http://merrillmarkoe.com The site for all things Merrill Markoe Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:03:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://merrillmarkoe.com/this-new-supreme-court-ruling-heres-the-sane-solution http://merrillmarkoe.com/this-new-supreme-court-ruling-heres-the-sane-solution#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:42:00 +0000 Merrill Markoe http://merrillmarkoe.com/?p=1150 Now that this new Supreme Court ruling has opened the door officially to unlimited campaign control on the part of giant corporations,  it seems like it will no longer make  sense  to pretend that the “people” holding our nation’s highest political offices are actually not just figure heads for consortiums of international corporations. It’s easy for us to get confused and think of them as “people” (as in individuals, human beings) because they do peopley kinds of things like get haircuts, go on vacations, have sex with people they are not married to,etc. But the truth is that the only path to truly understanding the behavior of these so-called “people” depends on being able to see through the glossy veneer of their indecipherable yammering to the lobbyists and corporate interests who are really at their core. Read more

]]> Now that this new Supreme Court ruling has opened the door officially to unlimited campaign control on the part of giant corporations,  it seems like it will no longer make  sense  to pretend that the “people” holding our nation’s highest political offices are actually not just figure heads for consortiums of international corporations. It’s easy for us to get confused and think of them as “people” (as in individuals, human beings) because they do peopley kinds of things like get haircuts, go on vacations, have sex with people they are not married to,etc. But the truth is that the only path to truly understanding the behavior of these so-called “people” depends on being able to see through the glossy veneer of their indecipherable yammering to the lobbyists and corporate interests who are really at their core. Read more

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