An overload of information trivializes each fact, but how to decide which facts are
more important? Citizens United is the worst decision by the Supreme Court since
the Dred Scott decision that allowed Southern slave holders to travel north and
capture their runaway slave and drag them down back to the horror that they fled.
Corporate personhood and the notion that money equals free speech are the worst
ideas since slavery being considered a God-sanction institution. After all, it’s in
the bible.

Constitution: ” 1 representative per 30,000…”
Currently: 1 rep per 650,000. Is it any wonder why
influence peddling is so damned pervasive…and easy??

Maybe I’m just naive…More representation would seem
to change the entire scope of our hyperbole strained,
rapacious political arena.

if only we-the-people directly chose our representation…
but many get selected through corporate-political arrangements…
that calculate which candidates and where those votes shall hail from…
then sales hype picks voters who buy into and convey them!...

Now the official proclamation money is speech and corporations are people, is just one more nail in the coffin of disenfranchisement. This must be how it looked during the 1930’s when Mussolini floated to the top!

This is despotism where the few,  the wealthy (not all mind you) take the cream and leave the chaff, Trickle down working like it was intended.

Clear attack on populous majority, a government bought and sold to the highest bidder, the only way to reverse the trend is to get the money out, which is like a mouse telling a fat cat to stop drooling and looking at him like that!

Super Packs are only one part of the plan or problem, wait and see what Romneys ‘are people too my friend’  have in store for the real people, maybe they will be making Iphones right here in the USA instead of China!

So I guess superPACs are the Supreme Courts answer to the peoples call for campaign financing reform.

What an bass ackwards country we live in.

SuperPACs are already changing the game just as
Citizens United helped spur the tea party wins in
2010. Already, I’m receiving e-mails from Obama to
send support because the Democratic teams won’t be
able to get as much support from the 1% as the
opposition. So Obama needs the people out of work to
ante-up to balance the incoming PAC money from
billionaires. It may happen again for him. But
people, even liberals, seem a bit stunned. These
aren’t the good old days.

So imagine President Mitt and a host of new drunk-on-
Kool-Aid tea party Republicans ready to fix America
for good. And they too will be met with an army of
lobbyists telling them what to do. They too will
become the crony capitalists that they say they are
against. Then what? Ten more years even worse than we
had with Bush? By then, we won’t be able to recognize
our country. It won’t be ours any more.

Mention of ‘the unions’ in the same breath as ‘the corporations’ is useful in that it shows that the speaker or writer is either a shill or a dimwit.

one cannot expect an education from any MSM columnist. and we only have MSM
columnists on this site; so, brace yourself and expect from each one of them
continuing assault on sanity, justice, truth, basic human rights, etc. thanks

“unlimited amounts of money from unions?”

I opted to deny my union the 2 cents per hour PAC checkoff years ago, since I don’t always agree with them on their choices. 

Many of my fellow tradesmen also deny our local union proxy funding.  We do occaisionally hold a raffle for some of the local politicians who support organized labor.

Obama-  Goldmann Sachs
Romney- Bain Mutual
White Romney
Black Romney

Mention Rocky Anderson? Mention Jill Stein or Roseanne Barr?

Heavens forbid. The money from the 501c3 Industrial Complex would be unhappy..

Rocky Anderson for president

One has to be addicted to TV for those idiot Rovian et. al. Inc., ads to reach them.  Or to Facebook, or some comparably moronic socially transmitted disease, printed or audio/video.

It is not at all clear who the article’s intended audience is/was.  But if it was aimed, as appears, at reporters, it is a sad day in the US when that becomes the “thinking persons” of the nation.  Few of them have any thoughts that matter to more than a few of us.  Who among the whole class has the education to even imagine what our collective interests might include?

If they could imagine that, they would not write reams of light chatter about meaningless electoral antics and foibles.  They would focus on the contrast between the character of leadership our nation needs (who writes about this?  Does anyone outside the reactionary bozos even think it might matter?) and the character of each individual candidate.

If we had a reporting class including more than a terribly few thinkers, Gingrich would still so much the laughing stock of the world he would take his jowly nonsense back to Georgia and quietly fade into the ground.

If the reporting class had more than a few thinkers, Robert Scheer would not look like a Cassandra in the wilderness when he takes on Obama’s pandering to Geithner’s pandering to Wall Street.  Where are the thinkers who remotely compete with Chris Hedges in reporting about the Occupy movement?

Okay, you can say that Robert Reich and a few others are over at HuffPo.  But that is small consolation; that blog has reduced itself to a blob of nonsense more base than the National Inquirer.

Please, help us find the thinkers so we can read their writings.

WTF are you talking about Boytardsky? Unions being mentioned in the same sentence as the uuber wealthy and corporations with contributions to “super pacs”?

Wake the fuck up and stop spreading neo-con propoganda about how much money the big scary unions have. Less than of the us workforce is unionized, with most of them being public sector workers. The Unions have been chopped off at the knees by repugs and DINOs for the past 40 years. Its why real wages have not gone up and benefits have disappeared. The wealthy started waging class warfare in the 1970’s and the first shot fired was directly at the Unions. They knew that if unions were crippled, the political power of the middle class would wither on the vine.

In 1960 and 1964, unions decided who was in the white house and who controlled congress. This time it will be a group of about 200 to 300 billionaires and some multinational corporations that decide the political fate of 320 million americans. Better start looking around for Jonathon E, cause we are about to begin living the movie “Rollerball”.