If
you're normally not a fan of the Daily Show or of Jon Stewart, for
whatever reason, please... set that aside just this one time and watch
last night's (April 3rd, 2014) opening segment on SCOTUS's ruling this week regarding
McCutcheon v FEC.
This ruling is not a Left-Right issue. It's a central
issue of fairness.
If money is free speech, as SCOTUS has ruled, then fewer than 700 ridiculously rich people in the USA
have just been allowed to use their ginormous, giga-watt sound systems
to project their "free speech" far and wide, while the rest of us are
left to one vote, to one voice.
We all took an American History class at
some point in our lives. Who among us ever read that gobs and gobs and
gobs of money in politics was a good thing?
Democracy took a
big hit this week, and the decision to hit it now and with the 2010
Citizens United v FEC ruling, was made by a handful of people who were
appointed, not elected, to their positions, but who have managed to make
the term "free speech" oxymoronic and ironic.
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