Chula Vista

The Koch brothers told supporters at a retreat this past weekend that they plan on spending $889,000,000 on the upcoming 2016 elections.

Why not just round up to...........

One billion dollars!



Seriously though, Citizens United: Worst Supreme Court decision ever.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

JennyOndioline

Welp, looks like we're headed for a 3rd President Bush.

John Wilkes Booth

i am sort of conflicted. on the one hand, i see why the pragmatic implications of the ruling are negative. on the other hand, it seems perfectly consistent with our form of government and our economic policies.

i have yet to hear a really compelling argument from the left as to how you can justify restricting corporate campaign funding in a free-market oriented society. ultimately they are just making an investment that they think will pay off in some way or another.

i really don't see much of a distinction between corporations funding political propaganda and political campaigns and corporations funding advertising and marketing campaigns. both are just a way to purchase popular influence in a way that will supposedly benefit the organization in question.

the reason why i'm sort of on the fence is because i don't really believe capitalism/democracy is the best way to structure a society. so even though the ruling seems consistent with this model to me, i don't actually hold any real loyalty to the model in question.

Musicwhore A-Z

Our founding fathers never intended the election process to be bought and paid for by billionaires, not to mention doing that without a mandate of full disclosure of the donors. I agree with 'Chula Vista'. 'Citizens United' should be overturned- and soon! Enough said ( ) !!

Xurtio

Maybe. Money doesn't always win elections.

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