With Mike last week and how are you today good morning wonderful day here in San Diego that it is that it is doing great I love this down so what are we talking about today well I think certainly the San Bernadino mass occur certainly overrides everything else that s going on in our country right now however tragic that is and for the 1st time since 1920 The New York Times has a full page ad almost full page editorial on their front page and they said this is unprecedented but that they felt that due to the lack of initiative or lack of action by our leadership at the state and federal level they re calling on the nation to be angry over what our leaders have not done about gun violence Pardon me I think that s way to talk about this for progressives is we have to acknowledge that public fear is real and legitimate people are very bad at estimating the chances that they ll be killed or hurt a terrorist attack just like an auto attack or anything else but honestly we have to acknowledg
More corporate state is one of the major threats that we got. We certainly know it was the Citizens United decision in the McCutcheon decision but it didn t start there did it it goes it goes back so I guess the question is Where does democracy in this country or you know give us one of the things that you have to. Recognize in the history of the Constitution and. My necessity the the Supreme Court s interpretation of the Constitution is the way in which. The corporations and entities have been treated under the Constitution and with Citizens United the basic concept there. Is that massive amounts of wealth can be organized in perpetuity under a brand name. A fiction called The Corporation and then that corporation can spend unlimited amounts of that aggregated wealth that individuals have a very difficult time enjoying and drowned out all other voices I mean are we going to agreement that corporations are a threat to democratic and even constitutional government why would see corpora