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The entire sweeping consequence of citizens united was to vastly increase the amount of money in politics, now hidden behind the free speech rights of corps. Corps should not be considered people. all this did was provide a mechanism for very wealthy people to influence politics and hide it much better than before. can you possible claim this is a good thing?

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There was a politician and activist from Montana on (US) NPR radio today who advocated getting congress to pass an act that /corporations aren't people/. If anyone's new to the issue, Google 'Thom Hartmann corporate personhood', you'll get the flimsy history of how it came to be. Making them not be people would solve a lot of the problems of money in politics. Too bad there's now so much precedence, I guess.

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