Well I just heard that the supreme court has decided corporations have the right to free speech and that congress cannot limit how much money they contribute to political campaigns.
This seriously is the worst news possible for our democracy.
I will write more about this soon but for now my first reaction.
The supreme court has decided that money is equal to free speech and that a corporation has the same rights as a human citizen. So this says the corporations can give unlimited money to influence politics. This means they can buy politicians.
They already have too much ability to influence politics as is obvious in all that Washington is doing today.
But this is TERRIBLE. Everyone should read what the four Supreme Court Justices that voted against this decision wrote. They lay it out. They say this is reckless! They say that corporations can be foreign owned so now China can influence our politics. They point out that the framers of this country believed corporations should be kept under control by the government, not the other way around!
They also point out that unlimited corporate control of politics will destroy our democracy and prevent politicians from doing things that are in the public interest but that would upset the corporations.
Theses 5 justices who made this decision are Republican appointed activist judges who have gone against the ideas of democracy and turned this country into a truly Fascist state!
Fascism in the combining of corporations and government, which we now have, corporate control of our political system.
We needed to reduce the power of corporations in the political arena and now the supreme court has done the opposite!!!
Ouch, deathblow to democracy
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