Overwhelming majority of Americans want companies to stay away from political advocacy, poll

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[–]EddieC 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The corporations, or rather the "elites" behind the corporations, won't stop owning politics @ "political advocacy". They do so to own the economy @ all of us.
 

If we want the "elites" and their Corporations to stop owning us, we have to own the economy ourselves ie decorporatize and co-opefy the economy. That way, we will decenter the corporations and with that the "elites".
 

But the "elites'" Gatekeepers distract us from ever realizing or considering this as a possibility. All the large accounts on social media are Gatekeepers to direct and suck peoples' time and attention.
 

[–]jamesK_3rd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is the only reason to miss Trump.

He drew these people out, even if all he ever did was mean tweet and then play golf with Schumer.

They had to, because the end or something.. now they're attempting to go back to the shadows, kinda sad.

[–]iDontShift 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

but that is literally the only reason they exist.

because they certainly don't serve the public good, but their own interests.

and that is, by law, greed.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They ban both corporate political advocacy and political donations (ie Citizens United). Advocacy is just a political donation, with extra steps, and no maximum legal limit.

Why make a limited donation to a campaign, when you can spend unlimited amounts to campaign for the candidate yourself through advocacy of them and their talking-point issues, with no oversight or accountability of your deceptive messaging?