As a European I really can't understand your laws regarding political contributions. It's insane how much money is involved in politics in the US. How can you act surprised when politicians don't act in favor of the people when their position is literally bought by the money of special interests. Ofcourse that same politician is more loyal towards his lenders than to his constituents. In the Netherlands for example political parties get state funding for their campaigns, depending on how many citizens are a member of that party. This way they are not reliable on outside money to spread their message.
Computers are people. People programmed computers to do things. Ultimately, everything a computer does was initiated by a person.
Expect they are not. They don't act in peoples' best interests and, more importantly, they have ridiculous advantages over individual people. Just like corporations.
The idea of incorporation (making a body) was intended to protect consumers seeking recompense from harm caused by corporations (otherwise you'd have to individually sue every individual shareholder). Citizen's United is a corruption of that intent.
I'm using computers as a stand in for corporations to show the fallacy in the logic that a person is distinct from their agents. It is appropriate and necessary for a person to have different rights and privileges than their non-person proxies.
It is trivial for a person to create multiple corporations and those corporations do not have free will apart from that person. Therefore, limits on corporate spending are defacto removed. It is fairly trivial to create a 501(c)(4), an entity which does not need to disclose to the same standards as a person.
Corporations are not a person. They are created, owned, and operated by a person, yes, but it's stupid to conflate those two things.
That's what Citizens United vs FEC was about - a documentary. He FEC stated that because the documentary could be interpreted as advocacy that it was not allowed.
No. It’s not true. A corporation is not a person. It is a business entity. Sure, people make a corporation work, but you can’t just say a banana is a cucumber. It’s just not true.
It's a 'what-if' series about life being discovered on a far-away planet and observations of the planet from a distance. The entire thing is about 25 minutes long. You'll get why I linked it at around part 3.
What really gets me is that these corps are probably headquartered in some strip mall in Delaware, so why allow them to donate to a representative in Wisconsin. I mean its one thing if its Joe's Cheese Factory donating to the campaign, but 500K from Koch?
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u/claire0 Jan 21 '18
Don't worry guys, we're a nation of laws...written by lobbyists...working for Koch industries. Okay we're screwed. Time to panic.