Just when President Obama, forced by the result in the Massachusetts Senate election, showed his desperation by belatedly tapping into the public's rage against the big banks, the Supreme Court rendered the most far-reaching decision in more than 100 years. It said, in its usual politicized 5 to 4 vote, that corporations can give unlimited amounts of money in order to directly interfere with elections by running advertisements for or against candidates right up to the actual date of the election.
In my opinion, this ruling places the final nail in the coffin. In this, the United Corporations of America, big business will now be free to choose the candidates of its choice. Those politicians who play along will be rewarded; those who don't will be severely punished. While the Ambien-induced electorate sleeps on in what has become a corporate nation, democracy as we know it has been abolished.
January 23, 2010