Corrupt Logic
So, if corporations are legal “individuals” with protected political speech and political contributions are a form of political speech then I want to know when my limited liability protection kicks in… NYT
Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.
The ruling was a vindication, the majority said, of the First Amendment’s most basic free speech principle — that the government has no business regulating political speech. The dissenters said allowing corporate money to flood the political marketplace will corrupt democracy.
Time to kiss what’s left of our democracy good-bye and say hello to corporatism and neo-fascism. This is very, very bad. We’re so screwed.
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