Trick question.
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potential constitutional amendments to establish that corporations do not have the same constitutional rights as human beings and that campaign contributions and expenditures may be regulated
Money or democracy. Thatâs the choice.
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Real democracies always execute people with opinions Donald Trump doesnât like.
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I think that amendment would have a chance.
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âWhenever you empower elected officials or politicians to regulate the public speech, the First Amendment is under attack,â he said.
But letting the Supreme Court deregulate it is just fine, eh, jackass?
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Who knew that within 8 short years, we would be on the brink of losing our Democracy, due to the Citizens United decision.
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Oh AP, you rascals and your rakish false equivilency - allowing âcorporations and unionsâ - as if they had equal power, and werenât being actively targeted by the supreme court
and I appreciate this:
âFor APâs complete coverage of the U.S. midterm elections:â
Iâll take care of it for you and you can just reprint it:
(AP) Many citizens purporting to have the legal right to vote, voted in various districts. In all cases the right candidate won. Voting has occurred in America for many years now.
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after the excision of 45* and pence, this being overturned is my 3rd dearest wish
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I am liking this whole thread. (except tibetancowboy).
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exactly.
Can I dump my garbage on your lawn? No. but corporations can dump it in your air and water.
(not that i would do such a terrible thing to you co)
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Opening the door to a constitutional amendment with the culture who is in power now is frightening.
This corporate power has already polluted our courts.
M. Paul
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This reads like it comes from Junior Scholastic magazine for middle schoolers. Which, upon reflection, sounds about right:
âJunior Scholastic magazine has everything you need to bring current events into your classroom: age appropriate news stories, social studies connections, media-literacy features, and more.â
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i loved getting scholastic magazine and weekly reader when i was a kid
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I think this is a good argument against a Constitutional Convention which a great number on the right are promoting and a few connected to this issue also support. The idea that a convention could be narrowly targeted is without any real basis.
A constitutional amendment overturning the money=speach and corporations=people wold be very welcome.
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When we once again have a favorable government in place, Congress should use its power under the Exceptions clause ( Art. III, Sec. 2, P. 2) to remove matters of campaign funding from SCOTUS constitutional review, making Buckley, Bellotti, Citizens United and other perversions of constitutional intent dead letters.
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Same here. But trying to use actually JS as a teacher in the classroomâYikes! Pretty shallow stuff, even for middle schoolers.
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better 'n highlights
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And thus does the sweating begin
Nice article, Steve.
I just got back from a trip. This morning at breakfast in the hotel, a middle aged couple was seated nearby. Both were focused on their cellphones.
Iâm sure their marriage is fine and all that, and my point is not that people are supposed to ignore cellphones when in proximity to other people.
Rather my first thought was âsocial media.â That they were probably checking up on Facebook or something. My point is the word â social. That word resounded in my mind as I watched these two people. Social?
Thereâs clearly something wrong with pervasive mass communication. Intelligence isnât improving. Thereâs more to say about this complex change than can be discussed here, but my point is that âsocial mediaâ doesnât justify the reasoning behind Citizens United.
Money is not speech of a sort, any more than mass murder at a political rally is speech of a sort. Of course, to a capitalist, money is god. To a spiritual person, however, money is evil.
So, how do conservatives really feel about religious liberty?
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There are proposals throughout the country on state ballots trying to address the mass corruption within our government and political system. Letâs see if it matters to voters as much as mass shootings and pre-existing conditionsâŚif even those matter to them any longer.
Why do people just go with the flow when itâs clearly become a river of abuse and is going to destroy everything if something is not done to stop it? The infrastructure of our democracy is at stake, as well as our healthcare delivery system and bridges/dams.
I get really upset when people say they canât do anything. There is always a way in a democratic republic, but you have to exercise your responsibilities as well as your rights.
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