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Familiarize Yourself With This Supreme Court Case – Corporations Will Literally Rule the Country if the Plaintiff Wins

September 1, 2009 at 10:36 AM Leave a comment

The Supreme Court will hear a very, very important case next week — breaking from their usual tradition of convening on the first Monday in October.  The case is called Citizens United v. FEC (Federal Election Commission).  The plaintiffs are asking that corporations be treated as people (the court has already ruled that corporations are people) insofar as campaign contributions are concerned.  Today there are restrictions as to how much corporations can give to campaigns.   Citizens United (surely one of the most misleading names in the history of the planet) seeks to remove those restrictions so corporations can give an unlimited amount to a candidate.

Think about that.  The voices of average citizens are already almost never heard because Senators listen to corporate lobbyists and to their largest campaign donors.  Average citizens would most surely be completely silenced if SCOTUS rules in favor of, ahem, Citizens United, because corporations will be able to give millions and millions of dollars to candidates who will legislate in their favor, not in ours.  And average Joes will never be able to run for election unless, unless, they’re in the pocket of corporations because the cost of campaigning will skyrocket — fueled by all that corporate campaign cash.

This is an extremely dangerous situation that will silence us regular folk if, ah, “Citizens United” wins this case, which it just might, given the makeup of the court.

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