Supreme Court hands governance of the United States over to corporations [View All]

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Today the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that corporations can be treated as individuals under the First Amendment, giving corporations as well as unions, the right to pour untold amounts of cash into political campaigns. In essence, the corporations with the most money can now give any amount of money they choose to any candidate they choose to do so during an election campaign.

The decision is good news for conservative Republicans who typically vote for laws that favor large corporations over individuals.

Republicans have successfully complained that Democrats hold all the power with a majority in both houses of Congress along with a Democrat in the White House. They have used the line successfully as shown by the recent Massachusetts election where Republican Scott Brown won Senator Edward Kennedy's senate seat. Many of the voters who planned to vote for Brown in Massachusetts were won over by the idea that there shouldn't be a majority by either party in the nation's capitol. Some voters told reporters that they wanted to even things up in the Senate by sending a Republican, voiding the 2008 election's super majority by Democrats in the Senate.

The problem with the voters' logic is that they bought the Republicans' complaints about a Democratic majority in Washington without considering that there are 3 branches of government in the United States; the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch and the Judicial Branch. And as today's ruling by the Judicial branch proved, the Judicial branch is overtly and explicitly conservative Republican in its majority. The executive branch of the government is held by a Democrat (President Obama). The Legislative branch is held by a Democratic majority (the House and the Senate) but the Judicial branch is held by a Republican majority.