Justices Decide 5-4 Future Elections Will Go to the Highest Bidder
By Jeremy R Whittaker

One week ago today something truly sad happened to our republic. By a 5-4 vote justices in the supreme court decided that for profit corporations can spend as much much as they want on our elections. You can say America is no longer the same with this ruling. The floodgates of funds from the companies that most despise has opened. Exxon mobile, JP Morgan, and the likes have tightened the noose on our democracy.

Nobody can argue that Barack Obama did not have an advantage in the 2008 elections. He started the largest grassroots campaign in history for president of the United States. For that he was awarded small donations from 3.95 million individuals around the country. This is the way elections are supposed to be funded. By individual Americans. We the people elect the president. Not corporations or foreign entities.

That being said anyone who follows the election process knows how important having funds are. Hillary Clinton over spent during her campaign and ran out of money. This during her final months was a huge blow to her campaign and rightfully so. If you can convince individuals that you are the right person for the job they donate to your campaign. This gives you a larger national platform to speak from. What happens now that corporations enter this race? They will dwarf donations made by individuals. This means that whichever candidate is the friendliest to the largest corporations gets the most money.

This means that what you say about your opponent need not even be true. You must have to buy more air time on TV then them. If you repeatedly bash your message into voters head they will inevitably cave. Hearing something over and over again believing it is the truth. Based on this we must now accept that Barack Obama is palling around with terrorists. Or at least that's what Sarah Palin would have you believe. Given enough money to blanket the airwaves I'm sure she could convince the majority of the country that this is indeed true. Or perhaps as some of have suggested that Obama is not a United States citizen. All obvious lies.

If you don't believe me perhaps you should look at the poll numbers of the percentage of Americans that think Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when we invaded them. Or the poll numbers of Americans who thought Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 9/11. Oh yea and I forgot to mention Obama is a radical muslim from Indonesia. Or who could have forgotten the first claim that Obama does not put his hand over his heart during the pledge of allegiance? All outright lies. But once pounded into our heads through media and other outlets in the future they will simply be accepted as truths.

I cannot agree more with justice Stevens who said the majority had committed a grave error in treating corporate speech the same as that of human beings. For our political system in America has been turned upside down. Now all we can do is sit back and wait to see the billion dollar industries ravish our political system. It will simply be a bloodbath of honest politicians.

We must ask ourselves how did we get into this predicament. It's easy, his name is George W. Bush. To add insult to injury after he destroyed our economy on the way out and appointed two lifetime judges to the supreme court. Samuel Alito and John Roberts. They now have the rest of their lives to overturn common sense laws and destroy our country with their right wing views. We can only sit and wonder what they will do next. The ruling in question was Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08-205.

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