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I get about 20 emails a day from the Washington Post. One just came in that informed me thus: Democrats and Republicans agree on something besides the sky being blue on a sunny day.
“Americans of both parties overwhelmingly oppose a Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations and unions to spend as much as they want on political campaigns, and most favor new limits on such spending, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
“Eight in 10 poll respondents say they oppose the high court’s Jan. 21 decision to allow unfettered corporate political spending, with 65 percent ‘strongly’ opposed. Nearly as many backed congressional action to curb the ruling, with 72 percent in favor of reinstating limits.
“The poll reveals relatively little difference of opinion on the issue among Democrats (85 percent opposed to the ruling), Republicans (76 percent) and independents (81 percent).”
Does anyone remember this bit? I know it’s been a really, really long time since it happened. Here’s how I reported it in Planet Waves on Jan. 22, less than one month ago:
“Last week’s solar eclipse in Capricorn conjunct Venus is showing some ramifications in the corporate/government realm covered by that sign. Thursday the Supreme Court issued a decision in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The 150-page decision, we’re being told, grants the rights of individuals to corporations, originating in the matter of whether companies can pour money, unfettered, into propaganda designed to sway an election. Previously, this was subject to campaign laws that kept such electioneering a few feet back from the election itself.”
By a few feet, I mean that some company you’ve never heard of, or which is owned by some company you’ve never heard of, used to not be able to come into your town or city and pound the airwaves the night before an election trying to get rid of your local congressional representative because he or she is against, say, the toxic pollution created by that company, in your town. We’re not supposed to be able to buy elections in the United States, though it’s long been a kind of boxing match of cash; this ruling takes the gloves off, and allows the use of weapons in the ring.