Captured · the Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy

- Authors
- Whitehouse, Sheldon
- Publisher
- New Press, The
- Tags
- politics
- ISBN
- 9781620972083
- Date
- 2017-02-21T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.42 MB
- Lang
- en
In *Captured* , U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer’s *Dark Money*.
Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled by corporate powers. *Captured* reveals an original oversight by the Founders, and shows how and why corporate power has exploited that vulnerability: to strike fear in elected representatives who don’t “get right” by threatening million-dollar "dark money" election attacks (a threat more effective and less expensive than the actual attack); to stack the judiciary—even the Supreme Court—in "business-friendly" ways; to "capture” the administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution's last bastion for ordinary citizens; and to create a corporate "alternate reality" on public health and safety issues like climate change.
*Captured* shows that in this centuries-long struggle between corporate power and individual liberty, we can and must take our American government back into our own hands.