The intent of the Founding Fathers in writing the Constitution is always heavily debated when cases go before the Supreme Court. The Court's decision today to allow wealthy individuals to spend infinite amounts of money to buy elections across the country is no different.
One of the reasons the Founding Fathers broke from Europe was the arrogance and corruption inherent in the hereditary ruling class of kings and noblemen. The wealth and influence of men like the Koch brothers -- hereditary oil barons -- and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson makes them the nobility of today.
These people expect everyone to treat them like royalty, pay them fealty and kiss their feet. Just last week Chris Christie and other Republican presidential hopefuls paid obeisance to Sheldon Adelson. During his paean to a foreign country in Las Vegas Christie made a catastrophic blunder by calling the Palestinian terroritories that Israel seized from Syria, Egypt and Jordan in 1967 and is still occupying "the Occupied Territories." When Christie was told of Adelson's displeasure he apologized instantly.
Adelson's casinos are involved with bribery and money laundering. He makes billions in Macau off Chinese gamblers. In the last election cycle Adelson spent more than a hundred million dollars to elect a Republican president. Adelson is currently on a crusade to keep online gambling illegal, suckering many Republicans and Christians to do his bidding. Millions of Americans are addicted to casino gambling, costing the US economy $50 billion annually. Stories about accountants and bookkeepers embezzling money from their companies and churches to feed their gambling habit are endless. Adelson profits from this addiction and misery; gambling and corruption are inextricably linked.
Adelson is essentially an agent of the Israeli government, spending his billions to get the United States to kowtow to Israeli politicians, regardless of what the best interests of the American people might be.
Did the Founding Fathers really write a Constitution that equates foreign princes like Sheldon Adelson using their wealth to buy elections across the United States to free speech?
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I continue to think that Republicans deeply wish for an return of an aristocratic system similar to the Antebellum South. It really explains how bent out of shape they get when Democrats run the government. The Right just feels that Democrats are not worthy of being up there...as if they were peasants...
I continue to think you're delusional.
http://markadelphia.blogspot.com/2014/01/we-aristocracy.html
I must have imagined that Fox News Clip extolling the character of Robert Grantham on Downtown Abbey and how he is a "job creator." And don't you love and adore the wealthy and trickle down economics?
And don't you love and adore the wealthy and trickle down economics?
I get it - since you are consumed by envy of them you must imagine that everyone else has the same over-weening issue even if expressed slightly differently.
Funny too that the South right up through Jim Crow was so solidly Democratic. Maybe that says something about you too?
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html
And probably...
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem.html
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