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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're right. We're all focused on the horror this would potentially wreak on our lives that no one has the energy to see that the GOP is a bunch of lizard slugs. I hope the Mercers and Kochs rot in stinking hell. [/quote] Hell would be too good for them.[/quote] They are just expressing their First Amendment rights like you are on this forum. [/quote] Buying elections is not "free speech." MONEY IS NOT SPEECH. When I, as a regular Joe, am trying to get my voice heard, but then some billionaire with a 10,000 watt PA system rolls up and completely drowns me out then my own free speech has effectively been denied. The rich should not be entitled to more voice and more say than anyone else. We seriously need to fix campaign finance and lobbying, and get money out of politics.[/quote] Not the PP. Freedom of speech, as enshrined in the First Amendment, has nothing to do with the competition between you and the billionaire. Freedom of speech, as a Constitutional construct, means the government is not allowed to silence you unless it can demonstrate that it has a really, really good reason. The rich are not "entitled" to more voice and more say than anyone else, but because they have more money than you than can choose to spend it on that speech. Just like they're not entitled to more property than you are, but they can buy more than you can. The only place where you are guaranteed the same electoral influence that they have is the ballot box. [/quote] I strongly disagree. In effect, my government DOES silence me, because most members of the House and Senate wouldn't listen to me unless I brought a check with a five digit number written on it. And that is a fact. A very sad one. We need to get money OUT of politics. [/quote]
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