OPINION:
Recently learning how controls over capitalist systems and markets have made some European nations more competitive, accessible and free — thus further favoring consumers and workers — than North America has left me seeing how we, the latter, are increasingly under corpocratic rule (“Andrew Yang on impeachment: ’This is going to be a loser,’” Web, Dec. 5).
I wonder how the unconventional presidential candidate Andrew Yang feels about the U.S. (and even Canadian) political system. It involves two established conservative and liberal parties more or less alternating in governance while habitually kowtowing to the interests of the very wealthy, especially big business and its threats, either implied or explicit, of a loss of jobs, capital investment and/or economic stability, etc.
And besides the corporate-welfare-check subsidies and the forgiveness of huge loan debts owed to taxpayers, what about the corporate representatives writing bills for governing representatives to vote for and have implemented, often enough word for word? Plus, almost all of our information is still produced and/or shared with us by concentrated, corporate-owned media.
This corpocratic political reality may be why so many low-income citizens perceive futility in voting at all, let alone waiting in long lines to do so.
FRANK STERLE JR.
White Rock, British Columbia
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