Today, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress cannot restrict the amount corporations spend on political advertising. They will still be forbidden to give money to favored candidates, but they will be able to spend as much as they want opposing or supporting candidates of their choice. If you think Democrats live in fear of the corporations now, imagine how they’ll react when those corporations unleash millions of dollars of ads against them on a regular basis. Regular people, the contributors who have until now had some impact on candidates and how they think, will not be able to keep up. We will end up with two parties, one of which will gleefully nominate corporate friendly candidates, the other of which will, gleefully or not, ineluctably gravitate toward doing the same. If you think things are Tweedledee-Tweedledum now, just wait a few election cycles.
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