A nice lovely supreme court decision today, by of course Alito, Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Kennedy, decided, in a nutshell (I don't have time for an in depth analysis - LSAT studying) corporations and unions can donate as much money as they want to a political campaign. Yep that's right. Corporations and unions are afforded the same 1st amendment rights as a human being and they can say what they want and give as much money to whomever, whenever it please them. Heck, if they want to put comericals on for a movie about how horrible Hillary Clinton is without disclaimers or disclosures of donors, in the same month as a elections - well why not? Who cares? What's the big deal? Businesses, after all, have our best interests at heart, don't they? They care about the welfare of the people and the great environmental and social restrictions on them. They wouldn't hire anyone under the age of 8 unless they really, really had to.
How in the G** Da** F***ing world can a corporation be afforded the same rights as an individual? Freedom of speech was given to us so we could speak out against our government without fear of reprisal. Its been subverted for the use and pleasure of the rich.
Watch out peoples. We are going to lose our democracy if things continue to go this way. Corporations are going to rule us. They already do by entertaining us to death, or at least to a point where we don't care about what is going on in the country or the world. Now they just get to choose who's in charge.
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I think that if the bill of rights suddenly applies to corporations as if they are individuals, that all the other laws which we as individuals obey should also now apply to corporations. Except that would overcrowd our prison systems even further...
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