A Person Is A Person.

       I'm sitting here trying to make sense of the idea that corporations are persons. Now I've always thought it was a silly idea, but it is the law. Even though Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg continues to say "If there was one decision I would overrule it would be Citizens United", which was made possible because of the personage decision, in my opinion. I understand that it gave corporations certain financial and tax advantages to be classified as persons, but it allowed other backdoor advantages like the right to outspend any other person in election campaign donations.
       The most egregious among these rights is the one of  Social Welfare PACs. When you say to a tax exempt organization that they can spend a portion of the donations they receive on political ads and that they don't have to announce who made those donations, a can of worms, half baked, smelling like death warmed over, is opened up. That allowed "portion" becomes almost all the money they can get their hands on. At that point corporations and extremely wealthy donors found an opportunity to gain access to the electoral process even if their pet politicians didn't win.
       Ya see, if a politician knows a certain corporation or billionaire is willing to support members of their party, those donors are sure to be an influence on any decisions made by that party and it's members. Now why would a major corporation or billionaire want to be able to influence government decisions? HA! The question reads 'Why wouldn't they!' After all we're talking about tax breaks, contracts, leases, and on and on. And the beauty is that nobody, except the politicians, will know the donations came from them. Its all secret.
       What's wrong with that? Secrets breed corruption. Corruption breeds more of the same. After a while you get the kind of government we have now, dysfunctional. I don't know why it happens that way, but it does, it did. I'll bet if you could actually smell secrets, corruption and dysfunction, it would smell a lot like a skunk. No, when you come right down to it, corporations aren't persons. But God help us when they demand the vote.