Seriously.
Corporate personhood is a myth that should have been left as what it is --- an affront to and abuse of real free speech --- but the five most conservative supremes have now made it flesh, pulled the financial gloves off the corporate-political shills, and elevated lobbyists to rock-star status. In fact, lobbyists might become unnecessary middlemen as they'll no longer be needed to link corporations with their politician-toadies.
Up until now, subservience to corporate masters and the power of their cash have been pretty much kept in the background, pretty much, but now they'll be right out in the open, the veil of all pretense will be lifted, and may the largest checkbooks, the deepest pockets, the most venal greed, win. This is the political equivalent to removing the salary cap from professional sports teams: "the owners" are free to buy whomever they want, and to pay the most for them. Winners will be the richest.
Many in congress should be relieved that they'll no longer have to move in the shadows as they pocket the cash that will be shoveled (hell... bulldozed) their way. The loudest, cruelest, most hateful, well-financed voices will shout down reasoned arguments.
The only good news from this may be that (A) the truth about who actually runs things in the U.S.A. is now entirely out in the open, (B) there are no more special interests, because there's nothing particularly special about spending gobs of money: anyone with gobs of money can do it, and (C) these same gobs of money will be greedily scarfed down by hungry television ad executives starving for the milk of ad money during the economic downturn. Everyone wins, that is, everyone who matters wins.
So, you think reality-TV is a pain? The new reality will be all-agenda TV, all the time.
Corporations are not real people; the real people are about to get screwed; and the revolution will be privatized.
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