Supreme Court lifts Political Funding ban for Corporations!

Jan. 21, 2010.
The United States Supreme Court hands down a decision which lifts the ban on corporate funding of candidates in elections. We have seen in the past that money controls the outcome of elections, and now the corporations can throw as much cash as they want into elections and determine the winner. Today marks the near abolishment of the value of the individual in directing public policy. Welcome to the Corporate State of America.

I want to thank everyone ahead of time for keeping comments somewhat civil. I know that politics gets us all pissed off sometimes, but please keep the personal insults to a minimum & attack the idea presented as much as possible (difficult sometimes I know) instead of the person presenting it. And please don't flame/troll someone just because you think their point of view is idiotic or stupid - you'll never convince them that you're right or that they should reconsider or re-think their view if they can just self-righteously fling back obscenities. Thanks for the discussion everyone.

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[evejc8]

@3684541 For the people by the people you fool. Corporations only care about their profit margin. i.e. 150 billion in bonuses this year dumb ass. They have no place in government. That is called oligarchy, welcome to government 101. Think before you speak

[IloveJesusYesId0]

@3684541 A corp isnt a person you traitor

[rentedhalo]

@JohananRaatz well there's wiggle room & differing views on all political theory as it's essentially philosophy focused on how best to organize our society. i think obama is a fascist in the sense that he is fully supportive of corporatism & classism in this country. he's got a soft spot for the middle class, but he believes the way forward is with corporations more or less where they were during the bush years - he's just keeping a closer eye on them. kind of. obama isn't change enough for me.

[rentedhalo]

@JohananRaatz degeneracy meaning what? please define that. unemployed? homeless? unwilling to work? what? our way of life is part of the problem. we can't continue with the way we're accustomed to - we're taking everything for ourselves (industrialized countries) & screwing the planet for everyone else. we consume so much cheap plastic garbage & cause bloodbaths in other countries to get it. just because we have all the guns doesn't mean that we decide the future. that's how a thug uses power.

[rentedhalo]

@JohananRaatz we do have rules for animal treatment and minimizing casualties but they are not followed &/or they are far too lenient. calling an unborn fetus a person is a misnomer. a person has rights, is self-determining, or has someone who makes those decisions for them. i would think as we are growing in our mother's womb the mother has more rights than the fetus would. banning abortion would infringe on the rights of every woman forced to carry a child to term against their will. tyranny.

[rentedhalo]

@JohananRaatz i know some about fetal development and i do know that the line of suffering is where i draw the law - i don't care about fingerprints or what it looks like or has... but is it capable of suffering? if the fetus can feel pain i would veer away from abortion - but, if they find out before & it would be a bad situation for them and the child would there be no option? we have so many homeless & unwanted children, must we really continue to birth children who's lives might be horrible?

[rentedhalo]

@JohananRaatz the desire to redistribute resources i think is "advanced". the human population striving together for progress for all instead of progress for some or few, while still preserving the earth & wilderness is not a utopia - it's a possibility if we get past old world views. plato was classist if he was anything. his ideas are not flawless by any means, but for the time he was a progressive thinker - the type of people we need now more than ever.

[JohananRaatz]

@rentedhalo (cont.) "fascism = corporate rule (in a nutshell)."

As for fascism. This concept has been notoriously hard to nail down. Even the "fascism = corporatism" concept has plenty of counterexamples. Modern Japan runs by a sort of corporatism but we would not consider them fascist. Even Obama's bailouts could be considered corporatist. Now tea partiers might consider that fascist, but surely you of all people would not agree with them right?

[JohananRaatz]

@rentedhalo "to determine they're own futures,"

Hmm, normally yes. But perhaps our starting points are different. Ever since the 60's the degeneracy has been on the rise.

"i have studied foreign policy, & i disagree w/how"

Ok, let me rephrase that. Anyone who has studied foreign policy and does not want policies implemented which will lead to the destruction of our way of life. If Noam Chomsky had his way, we would be looted by every Latin American socialist on the planet by now.

[JohananRaatz]

@rentedhalo Well the question is, is it? I mean yes a democratic republic is what we were founded on, but it has shifted more and more to a democracy. People don't behave the way they used to. Look up Plato on democracy to see what I mean. The rampant moral relativism and desires for redistribution of wealth is typical of any democracy in its advanced stages.

BTW you may want to look up some stuff on fetal development. It's got all of the organs and even fingerprints by the 6th week.