Issue Position: Fighting Corporatism

Issue Position

In an age of great disparities in wealth and its distribution, Susan Heitzman realizes that we are each empowered to change the balance back in favor of good, honest, hard-working people. It has been said that the most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Susan means to challenge the influence of corporate money this fall by bringing her message directly to people who can move it forward to a great many others also committed to change. Conservative politicians work to silence the cries of people struggling to make ends meet, and the money they can tap into may overwhelm the airwaves this fall, but Susan believes that this might be the year that people are prepared to signal their willingness to take a few steps together on a new path forward.

Indiana needs new federal jobs programs, a livable wage, affordable healthcare, debt relief, equal rights and leaders that are on our side. Indiana doesn't need corporate welfare, unnecessary wars, and people in leadership that only pretend to care.

Many progressive individuals, who are leading the charge against corporatism, have chosen to run in the Democratic Party, as has U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. While both major parties have fallen under the sway of corporate domination, it certainly wasn't the Democrats that came up with the idea that corporations are people, nor do Democrats march in lockstep to the demands of corporations for more power over our system of government, the voters, corporate employees, their customers, and finally, their shareholders.

Corporatism - the social and political organization of our nation by major interest groups - has so infiltrated American politics that a large number of us have come to distrust government, in general. Upon investigating why so many levels of our political system have ceased to function properly for our citizens, numerous individuals and organizations have been identified as exerting an undue influence over the American political system on behalf of the multinational corporations and their associates.

It is not government itself that we should hold to blame. It's the fact that there are special interests with dark money "pulling the strings" of our national - and state - governments, and it is they, who we should hold responsible for our disappointing current system of government.

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