Conservative Political Activism On Supreme Court Threatens Democracy

The Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court is naked Conservative political activism which opens the floodgates for unlimited campaign funding by multi-national corporations. The judicial activism of the high court breaks down the last barrier which has held back for decades the disproportionate influence by the richest few over our democracy.

It turns American democracy into the same system that is used for shareholders who own stock in a company. In that system, you are able to "vote your shares", which means those who have the most dollars invested in the company get the most votes.

With unlimited amounts of money flowing into the political election process, elections and seats in government can be bought and sold like commodities. This is far different than what the founders created, a system that was "one man, one vote", not "one dollar, one vote".

The Conservative activism of the court created something that is simply not found anywhere in the Constitution. The hyper-reactionary court majority dominated by Roberts and Scalia have created a "self-destruct" button for our Democratic system. It changes America from a democracy to an aristocracy made up of the rich and the largest multinational corporations that drowns out the voices of 99% of Americans with unlimited political cash.

The court itself is dominated by the same political payback system that the rich and the Republican party have been cultivating for decades in both the executive and legislative branches.

Acting alone, the activism of the conservatives on the court would not succeed. Eventually the voters would check the radical power grab by the court. However, the conservative bias of the mainstream media, and the outright conservative propaganda of media such as FOX, ensures that American voters are left unaware of this threat to our democratic system of governance.

The Supreme Court's radical decisions also open American democracy to threats from other countries. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been actively soliciting donations from foreign corporations and governments to fund attack ads against Democratic political candidates. These attack ads smear those candidates who fight the outsourcing of American jobs to those same countries that benefit from receiving the jobs. And the circle of money is completed.

The media is mute despite the polls that show over 80% of Americans are against outsourcing of jobs overseas. The mainstream media is adept at displaying it's strong conservative bias by poorly reporting, or not reporting at all, important populist issues - even issues that threaten to end our great American experiment in democracy.

The Citizens United decision makes the American voter the low bidder in the auctioning off of American democracy.

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