I yearn for leadership that protects and defends living, breathing human beings' needs and interests instead of legal fictions (corporations) that, if they were people, would be diagnosed as sociopathic character disorders.
Back at the founding of the the US, a corporation's charter was required to be dissolved after 40 years, so suspicious and cautious were the earliest Americans about corporations.
Now, corporations are immortal, which is another abzurdity about their being considered 'persons' under the law.
Following the reducto ad absurdum of corporations as people, if you look at them as people, the vast majority of them could be diagnosed as sociopaths. They're completely self-absorbed, their only motivation is profit and destroying competition (other corporations or by the same legal definition other people), they have no conscience, no capacity for empathy. The only time they do something that could be construed as generous or for the greater good is when their consultants tell them it's good for business. It's like they display all of the lower qualities of human beings - greed avarice predatory nature. The same behavior in a flesh and blood human being would elicit cries of shame in the community, but somehow it's just fine for a corporation to behave that way. Somehow it's just fine for a corporation to behave in ways that if displayed by a flesh and blood human, it would be considered appalling.
And they can't be criminally prosecuted.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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