Once again I called the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC, waited on hold, and didn't get on air, making me 3-for-3 lately in that regard. The topic of the discussion was the recent horrible People United decision by the Supreme Court, allowing unlimited spending by corporations in furtherance of their political goals
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So are unions. Yet they're expected to take a vote of their members, and even to support a candidate only to the percentage that their members do. Fair enough, but if corporations chose their policies on the basis of "one stockholder, one vote" (instead of "one dollar, one vote, and that only to ratify what management decided"), would things ever be different.
Unlike people, corporations are immortal
And that is also what is screwing up our copyright law, because Mickey Mouse was the first popular character to have been created and owned by a corporation rather than an individual, which (justifiably, if it were an individual making the claim) doesn't want to see the copyright expire in its own lifetime.
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We've had a clear and simple pattern for thirty years now: a Republican Administration takes a blowtorch to the Constitution, and they are succeeded by a Democratic Administration which entrenches the previous administrations gains.
Bill Clinton was significantly to the right of Richard Nixon, and Barak Obama is to the right of Bill Clinton . . .
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