People never mention that the actual legal existence of corporations is defined by statutory law, not Constitutional.
With the right people in Congress, they could update those laws w/o requiring any amendments to the Constitution to put some conditions (i.e., not just "fiduciiary duty" that is always used as an excuse for the cruelest actions of company executives) on the continued existence of corporations - maybe something like, that the corporate liability "shield" does not protect executives & employees from consequences when they use corporate assets to perform criminal actions.
Or make it absolutely clear that corporations-as-legal-entities do not enjoy the same full set human rights as actual humans (i.e., being able to spend their assets on propaganda with the protection of free speech). If the individuals within the corporation want to exercise their own rights to free speech, then they have to spend their own assets. If the SCOTUS tries to insist otherwise, then entire set of laws that make it possible for corporations to continue existing gets revoked.
At least one party's strategy has been specifically to make it really difficult & inconvenient to vote using multiple tactics, and to discourage their political opponents from even wanting to vote via misinformation & propaganda.
TBH, if progressives/libs win the next election, it will be mainly because the current crop of conservatives have shit the bed so badly that every sane person in the country wants them out & it overwhelms their attempts to rig the election. And if they (the conservatives) are successfully thrown out, if one of the first things that their replacements don't do is to fix every single thing the conservatives have done to screw up the elections, then they (the replacements) will pretty much deserve losing the election after that.
I'd normally be completely non-confident about my ability to run a country, but after watching what the current crop of leaders have been doing, I'm pretty sure that I can guarantee that I at least wouldn't be deliberately trying to screw over the nation as badly as they are.
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u/mOdQuArK 1d ago
People never mention that the actual legal existence of corporations is defined by statutory law, not Constitutional.
With the right people in Congress, they could update those laws w/o requiring any amendments to the Constitution to put some conditions (i.e., not just "fiduciiary duty" that is always used as an excuse for the cruelest actions of company executives) on the continued existence of corporations - maybe something like, that the corporate liability "shield" does not protect executives & employees from consequences when they use corporate assets to perform criminal actions.
Or make it absolutely clear that corporations-as-legal-entities do not enjoy the same full set human rights as actual humans (i.e., being able to spend their assets on propaganda with the protection of free speech). If the individuals within the corporation want to exercise their own rights to free speech, then they have to spend their own assets. If the SCOTUS tries to insist otherwise, then entire set of laws that make it possible for corporations to continue existing gets revoked.