The fact that political spending is considered free speech in the US gives the rich and already powerful massive sway in the political system, it is basically tiled hard towards them. And then combined with how PACs hide their funding behind names like "Everyday Americans Making the World Better" when really it just wants to lessen online gambling laws for a billion dollar company, is just brutal. US politics is a dystopian future realized.

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twoodfin 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Political spending is perhaps the most important kind of free speech.

It cost money to print copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Federalist Papers. The New York Times gets into politics quite a bit and is published by a multi-billion dollar corporation.

Where in the Constitution is that activity protected from the government but the First Amendment?

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arealaccount 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Even crazier that they sway elections in districts they've never even visited nor intend to ever visit

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buellerbueller 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Enabled yet again, today, by the SCOTUS.

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saalweachter an hour ago | parent [-]

What I find mildly interesting is how the older money (eg, the Koch brothers) spent decades creating the current environment (between deregulation on business, cutting taxes on the wealthy, and political ventures like the Federalist Society and Heritage, Inc), but it's come together to create a newer group of rich jerks who are really exploiting it to the hilt.

	▲	buellerbueller an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I recall that this outcome (today's rich jerks exploiting it to the hilt) was what was predicted all along.