The immediate reaction to the 5-4 Supreme Court decision has been an hysterical description stating that corporations may now contribute unlimited amounts of money to political activities. There was little or no mention of labor unions and political action committees being similarly unburdened.
According to the instant analysis democracy as we know it may be ending or at least taking a turn for the worse.
1. The ruling did not change limits on direct contributions to candidates by corporations.
2. You never know what will happen.
3. To combat a rich person spending a million dollars on politics, get a million non-rich people to each spend one dollar.
Democracy is not a spectator sport. That's the problem with the second demise of fundamental health care legislation in less than twenty years. Most people are not involved, especially mentally. Most are not thinking about it rationally. Special interest groups, fueled by big, soon to be bigger, money, fill the huge void left by the masses. Who is to blame: the fillers or the voiders?
