This is just going to be a quick blog - I know I haven't done much blogging lately, but life is busy. Being enrolled in two schools and taking public transportation to both reduces me-time considerably.
In any case, I woke up this morning to see (on Twitter, no less) that the spending limits for corporate spending in political campaigns outlined partially in, I think, was the McCain-Feingold Act, though it's been a while since I studied it in AP Government in high school, so I might be a bit rusty on that one.
From what I understand of the recent Supreme Court decision, corporation and labor unions are now able to use their own personal funds to finance political campaigns. With corporations now entering the picture in a tangible and Supreme Court-sanctioned manner, it seems fairly evident that if it wasn't hard enough to do in the first place, this is now an immense blow to the possibility of a rags-to-riches, Cinderella-story political victory.
While I'm fairly sure these groups are still unable to contribute directly to candidates themselves (which would be an even larger can of worms), the ability to produce whatever political issue advertisements during campaign season, and therein the ability to play up wedge issues during this critical period, is just as dangerous.
This move, as I've said already on Twitter, is a move towards drawing an uncrossable line between who is able to effectively participate in politics, and who is forced to simply observe.
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