Supreme Court Continued This Week on Its March to Destroy the Nation's Campaign Finance Laws (Juanita Soto 2nd Period)

     In this article Fred Wertheimer informs America of news that will degrade the country into less of a Democracy and more into Crony Capitalism. We used to be able to vote for our favorite candidate, either based on values, or more importantly their policies, but it seems now that process, as well as our vote, will not matter for the coming months and next few years, if they even mattered at all. In the McCutcheon decision, the Supreme Court ruled that spending limits on corporate expenditures on elections, whether they be federal or by state, be lifted so that those with money and power will be able to buy off any politician who does not agree with their own constrained ideology and narrow minded view of the world. This is a form of legalized bribery that only hyperbolizes the state of ruin that our country, once founded by freedom loving men and women that fought to create a better place to live in than the world that they inhabited before the world even knew of an Americas, is heading towards.
     The mere fact that since the Citizens United decision stated that corporations are now people, we've been seeing a surge of donations from millionaires to their political candidate of their choice. Think of it like this: instead of using the law, the Constitution, actual intelligence of any kind, politicians, will now be able to a much greater degree, be sold to the highest bidder like at an auction house, doing their corporate master's bidding without question. They will be paid in funding, parties, as well as other back door deals, instead of listening to us the people. Ben Manski, an American attorney once quoted Thomas Jefferson and reiterated his (Thomas Jefferson's) point in money in politics: "Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Today, instead, the aristocracy of the corporation has grown to full maturity, wielding power over the state and its laws in the service of corporate aims."

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