Didn't you know? We've lived in a plutocracy for some time now. This just makes it official.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/mccutcheon-decision-campaign-finance-040214
The remarkable story of how we have come to privatize
political corruption in this country reached another milestone today as
the Supreme Court, John Roberts presiding, handed down its decision in
McCutcheon v. FEC, effectively demolishing the aggregate, two-year limit
on contributions by individuals, and taking a big chunk out of Buckley v. Valeo,
the misbegotten 1976 decision that got the ball rolling in the first
place. It was a 5-4 vote, with the court split exactly as it had in the Citizens United case. In writing the opinion for the court,
Roberts further emphasized the equation of money with speech, and also
seemed to agree with Anthony Kennedy's famous assertion in Citizens United that the ability of megadonors to shovel gobs of money into the election process,"We
now conclude that independent expenditures, including those made by
corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of
corruption."
Sad to me, how I find the opposite to be true.
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