Corporations are a disease and cause the necrosis of a free market.

There is a group of Staphylococcus aureas that have become resistant to most of the antibiotics that historically have been used to fight infections.  This collection of bacteria is referred to as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).  Once an individual is colonized by MRSA it is increasingly difficult to rid their bodies of this infection.  It is possible but difficult and often times the patient’s colonization will reoccur over the course of their life.

Corporations and MRSA have a lot in common.  In early US history, corporations were feared and extremely limited.  Over the course of history, corporations have come to be a common, if not essential, part of America’s economy, politics and war industry.

Every move that the government makes is not based on the best interests of the American constituency, but rather, on the mighty bloated corporations that have the resources and time to out fund, out maneuver, out law and out wit the society they are corrupting.  They have grown powerful enough to get the Supreme Court to rule that they should be considered as legal “persons” and therefore have equal protection under the Constitution as an actual living breathing US citizen.  There is no such thing as a good corporation (LLC) that has the ability to exist as an entity indefinitely. 

Two laws, one repealed and one enacted, demonstrate the absolute error of our ways in allowing these machines (LLCs) to continue to exist.  The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act and the Supreme Court’s confirmation of Citizen-United are equivalent to taking a MRSA coated dagger and thrusting it into the unguarded gut of America.

The Glass-Steagall Act protected American consumers from corporations using the money that had been placed in commercial banks to be used for speculative security purchases and trades.  Granted, from its inception in 1933, the Glass-Steagall Act had seen a slow degradation of its authority.  However, in 1999 when Clinton signed the repeal of this Act, it was the killing bullet to the skull of consumer protection against the unavoidable greed and lust of corporation to use that money to play their trillion dollar games and leave actual citizens to pay the price later.

The confirmation by the Supreme Court that corporations are “persons” equally protected by the US Constitution was the other side of that poisonous dagger that will ensure that not only does corporate MRSA get plunged into the American gut, but it will mingle with and allow the seeping of excrement to enter the otherwise sterile aspects of the American body.  The Citizens United decision has to be one of those most grievous examples of the decaying nature of our government’s ability to ascertain truth from fiction.

The biggest problem is us, though.  Next time you are at lunch with a smattering of people ask around the table to see who knows what Citizen United pertains to.  Ask about Glass-Steagall and watch the blank stares.  Then, ask about Honey Boo Boo, Jodi Arias or Casey Anthony and see the sudden shift in the crowd.  We are destroying ourselves.  We are eating MRSA pancakes and asking for extra syrup.