Mary W. Shelley wrote Frankenstein’s Monster (His Backstory) as a cautionary horror story about a scientist who took parts from the dead and reanimated them to create a monstrous and terrifying creature.
Our 21st Century American legal system has created an even more terrifying creature; Corporations with the rights of human beings.
Starting originally as a legal fiction, with limited roles and lifespans, corporations have morphed into insatiable profit-seeking creatures with many of the rights of free human beings but none of
their empathy or compassion.
They have begun to take over our political institutions, with our venal politicians playing the role of puppet to their master.
We must end the current ban on public funding of elections in California if we ever want to put these Supreme Court created genies back in their noisome bottle.