Quote Originally Posted by Camoron View Post
The Federal government already tells you what to spend your money on, and more importantly (and more relevantly), what NOT to spend your money on.
And your solution to that is to give them more control over your money?

Just because this particular form of "speech" doesn't immediately cause people to get trampled in a stampede doesn't mean it's not irresponsible and destructive. I don't think there's anything more destructive on a large scale for the people in this country than allowing corporations to buy our government and enact laws that allow them to continue widening the economic disparity and erasing the middle class.
The KKK, the neonazis, and the westboro baptist church are irresponsible and destructive. they're also constitutionally protected. They have to be, because we're not just giving lip service to free speech like the european and canadian hypocrites, we actually have it.

Bribery is hard to prove without hard evidence, and corruption begets corruption so even with proof, who would be willing to go against the corporate conglomerate that effectively owns our government?
we'd need honest politicians, which is why it's never going to happen. campaign contributions buy exposure, not votes. The people are still ion control of the electoral process, if they are too dense to look any further than the attack ads on TV then they're getting the government they deserve, and I'm fine with that.