Cititzen's Uniteed vs. Federal Election Commission (corporate subterfuge and greed invariably shapes politics)

Elections Policy Trump US Politics January 21, 2010

The Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is a controversial decision, that reversed century-old campaign finance restrictions; and with it - enabled corporations and other outside groups to spend unlimited money on elections. Translation: pay-to-win election campaigns, corporate over-reach and expansion of corporate interest into politics and clear heavy abuses of power, corruption, and duplicitious highjacking/re-shaping of: societal, political, and governmental discourse and undeniable and pervading sense of "taxation without representation"; corporations receive all the same rights as People (consider origin/etymology; individuals/citizens; but since the entity is a collective one, corporations receive all the same rights and privileges as (we the) People (consider origin/etymology) - but with one fundamental difference: "all the rights and priviledges, with zero accountability/responsibility; at worst: judicial dissolution - with literal individual actors held to account; besides, money buys power/protection/immunity and establishes the two-tier justice system between "haves" and "have nots" that we see today.

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