The Supreme Court of the land, on a vote of 5 to 4 (with all five voting "aye" being considered conservative justices having been nominated to the job by Republican Presidents) has ruled that corporations can donate as much as they want to any political campaign. They are calling it free speech. Man, I love free speech but I have great trouble understanding how a collective like a corporation, made up of a multitude of employees and stockholders can have the same individual right as a single American citizen. Let me be the first to explain that your $25 donation to the candidate of your choice just isn't going to mean much anymore. In a time when elections are won and lost by 30 second TV commercials corporations are going to pour millions of dollars into the coffers of the candidate of their choice and do you really believe those candidates will have independent thoughts? The lowly independently minded candidate with the original thoughts and just our meager donations will be swept away. Americans are easily lead anyway, so I can imagine the excitement the corporations are feeling with the prospect of telling us what to believe. New and improved with added fresh ingredients. John McCain, the Republican Senator from Arizona, who has been championing election reform for years now has thrown in the towel saying that any election campaign reform is now impossible.
It doesn't take much for any of us, no matter our political leanings to realize that with this ruling the same corporate greed that helped destroy the economy will be unleashed on politics. The big money boys will buy and sell political office making ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois look like a man ahead of his time.
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