Supreme Court hands America to corporations

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Why don't they just say, "The company with the most money now gets to run America" and be done with it?

Because running a nation isn't _profitable_, unless it's the Congo or something. It's much simpler to just maintain enough control over politics to get what you want, while letting the ambitious idiots take credit for all the fuckups.

In a related story, Republican constituents are too busy crowing about the teeth being taken out of McCain-Feingold to notice how boned they are.

gaijinguy wrote:

Hey, Bamshalam, isn't this about the point where you interject to inform us how the Common Law system protects us from the evil tyranny of the majority?

Of course, because every one of my arguments can be applied to vastly different topics and still apply!

Oh wait, they can't and you're stupid for trying.

*adjusts his glasses*
The majority of the fuck-up's that happen usually are blamed on politicians though.

Chaltab wrote:

What I'm not clear on is how much power this is actually going to give entities with large amounts of money. I mean they can run whatever ads they want, but if the ads aren't factual then there are plenty of news organizations on the right and the left dedicated to debunking false information from the opposing side. For all the flack Newsbusters and Media Matters receive, they do serve a purpose.

About the only change I can see is now Big Business doesn't have to hide behind lobby groups and PR Firms when they want to reach out and crush someone. (Hey, there's that "transparency" we've heard so much about!)