Though this is not meant as an endorsement, I do find the headline of this article first published in the Guardian U.K. to provide a pretty good reason to support John Edwards’ candidacy.

What is interesting is some of the feedback I have gotten in regards to this, and the claims that Ron Paul would actually be the candidate most feared by the Corporatocracy.

There is no question there that Ron Paul would be no fan favorite of the corporate elites. I myself have a fair amount of respect and affinity for Rep. Paul’s principled stances on a number of important issues (though he does appeal to a certain contingent of the American electorate which is rather disturbing. Endorsements from the Aryan Nation don’t exactly get me all warm and fuzzy about someone’s political career).

However, without getting into the debate over who might be more ‘realistically viable’ as a candidate, I would think that in comparison to Edwards, Paul would have some critical deficiencies in regards to this question. The thing about Ron Paul is that he promotes an economic ideology that provides, whether intentional or not, an enriching fertilizer and an open playing field for these criminal entities to operate. Market Fundamentalism is the flag and mantra of the Corporatocracy. Paul’s economic prescriptions have been the basis for the provision of the political leverage that these entities have been wielding since day one, since their earlier dominance at the turn of the last century, to even the basis for the original economic structuring of American political power with the usurpation of the American Revolution by the implementation of a property-over-people’s rights constitution. The mechanism for providing for minority control over majority rule has been the hallmark of the American political structure since day one (it is, in it’s most literal and blatant incarnation, the very essence of the slave state which America was founded as).

The question comes down to, do we live in a democratic society that contains a market economy, or do we live in a market society? Unfortunately, I just don’t see Ron Paul as being capable of making the necessary distinction to that question. And that confusion is exactly what the Corporateers thrive on (though whether Edwards could or even would deliver on his rhetorically charged promises is also another question entirely).

Symptoms over disease. You’ll never be able to cure the disease by supressing the symptoms. And America needs to challenge itself to begin to finally, openly, honestly and meaningfully confront the true nature of the problem by answering this simple question to every aspect of every question we have… “Who Decides?”.

- Andy Valeri, USTV Media