are destroying lives because the corporations don't care, they are the same: Money in politics, income inequality, climate change, prisons and police, taking healthcare away from the insurance companies, wars. Hill will talk a better game, but either improve incrementally or not at all and blame it on an obstructionist Congress. I have been shocked at the DOJ's lack of effectiveness against the out-of-control police (not any more, but at first, with a black Pres and black AG). But folks are making money on these issues, so nothing much changes, they'd piss off their donors if they tried.

On a few social issues, Hill may be significantly better. But how much does it matter that people don't call you names, if they're not going to let you vote or pay you enough to live and are going to imprison you if you walk "wrong" and not going to give you access to abortion and other healthcare services? Not to mention that it gets increasingly difficult to survive the summers, and there is more and more pressure to take in refugees from around the world and more and more anger at the U.S. for our arrogant meddling overseas.

Supreme Court? Meh. Obama killed that argument with Merrick Garland.

In short, the differences are tiny, the similarities vast, and Jill is significantly better than any of the rest. Trump scares me only slightly more than Hillary. I don't want either of them and intend to vote for the person I want.

GWB and his cronies gave the serfs $600 and told us to go shopping. Now that same club has demanded that all Americans play nice with private, for profit insurance companies, or we are penalized for not spending $10,000 a year toward their bottom line. Even the Dems in the club are forcing us to gamble in the Wall St Casinos with any retirement money we might have saved along the way, and also want to give the Social Security trust fund to their buddies on Wall St. The Club came out of the closet at the same time SS, Medicare, unemployment insurance started being called "entitlements".

was the first word spoken in Alfred Jarry's radical play Ubu Roi.

The USA did not have political transparency so Sunshine Laws and the FOIA law were passed as remedies. Immediately, those in power - including the courts - began to chip away at the straightforward laws until we get to where we are today: The spirit and letter of the law can be ignored if you are rich and powerful enough.

Another area similar, is allowing the frackers to classify their poisons as a patent, veiled from public view. I think public health should over ride any claim of patent protection when the ground water is fouled.

We the People of the United States of America are merely an exploitable resource for the acquisition of profit by a select few who managed to gain control of the most powerful economic engine on Earth and ran it over a cliff.

I hope you will look more closely at the history of the short list of companies you refer to as the select few. You will find they were the military industrial complex of the United States, of Nazi Germany, and of the Soviet Union simultaneously for the duration of WWII.

Their difficulty as core industrial developers of the Soviet Union was not that it was a dictatorship, which they wholeheartedly supported, but that it was a Labor Dictatorship, which they had serious problems with. Therefore I believe they built Hitler in order to replace the Soviet system with Fascism, to end the labor movement throughout Europe, and to put an end to democracy wherever it had begun to appear.

I believe these industrial giants assumed the United States would come into the war on the side of Germany. Some had supported Franklin Roosevelt's campaign for presidency. FDR abandoned them. However, he licensed them to be exempt from the Trading With the Enemys Act for the duration of the war. None were prosecuted before, during, or after the war for arming, financing, and fueling Germany for the entire length of WWII, even though hearings were held in Congress establishing their guilt.

As a result, we have a legacy of control by this cartel to this day, plundering, murdering, and nailing us in every conceivable way, as they are untouchable.

I hope you will read Charles Higham's, Trading With the Enemy, and David Talbot's, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government, in furtherance of your interest in this subject.

constitutional amendments, written neither in the vague principles of the original nor the absurd and inevitably inadequate convolutions of legal "language", but rather a combination of the original forms and explicit examples using incidents the court has previously permitted, but that are now to be proscribed.

Granted, I no doubt have a simplistic notion of the whole thing, but it seems to me that all of this is protected against in your Constitution and Bill of Rights - however badly misinterpreted it may have been in the past or present (such as a clause requiring states to supply muskets for their local militia when necessary for their defense, having no standing army - and with guns then also necessary to the food supply for a higher population percentage than now - misinterpreted into corporate 'GUNZ [SALEZ] RIGHTZ for the [White] people to buy and carry all over the place'!!! to terrorize the general population) by such as various generations of (for a more recent example,) Bush Supreme Court appointees evidently for that purpose of misinterpretation for corporate/billionaire benefit, Bush 1 being big on a 'New World Order' and Bush 2, representing the fossil fuel industry, being the one to initiate the TPP corporate coup series. They're very obviously either incompetent judges, with such decisions as 'Citizens United' invalid on those grounds, or corrupt, with such decisions invalid on those grounds, take your pick. I know what mine would be.

The best of the US Founders harboured deep concerns about corporations becoming too big or existing for more than a short period for specific purposes only, getting out of control, gaining control of public policy or over government itself and would never have allowed them to buy government policy, never mind install their own reps or purchase whole political parties. Are Supreme Court Judges really such ignoramuses that they can't work that out in purportedly 'following the intentions of the Founders'? Or in actually serving the public good, which was the actual purpose behind 'The Great Experiment of Democracy'?

"Conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,"

Not 'some more equal than others', based upon wealth, even if they did have the ignorance issues of their time, which should have been long since sorted out, if not for corporate media hate/fear/division propaganda, and which needs to be dealt with now. (Gee, thanks to Bill Clinton for the media concentration/monopolies he legislated to allow, now in turn lying for Hillary to become the Liar-In-Chief...)

But it seems baldly evident to me that the problem is and has been that your built-in checks and balances aren't functioning with every level of government so corrupt, and not with your Constitution.

And I'm very much afraid that opening your Constitution for amendments will result it being rewritten as a corporate bill of rights over the people...

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United States Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed following the oftentimes bitter 1787–88 battle over ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and crafted to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically delegated to Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people. The concepts codified in these amendments are built upon those found in several earlier documents, including the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the English Bill of Rights 1689, along with earlier documents such as Magna Carta.

And I believe that they had to be pretty much snuck in during a disagreement over them at the time, didn't they? Now, they're essentially being ignored - but they still stand, as does the Constitution which incorporates (sorry, lol) them.

The Constitutional rights of all Americans are guaranteed to be protected throughout the United States - and they haven't been. This is not the fault of the US Constitution, but of governments both Federal and local failing in their duties to the public they exist to serve.

The Constitution is forever, as are your inalienable rights, while individual judges - and politicians holding office - come and go. That document alone, the oath to uphold which TPP-supporting officials betray by passing it, renders the traitorous corporate coups legally and Constitutionally void, whatever any corrupt official may claim. Don't let anyone mess with it, for FSM's sake and that of the rest of us.