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In Delaware, Corporаtions Cаn Now Vote. Are We Insane? (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002 to c/usa@midwest.social

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Seriously. Not dystopian science fiction or a new novel by an AI version of George Orwell. Actual corporations — what America’s first Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall, in 1819 called “an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law” — are today voting in elections for everything from the mayor and town council to referendums on corporate taxes and limits on corporate behavior.

What could possibly go wrong?

There are, after all, more corporations than people in Delaware. They can now decide who’s going to run the government, what the laws are, and — through their votes to elect humans who’ll take corporate money to do what corporations want (something else that corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court legalized) — even what regulations companies must follow and what limits there are on their behavior.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Yes, yes we are.

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Who decides what the corporation votes for?

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

https://youtu.be/Lh2TgokrDfw