If you didn’t already think that one of the most important long-term issues in our society is the twin hydra of corporate personhood and campaign finance reform, today’s Supreme Court ruling should be a shocking eye-opener for you. Make no mistake, this is serious, worrisome stuff.
It’s time for all of the groups in the “progressive” spectrum to come together to mount a major, long-term campaign to end the misguided, extra-constitutional notion of corporate personhood. It seems to me that everyone has thought this is “someone else’s issue.” No longer. If we don’t get our act together here, pretty soon we’re not going to have a democracy left to argue about. It is well past time to see a serious infusion of resources and organizing around these issues.
Good starting points if you’re new to this whole issue area are POCLAD’s book “Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy“and CELDF’s “Democracy School.”