E. J. Dionne’s column in today’s Washington Post covers an issue to which none of us have been paying attention. And it’s an issue that can ensure we’ll never again see an election in America that hasn’t been bought, paid for and totally corrupted by corporations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte... “Judged by the standard of an event's potential long-term impact on our public life, the most important will be the argument before the Supreme Court about a case that, if decided wrongly, could surrender control of our democracy to corporate interests.
This sounds melodramatic. It's not. The court is considering eviscerating laws that have been on the books since 1907 and 1947 -- in two separate cases -- banning direct contributions and spending by corporations in federal election campaigns. Doing so would obliterate precedents that go back two and three decades.
The full impact of what the court could do in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has only begun to receive the attention it deserves. Even the word "radical" does not capture the extent to which the justices could turn our political system upside down. Will it use a case originally brought on a narrow issue to bring our politics back to the corruption of the Gilded Age?”
Given the recent history of today’s Supreme Court, they have consistently put corporate interests over individual interests. If they do so again this week, we could very well be screwed beyond repair.
We don't get a say in their decisions. So the question is, if they decide to once again sell us out, what do we do next?
