Conservative Court Approves U.S.A., Inc.
Politics — Posted on January 21, 2010 at 3:32 pmApparently the free market should be so free that it should be free to run the government. That’s essentially the decision of the Supreme Court today in their decision to overturn limits to corporations’ abilities to spend money from their general funds to support or oppose candidates.
Instead of getting money out of politics and recommitting to a government by the people, the people won’t stand a chance in a political system where campaigns are swallowed whole by corporate interests. I laughed at the line that this “will also allow labor unions to participate more freely,” given the plummeting membership and influence of unions in post-industrial America.
The traditional conservative argument for preventing restrictions on corporate campaign spending is that free speech demands that organizations be allowed to spend freely. Money is not speech. Money is money. And money in politics corrupts the politicians’ ability to respond to the people and their demands when those demands are in conflict with the wishes of free-spending corporate donors.
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Kiss the rest of your rights goodbye. I have seen consumer rights and average person’s voices be far out-shouted by organizations with massive cash over the years… this kind of seals the deal: The US Government is now run by the highest bidder…
Remember all that pablum about how we needed Judges who were “Strict Constitutionalists” and weren’t “radicals who legislate from the bench?”
Well they just overturned nearly 100 years of precedent and two prior cases.
Somewhere, in some bunker, Dick Cheney is grinning a cold, heartless grin.
Oh man, the irony is off the charts. Just goes to show that “activist judges” are simply ones who have different views than the accuser.