If I Say Jump, You Say How High.

       The decibel level of the freedom of speech bestowed upon corporations and the wealthy by our Supreme Court has all but drowned out the freedom of speech of the citizens of this country. This is where  unequal rights has its beginnings for Americans. You can speak louder and longer and in more influential ways, the more money you have. Our Supreme Court has bestowed the power corporations long demanded when it decided that corporations are people. Can you imagine? The only two things a corporation can't do is run for office or vote for those who do.
       But what a corporation can do now is to spend billions of dollars to bend the electoral process toward their goals, no matter if those goals might be away from the goals and wishes of the majority. We've seen how corporate interests are protected in gun legislation.True the NRA is not a for profit corporation, but through the millions gifted to the NRA by gun manufacturers they do as they are told and terrify legislators into doing the bidding of the gun lobby.
       You can't blame corporate boards for wanting things to go their way. We all want things to go our way. But there is no equality between a billion dollar corporate interest and an individual interest. You can only pretend it's a fair and level field. The CEO of a major corporation can make an appointment with any legislator almost anytime. Can you? You'll be hard pressed to make an appointment with your hair stylist.
       By allowing corporations to spend without limit on the election process, in it's decision in the Citizens United case and others, the Supreme court has provided freedom of speech, but it has struck down speech in the actual exercise of that freedom. The problem lies in the influence provided to corporate leadership. Since a corporation is in fact, not a person and since it cannot think or speak, that ruling has bestowed that additional privilege upon the leadership of that corporation. The added influence is the problem. ITIS. It's The Influence Stupid. ITMH. It's The Money Honey.