Reply #73: Whoah with that smugness pal [View All]

I am now trying to read the decision. It is hard going.

All DU angst is on the premise that corporations have more money. so would you be OK with limiting a wealthy individuals in the same way?

Or be OK with the limits on a corporation without much money? (Yes there is such an animal).

It's you who doesn't get the issue. the unions were the great boogieman in the mid-20th century and that is why unions were included in the restriction!

the issue is money. Moveon.org has less $$ that is why we are afraid it cannot influence voters as much as I, t & T. Unions have less money, that's why we are worried.

In the end, we are only worried because the people with more $$, be they individual or corporate or nonprofit or whatever, get to make more ads and air them more often.

The media is saturated and anyone can put their stuff on you-tube now, so the rich people's influence can wane. We have to learn to take advantage of that. The Obama campaign used the internet effectively.