Death Of American Democracy

On Thursday the United States Supreme Court has changed the way American Politics will work for the next Hundred Years. A vote 0f 5 to 4 has determined that corporations like Ex-on, Chevron, McDonald's Pepsi, GE now have a voice like you and me. The court has decided to allow these huge corporations to donate as much money as they want to buy our politicians votes.

I feel that this is the end of our democracy's as we know it and will bring into existence a new American future of greed and corporate dictatorships. It is time for all Americans to say enough is enough. We can not allow greedy corporations to attack the Human way of life.Earth belongs to all human we all have a right to live in on a planet where the needs of the majority are more important then the greed of a few.

Shame on you Republicans who don't understand that true leadership comes from leading the masses of people who just want to find a better life.

Please take the time to write Obama: http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Your Senate Member: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Your Congressional Representative: http://www.congress.org

The Supreme Court stabbed Democracy this week. I was there; I saw it happen. I brought our petition with me -- your signatures -- and presented them to the Court. Now it's time to act.

We have filed six bills to reverse this assault, the "Save Our Democracy" platform. Sign this petition today, and show your support for saving our democracy. Together, we will move these bills forward and prevent the sale of our government to the highest bidder.

http://salsa.mydccc.org/o/30019/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4&tag=fac...

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• congress
• United
• States
• Supreme
• Court
• Politics
• corporations
• Greed
• Republicans
• Democrats
• Independant
• Obama
• senate
• Wal-Mart
• enjoy
• corporate
• welfare
• greed
• rachel
• madoow
• act
• now
• equality
• gay
• rights

[lailaagrado]

im so sorry to hear that,wish i could change your life guys :( may be if you two take part in show like The Amazing race? :)

xxx

[depfox]

I would so love to be on that show :O)

[alexrousseau815]

Welcome to hell, population us. Once again America proves to me that the rich rule and the rest of us are left to die. This...this is just hideous. I mean, how bleak will our lives become if corporations decide how we live? America isn't our "home of the free and the brave" anymore because of things like this.

Thank you for the video, Jay. I'll make sure to write and pass the petitions around.

[Ender1zero1]

As long as the Reps continues to abuse the filibuster it doesn't matter what President Obama and the Dems want to accomplish. Justice Roberts and his conservative court have sold the American people to the corps. thanks conservatives we are now a corpocracy

[22350693521]

@Bellalee40 yep pretty much. your lucky to not live here. in the us we view ourselves as the best country ever, yet we are becoming a 3rd world country founded on corporatism.

[Bellalee40]

So does that mean that corporations can just buy the government??? Im from NZ so I dont know much about your government and how it runs...!

[4tyLLZ]

American politics have always been steered by the "hidden hands" of corporate interests or/and the political elite (in other words, popular opinion has very, very rarely mattered much in terms of the policies that either of the parties decide upon). What is interesting about this new legislation though (or rather deletion of earlier legislations) is that it's done so publicly. Like the public has finally become gullible enough for decisions like this to be made without consequence.

[somersetdc]

You thought you could change the Republican party as a gay man?! I have a bridge to sell you...just think of all the money you'll make from the tolls.

[Sandshoe218]

america sucks

[TooLateTomorrow]

@alexrousseau815

Please, corporations don't rule anything, idiots just make this out to be much more dramatic than it actually is. It is and always will be the land of the free and home of the brave. If you don't like this country then get the hell out.

[joe035]

We were founded as a Constitutional Republic. The founders never wanted a Democracy in fear that it would lead to tyranical rule. In fact you may hear the likes of Hillary make the claim that we are a democracy when nothing could be further from the truth. Some claim we are a representative democracy because of the 17th amendment but that to is a perversion & would not be enough to define us as a democracy. We are a REPUBLIC. You have a problem with corporations donating, but not unions why??

[SUPREMEQUEEN09]

OK 1st, welcome to the Independent Part Jay! Next, don't be so quick to abandon hope. It is true that those ruling undermine a great deal, but it also has a silver lining. MONEY!!! When it become public who is & who is not supporting what political agendas....well the American plp will know who to boycott. Which is why its so important to maintain the boycott on Target. We still have power to affect politics Jay, its just in a different medium.

[jtizz711]

@TheYolk wrong. don't mean to be mean but they are different by definition. Democracy is a poor form of government because the ill-informed can decide what goes on. It's happening right in front of our eyes. The dumb asses are fucking everything up!

[TheYolk]

@jtizz711 its basically the same. publica and demos are the same words, one in greek and one in latin.