in the rights of American citizens as you would find in an early prototype of Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
You might think corporations have been given this pseudo-citizenship in order for them to control the United States government. Think again. For the most part corporations aren’t designed to plan that far in advance. Corporations are intrinsically conservative, not radical. Virtually any change costs businesses money, so it’s in their DNA to be change adverse. So why the drive for corporate personhood?
Ever wonder who sets the conversation for the American dinner table? (If that still exists.) Since you’re reading this, you probably read various news sources in print and on the web but you also listen to, or watch, the tubes and be they Fox cryptos or Rachel, Lawrence, or Ed, the political conversation is pretty much dictated by these professional pundits and their questionable news sources.
How do these scribbling, talking heads earn their money? Why do all of them consider news to be how many times Newt Gingrich farts in the face of Mitt Romney? Why distract the informed citizen with daily insignificant political nonsense when something as essential to the American way of life as Bernie Sanders’ Saving American Democracy Amendment receives almost no coverage at all?
Getting back to the earlier question, the organizations that directly profit the most from corporate personhood are the for-profit media networks. What has been created is a constant election cycle which demands constant partisan advertisements.
Any good ad salesman has a general idea of their client’s advertising budget. What happened with the Four Supremes Plus One decisions that speech=cash and corporations=people, was that the political advertising budgets for corporations were transfigured from Pound Puppies to Wicked Wild Wolves. Media corporations realized that corporate personhood meant corporations were now free to purchase infinite hours of pro-corporate advertisements.
Do you think that the media outlets want to cut their own throats? Do you think that Rachel’s, and Ed’s, and Bill’s producers aren’t informed by their superiors that covering Bernie Sanders’ Saving American Democracy Amendment is actually cutting their own throats?
Remember as you consider whatever distraction MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, Fox, ABC, NBC, etc., presents you for the day, that all these outlets live on advertising revenue and Bernie Sanders’ Saving American Democracy Amendment would slay their golden egg laying geese.
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