Delaware town's effort to let corporations vote stalls

Is it fascism yet?

Recently, city council in Seaford, Delaware, decided to let corporations vote. Corporations would be permitted to vote in public elections in the same manner that people are supposed to be able to vote.

That's fascism. I don't even need to tell you that, because you're smart enough to read this blog. When corporations are declared to be equivalent to people, it's fascism. In fact, this policy would give corporations more power than people have, as voter suppression looms large all over the country.

Jacobin magazine called Seaford's effort "a radical right-wing experiment that cuts at the basic fabric of democracy."

But Seaford's plan seems to have hit a snag as state lawmakers have failed to approve a measure that would allow city council to go forward with its idiocy.

Here's the real bip-up. Seaford already allows property owners who do not even live in the town to vote. This violates the constitutional principle of one vote per person as well as the longstanding protection against property requirements for voting. And get this. A few cities and towns in Delaware already allow corporations to vote. In fact, the manager of numerous businesses in Newark, Delaware, was allowed to vote 31 times - once for each business. Rehoboth Beach allows trusts representing wealthy property owners who do not live in the town to vote - which is exactly the sort of thing I'd expect after hearing about some of the police state totalitarianism in that town.

One of the big problems with the policies discussed above is that they allow wealth to confer special privileges. It could be for rich individuals who own large businesses or fancy second homes, or for faceless corporations like national retail chains that have a store in that town.

This ranks right up there with "the model" that has turned over practically the entire city of Sandy Springs, Georgia, to corporations.

Where are the lawsuits?