NYTimes opinion piece advises liberals: Don't fight the corporations

[Alan Hart]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/opinion/sunday/how-liberals-win.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

To paraphrase Claude Raines' great line in the film Casablanca, I'm shocked, shocked!  that some liberal hack writing in the New York Times would advise liberals never to fight the corporations.

Why is such advice even needed? When was the last time liberal politicians really stood up to the corporations? 

Al

"So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal." -- Phil Ochs

[michael pastorkovich]

The author's characterizing past American presidents as anti-corporate is delusional.    Not even FDR was anti-corporate.  His project was to save capitalism and the fact that so many capitalists were too stupid to understand that frustrated him which led him at times to linguistic hyperbole.  The last time an American president stood up to  corporations?  Probably JFK in 1962 when he sent FBI agents to knock on the doors to steel executives after they reneged on a White House brokered deal that they would not raise steel prices if the United Steelworkers agreed not to ask for a wage increase.  The steelworkers went along, but the steel executives raised prices anyway.

[Mel Packer]

I'm not positive, and no great historian, but a cousin of mine said that he heard from his mom who heard from a guy who shared a jail cell with her grandmother (who was well known as a local liberal in Paducah KY), that she once stood up to a small corporation that tried to destroy her moonshine business by selling rotgut at a lower price. 

So there!

Mel Packer