Now that we have the
Citizens United vs FEC ruling by the Supreme Court, it will be even more difficult for people to affect the way government works.
Since corporations can throw megabucks at elections, getting subsidies for corporations rolled back is becoming an evermore remote possibility.
The dissent by Justice Stephens was concluded with perfection:
"At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics."
