- Flash! The Supreme Court's latest 5-4 decision overturning
the over 60-year-old ban on corporations giving money to political campaigns
is not the end of democracy as we know it, or the onset of fascism in America,
as some of hyperventilating progressives have been claiming.
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- Sure
it's an outrage to say, as the court majority did, that corporations have
the same rights as people. But let's face it: Corporations have long dominated
the American political scene. They didn't need to be free to donate in
their own corporate names. They have had their political action committees
to do the job, and that's worked just fine for them, as witness the current
state of the two pro-corporate parties in Congress, and the string of blatantly
pro-corporate presidents we've had for as far back as I can remember.
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fact, the way I see it, this latest decision is a huge improvement....
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- For the rest of this story, please go to:
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- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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