A Supreme Mistake
a few weeks ago there was a decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court on a subject that didn’t cause a stir before it was voted on. but the storms began churning when the Supreme Court reversed what was a decades old decision that kept corporations from having an unlimited power to donate money to political campaigns.
the justice’s decision paved the way for corporations to donate as much money as they so desire to any political candidate they see fit. their reasoning for it? if they did not allow them to, then they would be going against free speech, which is allowed by the constitution. now I know all of us out here are for free speech, especially myself, yet allowing corporations this freedom is like handing over prey to a lion instead of allowing him to hunt. it will turn campaigns, an already money driven system, into a full out war for the support of the richest corporations. in the language of politics- money equals victory. 95% of the time the candidate with the most money wins, the last times being Obama and Scott Brown of Massachusetts. what’s more is this now allows for any domestic or foreign corporation to display their political interests, potentially letting other countries have an influence on the American government. catch any red flags yet?
so there has been fallout ever since that infamous day. first Obama criticized the Supreme Court (to their faces) about the decision at his State of the Union address, and now it is coming out that, in a rare twist, that BOTH Democrats and Republicans agree the justices screwed up. through all the separation from the past two years between the dems and GOP, they have come to a conclusion with this issue: 85% of Democrats, 81% of Independents, and 76% of Republicans oppose it. so what is it that the dems and republicans both find outrageous about this? special interests.
with allowing corps to dump as much money as they want into the campaigns of politicians, the interests of these companies may be seen in bills passed on Capital Hill. kinda hard to imagine someone giving you a couple mil then acting like you don’t care afterwards. plus, the profits that could potentially be given to politicians by these companies come from people who probably wouldn’t support that politicians ideas. exp: if you are firmly against abortion and bought a car from Toyota, they easily could take the money you gave to them and donate it to a politician who is for it.
the good that comes from this is that, whether we are republican or democrat, left or right, in times like this we still have the capability to say when enough is enough. check out samuel alito and his reaction to Obama callin’ them out. but watch the crowd, and everyone who agreed.
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