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