Originally Posted by
GliderCFI
You may want to do a little research on the actual decision. A large part of it involved not restricting free speech among organizations/associations, and that giving money to a campaign in democracy was a part of free speech. (This is where the whole "organizations are people too" thing came from). Sounds okay, but the problem is YOUR donations given to a candidate can't touch what a corporation like a large pharmaceutical company, or say, a large bank, can give. Money in politics = power over politians. That's why you have candidates with voting records in favor of shutting down congressional investigations into shady opiod distribution and over-eager lending. Follow the money. The only thing worse than the "swampy" money in politics is when someone appoints former leaders of said swampy companies for cabinet postions. But the people who fell for the "drain the swamp" BS stopped paying attention after election night.
The swamp more refers to the deeply ingrained Washington elite who run roughshod over the country through regulations and washing as much tax money through the bureaucracy in dc. Supposedly like a 1/3 of the traditional highly compensated executive branch appts have never been made yet the US survived.
What we need is strict term limits at every office to help deinfluence the lobbyist power to get people re-elected over and over and then a periodic top down justification of every position in govt wouldn’t hurt either. Business reevaluate positions all the time but govt NEVER gets smaller just finds ways to justify more people despite technology improvements and increased productivity in the civilian side of the world.