Corporations are not people

There has been wide consternation in liberal circles over the supreme court overturning the McCain-Feingold limits on political advertising. I agree its a disaster for democracy, but was never very comfortable with the way the limits were implemented anyway. Rather than trying to identify kinds of speech or limit speech, its seemed to me that the real problem has been treating corporations as if they have the same rights as people -- or indeed any rights. I think corporations should be evaluated on a yearly basis and, any corporation that is not demonstrably serving in the public interest, should be dis-incorporated.

After years of living in a kleptocracy, I thought there was real hope that the Democrats would use their opportunity to make real change. I was hoping for a Newt Gingrich like "deal with America". Instead, the Democrats appear to already be owned by the corporations lock, stock, and barrel -- or, at least enough of them, that they're not willing to do anything. I guess now we get to see just how deep the rabbit hole is.