Corporate And Union Money Isn’t Killing Democracy

By Lance Haun | January 22, 2010

So corporations and unions now have unlimited spending on political advertisements? Some people are saying that this is the end of democracy as we know it.

I am sorry but Humpty Dumpty has already fell off this wall. To think that a mangled piece of legislation known as McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform (or any of its predecessors) somehow fixed corporate and union influence is, to put it lightly, bullshit. If corporate and union influence has really killed democracy, it happened decades ago. I don’t think that’s reality though.

From the time they were conceived to present time, corporations and unions (and to a lesser extent, special interest groups) have been trying to sway the will of the people they influence the most using various methods. In the past, it may have been by force or intimidation. Other times it was with sweetening them up. Almost always, it involved money. Lots of it.

Fast forward to now. Wait, that is now.

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