Jefferson vs Corporate Aristocracy
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why Jefferson is my hero:
In his day Jefferson saw three agencies that were threats to humans’ natural rights:
all you have to do is look at the wacko religious right, all the non taxing paying corporations ruining the country and the assholes in gove to know he was completely correct
In his day Jefferson saw three agencies that were threats to humans’ natural rights:
- Governments (particularly in the form of kingdoms and elite groups like the Federalists) [/*:m:2kjo2ash]
- Organized religions* (he rewrote the New Testament to take out all the “miracles” so that in The Jefferson Bible—which is still in print—Jesus became a proponent of natural rights and peace)[/*:m:2kjo2ash]
- Commercial monopolies and the “pseudo aristoi,” or pseudo aristocracy (in the form of extremely wealthy individuals and overly powerful corporations)[/*:m:2kjo2ash]
all you have to do is look at the wacko religious right, all the non taxing paying corporations ruining the country and the assholes in gove to know he was completely correct