Ron Paul warns of a Fascist Takeover in America

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Mr Khan said:

badgenome said:

Mr Khan said:
There's a simple way to crush corporate influence: publicly funded elections or the elimination of the notion of corporate personhood (return corporations to what they were originally meant to do: serve as safeguards against individual business liability, and ban them from being able to own intellectual property outright, and from contributing in any way, shape, or form to political campaigns)

One radical step being easier than multiple radical steps, and it will get everything back on track quickly by making politicians once again answerable to the people at large rather than the moneyed interests.

Right. All we have to do is eliminate freedom of speech, press, and association, and it's goodbye corporate influence!

The elimination of corporate personhood would in no way impact those things. The individuals who compose corporations would still have all their rights, just not the right to act anonymously behind the corporate veil in matters of influencing the course of American politics.

Or we can go with the "public funding only" one, where the most corporations would be reduced to is the indirect creation of aid.

How's that? People currently don't forfeit their right to speak freely just because they come together in a group, but that's exactly what you're suggesting they do. That's eviscerating the First Amendment, however you justify it.

As for public funding, I'd rather not be forced to pay for the political campaigns of people I don't support while being prevented from supporting the candidates I do like, thanks.