http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/opinion/26brooks.html?hp
This is a very interesting assessment of populism, but my issue is that as long as corporations are given more and more power over politics (ie the recent supreme court decision) then none of this will matter. The more closely a corporation is thought of as a person in te...rms of the constitution, the more freedom they really have in our political system. They inherently have more money than the individual citizen, so even though they don't have voting power, it doesn't matter because they now have more power to get politicians elected than any individual or groups people with limited funds.
In a perfect fair system it is not right to wage a war on the M.B.A's, but that's not the system that is in place. That sort of populism does exist because corporations have the economic power over policy-making. Our voting power is very limited to what candidates corporations will allow to be exposed on a mass scale.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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