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Point. I would like, however, to point out before ending my participation in the threadjack that a comparison between apples and oranges is meaningless if both are poisoned. [/threadjack]
As for the problem outlined in the OP, this is going to continue to be an issue for as long as Corporate Personhood is recognised as a legal concept. Until individual rights (free speech, free assembly, bearing arms, entering contracts, etc) are fully and totally and -only- retained by individual human beings (not groups of individuals), those groups are going to use their greater clout (than most individuals) and reach (than most individuals) to advance their interests. The difficulty is that dismantling Corporate Personhood would also mean doing away with the way many advocacy groups and unions do business, and would require a fundamental paradigm shift within American (even world) political life and structure. -My- way out of this would be to dismantle Corporate Personhood root and branch, but since the Democrats would lose their vote/money-plantations within organised labour and the racial lobbies, and Republicans would lose their vote/money-plantations within the defense and petrochemical industries, I don't see it happening.
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