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I have a different perspective, grounded in reality. Around 1971 I read the People's Almanac. I was stunned reviewing the economic details. The world's largest economies by dollars were the USA, Britain, France, and then IBM. Wowser, thinks I. Hundreds of other Nations, but many Corporations, mostly USA, larger than hundreds of nations. This means these companies wield the same economic power as many governments and much more power than the small countries that they often do business in/with. The CIA was chartered to help USA businesses overseas, and Latin America is a great example of what that translates to, along with the School of the Americas and its' dictator military training. These Corporations are now empowered by SCOTUS to have the same rights as citizens, so now we are a federation of people and Corporations and the Corporations have the economic power. "Of the people, by the people, for the people" has been bastardized to our detriment. Alexander Hamilton wanted to make the USA a nice place to do business, but right now it is a place for "dirty business" like wars for money, wars for good business, wars for the Corporate/Military/Industrial Complex. I submit we have a $750 billion military budget that, if given a voting choice, would be reduced substantially by the electorate. That would be human voters.
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