Ronnie Dugger, the retired editor of the crusading Texas Observer weekly wasn't talking about Monica. And we know that what the corporations want, the corporations get. Big Corporations foul the environment, manipulate the economy, pollute elections with cash, bust unions and shaft workers.
Officials move from companies to government and back.
And with statistics on the rising wealth and lower taxes of corporations, while the reverse is happening to real people. We have maintained democratic forms - elections, representative democracy, members of Congress voted in by majority. They take bills up, have hearings. It looks like democracy. But what's permitted to pass through the forms into law is bought and paid for.