Yes, they have been programmed to hate corporations, but what they don't seem to comprehend is, things like "think-progress.org" are corporations. The Southern Poverty Law Center... another "corporation." Do you suppose liberals would enjoy watching all of their bastions of "the cause" go down in flames, because the SCOTUS rendered them impotent? I highly doubt it! And, whatever would Democrats do, if unions no longer were allowed to participate in the political process?
They THINK they can use SCOTUS to prohibit certain rights to certain groups, namely corporations, but the Constitution is pretty clear on this, plus, we passed laws against segregation, years ago!
The notion that individuals or groups of individuals have been "programmed to hate corporations" is paranoid hysteria. The simple fact is corporate profits have risen steadily to record heights while average levels of working class incomes have steadily declined or have remained stagnant. That situation understandably has fostered resentment, which is considerably different from
programmed hatred.
Comparing the Southern Poverty Law Center to General Electric, for example, is flagrantly specious. The latter corporation exists specifically and exclusively for the purpose of generating profit while the former has no such interest. And the idea that wishing to prevent the influence of potentially enormous amounts of corporate money on elections is a form of "segregation" is absurd.
You're confusing topics, we were talking about the "corporations are people" nonsense, prompted by a recent SCOTUS ruling that corporations could not be denied freedom of speech on the basis they were corporate entities. A corporation is a form of assembly, and we do have the right to assembly, you can't deny constitutional rights on that basis.
I don't accept your lie about middle class incomes. My father had a fantastic job when I was a child, he made just over $8,000 a year in 1964. Now you want to try and claim incomes have been stagnant, and that is simply false. His same job, today, pays over $100k per year. So, in the span of 40 years, that's how much of a percent increase? You ca do the maths, but it is substantial.
When I see that corporations have made "record profits" do you know how that translates to me? That a group of people have successfully practiced free market capitalism by producing a wanted and needed good or service to a satisfied consumer base, who willingly bought their product or service, and they did this better than their competition. In earning "record profit" they also paid "record taxes." In my opinion, we need MORE of this, not LESS.
YES... you have been brainwashed. Programmed to HATE corporations. To be envious and jealous of corporations and the "wealthy" because this is precisely how Socialist Marxist sell their failed ideology. I learned this back in high school, 30+ years ago, but the public education system isn't what it used to be. Now, when the Socialist Marxists were selling this crap to Europeans, it wasn't hard to do, because most of those countries were run by kings and oligarchies, where the ruling class and wealthy controlled all power and people had no freedom or opportunity. Under such brutal and dismal conditions, I can see where people were duped into accepting this new innovative idea. But here in our country, we don't have a ruling class oligarchy run by the wealthy, we have a constitutional republic with a free enterprise system and free market capitalism, which affords EVERY PERSON the opportunity to become as wealthy as they please.
Because you are highly uneducated or uninformed of past world history, you are easily convinced that we have a ruling class oligarchy, that the wealthiest 1% call all the shots, and that we MUST do something about that dynamic. What they have convinced you we have to do, is destroy the greatest system ever devised by man, to raise more people out of poverty and afford more economic opportunity, for a system that has repeatedly failed, every time it has ever been attempted, has led to more oppression and death, poverty and lack of opportunity, than any other system. You are trading a steak dinner for a shit sandwich, and you don't even seem to realize it.
