It's been nearly five months since the attack on the United States Capitol. But in many respects, nothing has changed. None of the 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the election on January 6 — fueling the lie that motivated the attack — have expressed contrition or remorse. Several have attempted to
As long as people count on corporations to do the right thing, I fear we're going to get similar results as these. These companies are doing what's best for them, not you or me or even the long-term global economy. When relentless pursuit of capital is the raison d'être, these firms will stoop to anything for the sake of an advantage.
Judd, Awesome! Thank you so much. This is *important* research, critical to the Rule of Law and American Democracy capital D. Keep pushing. I'm promoting all your fine work. ❤️
We need to support a pathway and funding to have these exposes posted as full/half page ads in Washington Post, NYT, etc. While PI information is spread through other journalists, nothing exceeds like excess and big a** ads would get their attention. Make it blatantly hard for them to ignore or not respond.
Politics is the practice of dividing people by hatreds. Politics has nothing to do with good governance. The job of a politician is to get elected. To do this, they require "wedge" issues. And over the years these "wedge" issues have become more contrived & perverse, e.g. COVID : Political Germ-Warfare. Good governance requires sincerity, cooperation, & the _occasional_ compromise.
Politics is diametrically opposed to good governance. And, historians might wonder if democracy is just an ephemeral step between tyrannies.
Who says our country isn’t owned by corporations and driven by profit above all else? It doesn’t have to be this way but to make it stop, we must tax individuals to pay for our politicians and stop ALL MONEYS from everywhere else. How many of our current politicians would want their jobs if they couldn’t get rich off them? Honest ones with integrity would be the only ones left who wanted the job. Now wouldn’t that be more like “democracy” than what we have now?
Despite Corporations being considered as entities by the Supreme Court, they are really not like human entities that have complex thoughts. Their focus is pretty much on the big investors and their often-bloated BOD. But then in our ever-evolving Idiocracy, fewer humans charged with the responsibility of governing us are capable of complex thoughts such as thinking about long term issues as survival of democracies or the survival of the planet. Corporations are a reflection of the awful leadership of which they play a big part.
Apparently you have a full time job checking what corporations say they will commit to versus what they actually do. No wonder people get cynical after a while following the (factual) news.
The money-over-people attack on our country's democratic system is absolutely the most important and horrible issue of our era.
Thank you for keeping track of it.
Here's an example of a company, Patagonia, using its position to help democracy: https://lat.ms/2RGwNiv
As long as people count on corporations to do the right thing, I fear we're going to get similar results as these. These companies are doing what's best for them, not you or me or even the long-term global economy. When relentless pursuit of capital is the raison d'être, these firms will stoop to anything for the sake of an advantage.
Judd, Awesome! Thank you so much. This is *important* research, critical to the Rule of Law and American Democracy capital D. Keep pushing. I'm promoting all your fine work. ❤️
We need to support a pathway and funding to have these exposes posted as full/half page ads in Washington Post, NYT, etc. While PI information is spread through other journalists, nothing exceeds like excess and big a** ads would get their attention. Make it blatantly hard for them to ignore or not respond.
Politics is the practice of dividing people by hatreds. Politics has nothing to do with good governance. The job of a politician is to get elected. To do this, they require "wedge" issues. And over the years these "wedge" issues have become more contrived & perverse, e.g. COVID : Political Germ-Warfare. Good governance requires sincerity, cooperation, & the _occasional_ compromise.
Politics is diametrically opposed to good governance. And, historians might wonder if democracy is just an ephemeral step between tyrannies.
Who says our country isn’t owned by corporations and driven by profit above all else? It doesn’t have to be this way but to make it stop, we must tax individuals to pay for our politicians and stop ALL MONEYS from everywhere else. How many of our current politicians would want their jobs if they couldn’t get rich off them? Honest ones with integrity would be the only ones left who wanted the job. Now wouldn’t that be more like “democracy” than what we have now?
Do these corporations also donate to Democrats? A comparison of donationss would be interesting to see.
Despite Corporations being considered as entities by the Supreme Court, they are really not like human entities that have complex thoughts. Their focus is pretty much on the big investors and their often-bloated BOD. But then in our ever-evolving Idiocracy, fewer humans charged with the responsibility of governing us are capable of complex thoughts such as thinking about long term issues as survival of democracies or the survival of the planet. Corporations are a reflection of the awful leadership of which they play a big part.
Apparently you have a full time job checking what corporations say they will commit to versus what they actually do. No wonder people get cynical after a while following the (factual) news.
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I thought it was 35 Republicans, not 6, who voted for the bill.