because I cannot understand how anyone can think a democratic republic can continue when those with more money get to buy elections and officials and write the rules and laws to their benefit while screwing the vast majority of the people.
If we are supposed to have the equal protection of the law why is some money more privileged than other money when it comes to taxation?
Is Capital really so much more valuable than LABOR that the former can pay 15% or less on earnings while labor starts with 7.65% of payroll taxes and has income taxes added on top of that?
How is it possible that a corporation can claim huge earnings to drive up its stock prices, then pay massive bonuses to its executives, yet somehow have no corporate tax liability?
If a corporation is a person, why cannot it be required to go to prison, to serve on a jury?
And if a corporation is a person, isn't giving it better rights than humans a violation of equal protection?
I am 66 years old. I taught Government to high school students for 12 years. I must have failed them, because I do not see any of this even implied in our founding documents.
So maybe I am not as smart as people think.
But let me say this - I am smart enough to know when I and the vast majority of American people are getting f&*ked by the rich and powerful.
And when more people come to understand what is going on, perhaps those rich and powerful f&*kers had better watch out.
Because after all, there are far more of We the People than there are of them. Oh, and most of the military and the police are part of We the People as well.