Common good ought to trump bottom line

Our system is not capitalism, but rather corporatism: Corporate monopolistic greed masquerades behind a facade of capitalism, calls itself “free market,” but is essentially non-competitive. Corporations have the money and the power to control the media and venal politicians, and thus elections and the government. Corporatism has replaced our democracy.

Wake up, America. Time for a second American Revolution, not this time against king and parliament, but against the tyranny of governors and legislators who do not have the common good of the American people at heart. What’s stated in our Declaration of Independence: the basic rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” demands and guarantees the right to form associations (unions) to collective bargain for a livelihood.

Present day governors and state legislators, of a certain political party, have usurped our rights no less than did King George and parliament in the 1770s. When will the minions of corporate Ameica realize we are all one in our human needs — that the common good is far more important to the preservation of American freedom than the greed of a bottom line?

Marion J. Reis

Wheaton