Dear Justice Roberts: A Grateful Nation Thanks You for Allowing the Political Process to Become Even More Corrupt

This is what the so-called conservatives on the Robert Court have wrought- a political system awash in anonymous money:

Interest groups are spending five times as much on the 2010 congressional elections as they did on the last midterms, and they are more secretive than ever about where that money is coming from. The $80 million spent so far by groups outside the Democratic and Republican parties dwarfs the $16 million spent at this point for the 2006 midterms. In that election, the vast majority of money - more than 90 percent - was disclosed along with donors' identities. This year, that figure has fallen to less than half of the total, according to data analyzed by The Washington Post. The trends amount to a spending frenzy conducted largely in the shadows. ... The wave of spending is made possible in part by a series of Supreme Court rulings unleashing the ability of corporations and interest groups to spend money on politics.

Thanks to the "conservatives", hidden clowns like the Koch Brothers are able to funnel millions of dollars into the electoral process in order to buy votes for their chosen candidates, namely, the ones that support the idea that the rich should not pay any taxes.* They do so by giving money to Confederate party front groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

I do recognize that there are progressives and liberals who are also engaging in secret funding. But one has to be willfully blind not to see that the vast bulk of the secret sluch funds are coming from corporations and Wingnuts.

Which is just what the Roberts court intended.

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* No taxes for estates and for investment income mean that the entire tax burden will be borne by people who have to work for a living.