On Jan 22, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
[According to Juan Cole, though the SCOTUS decision was bad, it won't
change the US _that_ much: US politics won't become dramatically more
corrupt (if that's possible). FWIW, I don't remember US politics being
any more dominated by corporate interests before limits on corporate
campaign spending were instituted than they are today, before the
SCOTUS decision takes hold. But we'll see. ]
Juan Cole wrote:
Of course, I like many social critics am dismayed at the Supreme
Court ruling striking down elements of the McCain-Feinstein
campaign finance reform act, and essentially giving corporations
carte blanche to pay for attack videos against candidates they do
not like and to release them late in a campaign.
I agree. The moment a candidate is promoted by corporate advertising
his opponent's ads need only show that candidate's face with the label
"corporate property" across it.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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