The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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Conservatives are the heirs to the Founders' vision. But we have to act like it.
The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously.
'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'
If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
Corporations are economic entities or structures, and yet they're allowed to fund political candidates, and when those candidates are elected, guess who gets in the door first? It's corporations.
It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.