Need help with some sloganeering
Well, I just cannot make up my mind. Pondering someone's Bernie sticker that included a swipe at the dreadful Citizens United Supreme Court decision, I had what I think is a great idea for a bumper sticker:
Democrats say: Protect people from corporations.
Republicans say: Corporations ARE people.
Problem is, when I think about it, I have a feeling that there are, unfortunately, a lot of Democrats who actually feel corporations are people; or at least are comfortable with the encrustation of USA jurisprudence that has transmogrified corporations into "people," and with more rights than human beings have.
So, what about this:
Liberals say: Protect people from corporations.
Conservatives say: Corporations ARE people.
But I see the same problem here: lots of social liberals who are actually quite comfortable with treating corporations as people.
So, a third option:
Progressives say: Protect people from corporations.
Conservatives say: Corporations ARE people.
Your ideas, please.
Comments
Easy for me.
Neither or no party says: Protect people from corporations. They hem and haw around the edges but never commit to a truly public option.
Sad but true that all currently are bought and paid for.
In fact, they, the multi-party, are completely beholden to the corporations.
I think I'll just party like it's bla bla 99.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Try this
Politicians say: Corporations ARE people.
I say: Protect people from corporations.
That is a bumper sticker for the 99%
or maybe
The top 0.1% say: Corporations ARE people.
The rest of us say: Protect people from corporations.
I am still not satisfied, but that's what I've got for now.
The Farmer Used to Farm to Feed His Family, Now He Feeds His
family to the farm.
Men have become tools of their tools... Old Thoreau really had a way with words.
Normal people believe that corporations exist to serve people. What kind of person believes that people exist to serve corporations?
Corporations are property, not people.
When did people start getting treated like property and when did property start getting treated like people?
People are more important than property.
You can serve people or you can serve property, but you can't serve both. One American political party should take note...
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
When People Own Corporations It's Called an Economy.
When corporations own people it's called slavery.
Corporations serving people is a market economy. People serving corporations is a slave economy.
When corporations have more rights than people it's not democracy.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
heh ...
Republicans:
Corporations are People, who never die.
Democrats:
Vote for Corporations, so you'll never die.
Me:
Vote for people, who are kind enough to die. Kill corporations.
My favorite....
oligarchy: Corporations are people.
people: If it can't have a colonoscopy, it isn't a person.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
How's this?
Dems: Save people from corporations.
Repubs: Save corporations from people.
(I tried to shorten it a little to better fit on a bumper sticker.)
It's likely you are being far too generous to many Democrats.
Since it's a done deal
…I've come to accept our corporate overlords. I'd go with:
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
One of the many great protest signs at Occupy was this...
"I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
How about something less
How about something less lengthy than this?
The top .1% and corporate politicians say that corporations are people with rights over real people.
The odds are over 99 to 1% that government in the public interest should be a Founding principle - maybe with A Bill Of inalienable rights for humans?
Edit: Every citizen has guaranteed equal rights.
Why do people in corporations, heading a self-interested group of people with more money than most others, somehow get to buy extra rights - to take those of regular citizens?
Re-edit: If corporations were people, they'd have no rights over the rest of us.
And if money is speech, the 99% have been silenced.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.