Chesapeake to Run For Governor

[Teatownclown]

if they aren't broke or merged or aquired by the time that comes around....

This is brilliant!

[TheArtist]

  A person can comment on, be involved with, etc. the political process, but can't only a US citizen can legally vote or run for office in the US?  A corporation can be a "person" in the US but it is not a "citizen" of the US.     

[AquaMan]

Watched "Rollerball" last nite (for as long as i could stand it). A movie from 1975 about the promotion and acceptance of a violent sport to entertain the masses and their corporate masters.

They started the game off with "the Corporate National Anthem".

The irony of the Supreme Court giving corporations person status for some protections but not for others is not lost on movie makers. Why not run the president of Apple vs  the president of Lowes as representing their corporate entities? How is that so different than what we do now?

[heironymouspasparagus]

Watched "Rollerball" last nite (for as long as i could stand it). A movie from 1975 about the promotion and acceptance of a violent sport to entertain the masses and their corporate masters.

They started the game off with "the Corporate National Anthem".

The irony of the Supreme Court giving corporations person status for some protections but not for others is not lost on movie makers. Why not run the president of Apple vs  the president of Lowes as representing their corporate entities? How is that so different than what we do now?

Ahhhhh....you like documentaries, too, huh?

[dbacks fan]

Ahhhhh....you like documentaries, too, huh?

You have to admit that Jewison in developing this movie from a short story by William Harrison called the "Rollerball Murders" created a film that looked at the future being run by corporations, and that there is no gov't, there is a line in the movie by the character that Moses Gunn plays where he states that he can remember when there where three countries, that corporations decide how society lives, and the similarities to the power that corporations wield now. Documentary? Yeah, just like "The Day After Tomorrow" 

[AquaMan]

The difference seems to be in nuance. Corporations do run this country through lobbyists, influence peddling, bribery, communications, and political chicanery. They simply don't care to run candidates when it is cheaper and less complicated to buy them!

I think it was the CEO of GE who famously made the remark back in the 50's that what was good for GE was good for America. Significantly, not vice versa.