Quote Originally Posted by UncleBuck View Post
you can thank our righty SCOTUS judges for the whole 'corporations are people' ruling.

we already had a wide open political donation system before, citizens united was the final straw.

i am constantly blown away by how elections are done in europe with less money involved.
Corporations got that power way back in 1855 UB, the SCOTUS made no decision on this. The only thing they decided was that corporations would not be hindered in their use of campaign contributions.