To The Editor:

Joan Patterson wrote a perceptive letter (3/18) about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to call a corporation a person for the purpose of political speech. When this news came out its significance was overshadowed by things like unemployment and Middle Eastern affairs. This decision ties into the economy and the Wisconsin debate over collective bargaining.

We have seen a tendency of the high and mighty around the world to separate the classes into two widely divergent parts. The Middle Class is becoming a minority under siege. I have seen the various parts of this social warfare gradually come into place and it is becoming more evident every decade.

Conservatives who hate labor unions claim that they make too much and the contrast becomes more believable when the economy sours and the non-union labor falls far below.

Let me finish by saying that I lived when labor was too powerful and owned the Democrat Party just as the Corporations now own the GOP. I also maintain that now both parties fail to serve the falling lower class of labor as they play the same Wall St. games.

First manufacturing technology was taken to poor nations like China and called detente (for the peace) at the time when China had little military power of their own. The Wall Street explanation for this was lower consumer costs but it was really about lower labor costs.

Where corporate owners could not get slave labor here anymore they made deals with the governments where people were starving to build consumer goods with labor cheaper than robots. Never mind that those governments were oppressive, corporate kingpins wear blinders while politicians championed human rights here as if they were achieving progress abroad.

It is clear that corporate interests have overshadowed the moral obligation of our diplomacy to stop dealing with corrupt dictatorial tyrants in the territories that the Allies divided up into “nations.”

The obvious reason why some conservatives love the idea of unlimited corporate political advertising is to gain absolute control of American politics. Political consultants believe and preach that money converts to votes through the time honored process of creating images to believe in; regardless of their philosophies.

Organized Labor works to benefit organized labor first and un-organized labor last. Meanwhile the top echelon of American politics fears corporate influence regardless of party. Let’s hope that the Tea Party would break for the people’s need to restore jobs above minimum wage instead of bashing organized labor.

So how long will we fall for professional political speech? Let’s consider opposing views. Let’s use comparisons to overcome packaged commercial image building and question everything.

John Miller

Lehigh Acres