Yoda: Jim Kunstler Says “Overturn Citizens United”

Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government

Jim Kunstler's Solution To Uniting American Citizens – Overturn ‘Citizens United'

The crux of the argument is that corporations cannot be said to be entirely and altogether the equivalent of persons for all legal purposes. In law, corporations have duties, obligations, and responsibilities to their shareholders first, and only after that to the public interest or the common good, and only then by pretty strict legal prescription. It may be assumed that the interests of corporations and their shareholders are in opposition to, and in conflict with, the public interest. And insofar as elections are fundamentally matters of the public interest, corporations must be prohibited from efforts to influence the outcome of elections.

Mongoose: GOP Splitting, Trump to Lead Third Party?

Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
Mongoose

In Free-Range Trump, Many See Potential for a Third Party

To be sure, the barriers to creating a relevant third party are high and longstanding. But the nationalistic, conservative populist agenda that Mr. Trump ran on has wealthy patrons like the Mercer family, the software billionaires, and Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur. They have told friends and associates that they are committed to seeing the movement that Mr. Trump ignited live on.