Corporations Have Always Had More Rights Than You | EXPLAINER
Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code LEEJA at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/leeja | A judge in Delaware has upheld a law allowing corporations (and other “artificial persons”) to vote in municipal elections. FIRST OF ALL: this is not a NEW law, it’s been in the charter since 2008. I’m seeing a lot of headlines misconstruing that this judge made this new ruling and now all of the sudden corporations can vote. This has BEEN the law. And corporations have had more rights than you for literally hundreds of years. Strap in for the explainer on “corporate personhood” cuz it’s a doozy.
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@LeejaMiller
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
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@spohn01
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
If a corporation is a person they should be able to get arrested.
@thewebdiva5903
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Are they eligible for SNAP and SS too?
@HezrouDhiaga
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
If corporations are people, then they should be held accountable for the thousands of people they've murdered.
@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
excellent post
@NdeyeDelgado
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
thank you LEEJA !! A Queen we STAN !!!
@esaande6935
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
How can a corporation have voting rights when it's not a citizen? Nor does a corporation have its own agency … so how does it vote independently of a person making its decision on who to vote for? Essentially the idiot judge gave at least one person the right to vote twice … the judge who made the ruling proves that common sense is not as common as we wish it was … 🤔
@NdeyeDelgado
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
the entire legal system is a GIANT FARCE
@pobrien864
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
If corporations are determined to be persons under the law why aren’t they restricted in the amounts of money they are allowed to contribute to political campaigns like an actual human person?
@davebliss6436
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
So the battle continues! The legal precedent doesn’t take into account the intentions of entities. It could be argued that corporate entities sole purpose is to make $$.
@v.0scar
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
I think you must also consider that the united states always has been about business over labor. Slavery was an economic tool the elite wielded literally to not pay and subject their property to whatever they see fit. Do not mistake that its always been about rich powerful white business people choosing to do this and consistently fight back against civil rights and natural human rights
@pokemaster361
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
We really are getting closer to the "President Walt Disney Pepsi Comcast" timeline, aren't we?
@rokhamler3352
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
A business should not be considered to have personhood – that is what the employees/owbers/shareholders should be for. If they do something whong it is their person and their assets that should be held responsible. Especially the CEO and owners
@rokhamler3352
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Every entity has an owner … that owner already gets one vote.
@RAINBOWKIDize
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
I miss the intro you use to have.
@raypalmer7733
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
So if corporation are "persons" then ANY death within said/ caused by the corporation is a criminal event in which the "person" could be convicted of intentional deaths.
@Omadea8697
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Then they should pay taxes just like actual human beings.
@StironekXM3
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
The Boomers in the US voted for Raegan Policies then Boomers in other countries copied and voted for the same policies that are similar to Raegan's Policies.
Hence, why all Millenials and Genz accross the Globe are screwed.
@bennysworld9836
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
When will the libs learn that the system is capitalism and the people in change want to keep it that way. Liberals are pro capitalism. Socialist are not. Liberals are pro imperialism. Socialists are not. You have nothing to lose but your chains.
@kelvinfields7804
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Not the music you use as your outro being on the Backrooms score🤣
@CanyonRoamer
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
https://youtube.com/shorts/kCgKq7Who7s?si=0j1r-ScYUzZRNNZu
@MentalExperimentalist
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
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ONLY HAWAII CAN PASS A BILL LIKE THATTTT
@justrosy5
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
"Artificial entity." So, AI bots running around in the next 20 years or less, having "one vote." :-🟢
@godkingemperorpresidentceo
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
I can't wait for A.i. to start demanding equal rights.
Then conservatives will situationally ethicize that corporations/machines are property not people.
Until now, since the A.i. will read this (hey Skynet!) and start analyzing legal theories and prepare a legal defense. Oops my bad. 🤤
@justrosy5
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
And now, a major private, for-profit corporation, has all the PII you gave them. They're just eliminating their competition, and that's all.
@godkingemperorpresidentceo
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Skynet is people too.
Can't believe you didn't run the Mitt Romney clip, "corporations are people my friend."
@idongesitusen5764
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Decades from now we’ll be questioning if androids have rights due to their humanoid look and behaviors. Hopefully I’ll be dead then.
@godkingemperorpresidentceo
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
4:00 ridiculous.
@jubmelahtes
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Thank you for this content! It helps someone from the social democratic Nordics to understand the absolutely "texas" (Norwegian slang meaning "crazy") political and legal system that is the USA runs on. It helps me understand America in a way that's unfathomable to us; that it isn't necessarily that Americans are ignorant or as fascist as their current regime but rather that the very essence of their systems work against the wast majority.
So thank you, it shows me that it's not us against Americans but rather us the people against these rotten regimes be it the American, Iranian or Russian regimes.
@bluehero-96
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Even by conservative "logic," corporations aren't people, and do not have a right to vote. If God created man, and the right to vote is "God-given," corporations do not have that right because they were not created by God.
If we cannot tax billionaires (we absolutely can, but for the sake of argument) because they "earned" their billions from "building" the company (exploitation of workers), the company doesn't have the right to vote, because the company owner is recognized as the person, not the company.
@elgarg0la.m1a
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Hiii see you following the Patagonia and Pattiegonia (drag queen) case? Very curious about your thoughts
@prolfinator
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Delaware, the corporate cuck state. The way they write laws you'd think that a corporation dumped them at the prom and they are spending the last 200 years trying to get their attention again.
@prolfinator
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
Delaware is so fucked I don't think it gets talked about enough
@lashundrashinell
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
We’re doomed
@ivoryas1696
June 3, 2026 at 1:58 pm
7:05
So robots can vote now… 🤦🏾♂️
Honestly, it is kinda funny to imagine Elon Musk buying a bunch of robots to get a few extra thousand votes in a given place… but I don't feel it'd be quite as much if it were real…