Reminding the High Court That Money Isn't Speech

THE RECENT DISCOVERY that one half of all the money spent thus far on the U.S. presidential campaign has come from a mere one hundred and fifty eight families is shocking, partly because the amount already spent is enormous, and its still early. Can you imagine how much money will have been spent by November of next year? Plus, of course, the fact that America is owned, controlled, governed, and exploited by such a small number of people is absolutely horrifying. The only thing lacking is the absolute despot at the very top. Give us time. The typical conservative reaction is: "a lot of that money is going to democrats too!". hardly helpful or illuminating, but true. More proof that the two political parties are merely two branches of the same one; the party of wealth and property. Is this what we really want? Or would we rather pass a new law: "The sale and purchase of political advertising is prohibited"? We're not talking about free speech here; we're talking about bought and paid for speech, which, like all forms of speech, if one of us has, all of us should have. So, make it free. A million dollar a minute TV advertising aint free speech, pure and simple, and thus, such a law would not be an infringement of free speech, or unconstitutional. Except for the unfortunate fact that the U.S.Supreme Court has ruled, in all its black robed wisdom, that money is speech, however that works. So, the other thing we need to do is reverse the Citizens United Supreme Court decision of 2010. Recently the court ruled in favor of gay marriage, probably because the majority masses of Americans were demanding it, and not because of any constitutional reason, since there is nothing in the Constitution about gay marriage. So, if we want to end the corruption in politics brought about by the court, by getting the court to reverse itself on its ridiculous ruling that money is speech,, maybe a little demonstrating and protesting in the streets of America, or a lot of it, would do the trick.