So, can you list other countries that have similar policies to what SCOTUS gave us?

[Kablooie]

It would give us a nice preview of what we are in for.

[scheming daemons]

1. Italy, circa 1936 to 1945

[grillo7]

7. I'm surprised this isn't being mentioned more n/t

[sandnsea]

2. The US, before Theodore Roosevelt n/t

[scheming daemons]

4. Interesting the the most populist Republican and most populist Democrat were cousins

We need another Roosevelt.... either a Teddy or a Franklin will do.


Both of them took on the robber barons and powerful interests.

[Vidar]

8. Amen to that!

[Kablooie]

5. That might not be too similar. They didn't have mass media influencing votes like we do.

[sandnsea]

6. The media then was worse

There was absolutely no pretense of fairness or accuracy in the media. Pretty much each town of any size had a Republican and Democratic newspaper, often owned by major party backers. The editors had better write what they were told, or they'd be looking for a new job.

If the SCOTUS decides we have no right to legal protection from labor abuses, it'll be 1890 before you blink twice.

[DJ13]

3. Not recent

[Broke In Jersey]

9. I believe over 20 states have similar policies.

I read somewhere that in state elections that corporate money can be used as in this SC decision in about half of states. One being Oregon. Sorry but I don't know the specifics on this.

[groundloop]

10. Has it occured to people that when the Bill of Rights was crafted there were no mega corporations?

I can't believe that those who drafted the Bill of Rights ever dreamed of how huge corporations would become.

THEREFORE, I can't believe that they intended for their work to be interpreted this way.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

11. This is why you're not the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS

Using that brain of yours and thinking things through and stuff! Pshaw! Just do as the nice man in the suit tells you to do!

[Kablooie]

15. You forget Walmart. Walmart was everywhere in 1780.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. According to Barney Frank on Rachel....

No other country must have free speech because no other country, that he knows of, allows corporations to get involved in their elections.

[kenny blankenship]

13. America is the exceptional country -no other country really has free speech

because they have the government there decide who gets free speech (puny humans) and who doesn't (productive, life-giving corporations). That's why we're so great!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

14. What would you expect from the French?!

Cheese-eating surrender monkeys with SOCIALIZED HEATLTH CARE!!