14 May 2014 12:26 am
Corporations are a response to government, as much as unions are to corporations and government. Government control over economic and social affairs is the reason why 'bribery' and funding of campaigns by private groups is necessary, least a tyranny of a majority through government become a reality - the catch22 is that a wealthy minority can eventually seize power and run the show AKA like modern America. The only way left really is to have the government fund political campaigns, and not allow private funding, but that would just entrench the status quo and be highly anti-democratic (unless un-elected and elected parties each get the same funding from the government).This is why "Rights" need to be restricted. When you allow corporations to have a "political voice" because people can't have their "rights diminished in groups," you get absurd results like corporations bribing politicians with campaign funding and drowning the voices of people who are not in corporations and can't command the level of money businesses do.