TOMORROW A BIG DECISION ON OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM. Should corporate spending trump all?
This article in the LATimes lays out the issue very well and is certainly worth the read. The point is that corporations planned to expand their powers through the judicial system a while ago. They have been successful at pushing the idea that their campaign dollars are free speech. The end vision for them is that elections will be determined solely by money and they would by default win. I have written here before on this issue - money is not free speech because money is a unit of measurement in and of itself and free speech is an inalienable, indivisible right that is not quantifiable and shall not be quanitfiable. No one’s free speech is more valuable than another’s.
“Corporations are pitching a bizarre product — a radical vision of the 1st Amendment. It would give corporations rather than voters a centralrole in our electoral process by treating corporate political spending as protected speech. If this vision becomes reality, businesses and other big-money players will spend billions either hyping their preferred candidates or running attack ads against elected officials who don’t support their preferred agenda. Voters will be forced into a couch-potato role, mere viewers of the electoral spectacle bought and paid for by wealthy companies.”
Americans will have a lot of soul-searching to do when the Supreme Court makes their announcement, most likely tomorrow. You can join us in opposing this measure now, so that we can stand up for ourselves and our society and so that future generations can learn from those who stood up against bad decisions for society. Public Citizen is leading an effort against this upcoming decision (if the decision is for corporate spending). — Please sign up for Don’t Get Rolled”
“Corporations are pitching a bizarre product — a radical vision of the 1st Amendment. It would give corporations rather than voters a centralrole in our electoral process by treating corporate political spending as protected speech. If this vision becomes reality, businesses and other big-money players will spend billions either hyping their preferred candidates or running attack ads against elected officials who don’t support their preferred agenda. Voters will be forced into a couch-potato role, mere viewers of the electoral spectacle bought and paid for by wealthy companies.”
Archein