Mitt Romney's impassioned defense of corporate personhood should become the new GOP Presidential Candidate litmus test, supplanting no taxes on the wealthy and life-of-the-unborn as something the entire GOP can easily rally behind.
I was struck, watching the clip of Mittens going to-to-toe with incredulous fair-goers in Iowa, at his true, heart-felt beliefs in the sanctity of the corporate person. Particularly so since I've never seen this Suit-and haircut ever display a heart-felt belief in anything before today, except perhaps in his burning desire to be President of these United States.
From his Cold!Dead! Lips! to Mitt's ears..
For those of you not familiar with the movie "Soylent Green", it depicts a not-so-distant future where the Earth's population hovers at something over 10 billion [due, no doubt, to a GOP Presidential victory in 2012 and absolute takeover of the SCOTUS from that moment forward]. The uber-rich live in gated communities not unlike the islands of privilege of today that are woven through the fabric of our decaying infrastructure. There is a working class that inhabits ghettos throughout the sprawling megalopolis, those who perform the menial tasks and necessary deeds to keep the system from imploding.
The vast majority of people are homeless, jobless, living in shelters, over grates, in hallways that reek of excrement and death. The masses are kept occupied and pliant by spending most of their days waiting for handouts of food from the government. The food is provided to the government by the Soylent Corporation, and is derived from various 'miracle' advances in agriculture, zooculture, fish-farming, and something else..
Anyway, if you haven't seen the flick you should--best thing Charleton Heston did after "Touch of Evil".
Mitt Romney, on the other hand, wasn't acting [for once] when he made his bold assertion and defended it in Iowa today. Can you blame him? There is SO MUCH evidence everywhere he looks that he is right:
there's this..
I am sure each of us can think of other examples to prove Mitt Romney is correct.