corporate political donations unleashed: step 1?
Today the U.S. Supreme Court granted corporations the right to unlimited spending on federal campaign contributions as reported in the Huffington Post.
As has been noted ad nauseum, corporations primary interests do not usually match up with the best interests of human beings. In that light, this is a bad decision which leads one to forecast a tilt toward corporate interests in the federal political sphere (or more accurately, a greater tilt toward corporate interests).
As long as we’re granting corporations more of the rights originally granted to citizens in this country, why not just go ahead and grant corporations the right to run for public office directly? This would eliminate the middleman, the humble politician, who could save face by not having to apologize for passing legislation pushed by his corporate bosses. The corporations could just write their own laws, and pass them directly. The biggest debates would result from the conflicting interests of various corporations. Although with bigger and bigger monopolies, that might be less frequent than would occur in a “free market”.