If it happened these days, Nixon could have gotten away with it just by saying he denies it and he does recall. Nixon would be all set since times have changed since him.
Free speech for corporations and super wealthy is disenfranchising “we the people” if free speech means funding campaigns. We have lost our way as a nation. We need to rethink what free speech is (carefully) or we risk being further disenfranchised. We certainly need to rethink how campaigns are financed. We the people need to take back what is ours.
Seriously, does he also think we should allow Big Tobacco to advertise to "inform" the public? Has he no concept of the quid pro quo nature of campaign spending and public policy? He's either delusional or he's a shill for the corrupt, rent-seeking rich.
He is a lawyer and he will make whatever argument the judges will buy regardless of logic or ethical considerations. In this case five conservative leaning judges bought it so now corporations can buy as much influence as they can afford; much like diary lobbyist group gave to Nixon and then Nixon went on to raise the price milk, back then it was a scandal now it is business as usual.
Corporations literally start with the prefix "co" meaning joint/jointly. So how can the Supreme Court decide that it's just like an individual when by its very definition a corporation is a collective?
10:34 Same would apply to Roe vs. Wade then. If Citizen's United has to be accepted without objection, then all Supreme Court decisions should be, yes?
Excellent Video! It shows once again that well intended Policies often have the wrong and unintended Consequences. It also proves that it is about Culture and not Law. The Depth of Corruption depends on the Morals that Society has internalized. Remember "Greed is good"? Greed is an universal Problems, but American Policies and the Structure of Society and the political System have it made worse. There is also Corruption with British or German Politicians, but their political System relies MUCH less on outside Money Contributions - and also the revolving Door between Industry and Politics. Jobs for the Boys, Jobs for the Girls ...
In business class in community college I was taught by my professors that a corporation is separate from the ones incorporating. Corporations are supposed to be separate entities and as far as them having a voice...I thought that applied to advertising and marketing and the products and or services they produced. That's what I was taught. When did that change...???
It’s so funny? depressing? nostalgic? to be watching these videos and immediately tell that they are pre 11/8/2016. I have a hard time watching any reporting before this day because it’s sad. You can look back and remember the feeling of stability and rationality that existed as a given. Sitting where we are now the warnings about too much corporate money involved in politics and the potential risks involved with destroying the form of government we all took for granted seem so obvious and undeniable today. I often feel as though at some point in 2016 we collectively stepped through a doorway/looking glass into a familiar yet ridiculous universe. A place where basic facts are debatable and saying something untrue is no longer about lying but more about the eye/ear of the beholder. It’s a dangerous place, similar to Wonderland. A place where it appears that people behaving like a mad hatter or a maniacal king or queen out speak and out number those of us who lived their previous entire lives in a world where sanity was a virtue. I want to know where the exit is. I think watching older news stories and documentaries pre 2016 stirs a sort of homesickness and sometimes that is just too painful for the reality of the reality we find ourselves in currently.
I may be a lifelong democrat but I always like Senator John McCain. I agreed with him Maybe not all the time but there were definitely moments where I was impressed with his views. Honestly if we had to have a Republican in the White House right now I wish it was him God rest his soul
The man who thinks the people are against the Supreme Court needs to do a bit of reading. This is a power that’s as never given to the Supreme Court and it can be taken away from them. Remember the constitution and the government serve the people not the other way around.
Well I'm really conflicted. My initial thought is: of course you should be able to speak as much as you want. We can't have limits on speech anymore than we can have limits on other forms of political activity. Do you think it's fair that some people can spend all day on political activism, while other people have to work? What if I passed a law that limited protesting to 10 hours per year. Do you think that would be fair? But I look at the outcome of a completely free system, and it does concern me.
@@xdmobb17x17 I am not sure i understand. Feel free to elaborate. Keep in mind I wrote this comment 5 years ago and would have to refresh my context. I think what I was getting at is: a corporate entity isn't an individual, but it is made of individuals. For instance, a newspaper isn't a person--but we dont think that means that it doesn't have free speech
Well, it is no longer considered illegal or dirty money just because they were made transparent and legal now. If it sounds scary to know that there were people carrying briefcases full of money back then, what would the level of paranoia be now that there are no physical traces used anymore and don't forget that money can even be transferred into offshore bank accounts too. RIP John McCain.
The US had some exemplary laws limiting power over press, banks and campaign donations ... why were all these laws removed? BTW, Rest in peace, Mr. McCain!
I'm curious now how other countries elect leaders. How much money do politicians in, say, Mexico and Canda have to raise? Who all donates to political campaigns in France, Japan, Germany, Australia, India, Brasil etc? What do their political ads look like? Just wondering.
A super PAC to end super PACs? I think I've heard of something like that. "I'm using war as a business to end war as a business." -Senator Armstrong, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Politics is the opposite of business: the professionals are the people who *aren't* getting paid. Name an effective movement that has no money involved, where everybody is a volunteer. The way to crush someone is to take away their money, chase away their donors or get them fired from their job. People with no money in the first place are much tougher to silence.
Who is the guy at 10:36 fooling? I guess Americans shouldn't question anything the Supreme Court does because whatever they do is good by definition, at least if you take his argument to its logical conclusion.
What's the difference if I donate $500 million to a campaign or if I spend $500 million to buy CNN and use them to spread propaganda to serve my political interests? Why do corporations/unions spend so much money in political campaigns? Because the government has the power to serve these corporations/unions. The government shouldn't have the power to serve particular interests groups.
The Government will always have the power to serve particular Interest Groups. Imagine the Government was basically just the Judicial, wouldnt there be interest in appointing specific Judges, and to get specific rulings? If the Government only made small laws, wouldnt there be an interest in those small laws? The basic Idea of Government is completely destroyed with that last sentence. I get what you're saying, but it is impossible to make a Government that will be complety be immune to Corruption, thats why you make it harder to commit Corruption.
This same problem is going on in India under Modi government From developed to developing all countries are fed up of politicians is democracy is coming to its end
