This fall's campaign will be just the starting point for corporate and wealthy interests' control of the political process. They will learn from this fall's campaigns how to utilize the 'free speech' which money now possesses and following campaigns will encounter greater increases of 'independent spending' to dis-elect those who are not 'appropriately friendly' to their interests.

Thanks to the Roberts' Court for truly making our country The United Corporations of Amerika.

Today's question is: How fucked are the working class of Americans?

Answer: Completely and totally fucked!

The middle class will be a thing of the past. 21st century feudalism, here we come. The peasant class working until they drop dead while the rich get richer behind their closed gate communities.

And the Tea Partiers blame democrats for their problems. America, the Empire, is crumbling.

Why exactly haven't the Dems proposed a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United?. If you want to get voters to the polls in NOV, this is the way.

Well, if the commercials don't have to say who is paying for, doesn't that permit the other side to "speculate" in response ads who is paying for them? As Peggy Noonan would say, it would be irresponsible not to! "I see my candidacy is being opposed by Bermie Madoff, AIG, Ken Lay, etc.. Gentlemen, bring it on."

"Bye bye Miss American Pie..."

The Tea Party was never anti taxes. It was croporate america realizing that Roberts and the other dead-end lifers on the SUPREME COURT, throwing the salt onto the slugs formally known as "the Middle Class", were their most likely candidates to end the class warfare struggle via dealing the final fatal blow to those middle class upstarts and their stupid dreams.

The supreme irony is that it is the vestiges of that once proud class that has aged and fallen for the rhetoric of the GOP that tells them all is lost with progressive views are the very people that once made that class possible with hard fought unionizing, manufacturing jobs and actually buying the products they were making. All of that was just too much for the rich. What, upper middle class over-steppers joining my Yacht Club? Country Club? Better crush them soon.

The voices ($$$$) pitching this corporate hogwash will find its mark and the "slugs" will shrivel-up and die. Just like our country. Thanks Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas. Hope you are sleeping well. No doubt you are. Nauseating....

This is probably not practical and certainly won't be embraced by the Democrats because they still believe in the old paradigm of competition and outspending your opponent. Of course, most of the money being spent on media ads ends up in the pockets of the very media owners who daily avoid telling the whole truth about Republican candidates and movements.

Instead of buying ads from the media, fact check every claim by the opposition and, where relevant, file law suits for lying, slander or libel against those telling the lies about the Democrats or whoever is out there challenging the policies that actually benefit people.

Hold press conferences exposing the lies and misrepresentations, with documentation. If they have the courage, they will name names and show the connections with corporations, foreign governments and wealthy individuals who will directly benefit from the Republican policies. Recruit whistleblowers to reveal facts and secrets, and protect them with legal assistance. Spend the money where it will benefit the people, not the corporations.

Maybe it is impractical and pie-in-the-sky optimism, but truth and transparency will win in the end. I'd like to see the courage of WikiLeaks demonstrated in our politicians. And, by the way, The Coffee Party USA is doing an outstanding job of bringing together cooperative groups and not using the abusive tactics of the Tea Party.

I am committed to Oneness through Justice and Transformation
peace,
st john

O.K. So, the GOP buys control of everything, in 2010, 2012. And then what?

The majority of Americans become unemployed peons, fighting over who gets to mow the master's lawn.

-I wonder if they have thought this through. . .

Herein lies even more evidence that many so-called 'conservatives' are actually orthodox Marxists. After all, the end result of a smaller and smaller ruling class cowering behind the walls of their gated communities, as the numbers of poor continue to swell will be the very proletarian revolution that they claim to abhor.

The genius of FDR was that the New Deal prevented the continued collapse of the US middle class, which could have led to a proletarian revolution in the 1930s. Apparently, this preservation of the US way of life is entirely unacceptable to the orthodox communists making up the ruling class, so they insist on hurrying along the revolution.

Considering that this doesn't exactly end well for the ruling class, one wonders why they seem so eager for it to happen.

Viva la revolucion,
-Z

As usual John Lennon said it best.

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait

As usual John Lennon said it best.

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait

Zorro - nice comment. I would only add that the ruling class is not afraid of a revolution, and they do not view it as inevitable like you do.

And that is because today's oligarch's haven't seen a decent strike larger than Republic Windows, or any pro-labor legislation (let alone EFCA), so why worry about a revolution?

So everyone and anyone can be a Meg Whitman!

oh and remind me to pull my pic of Mao out of mothballs.

Being a veteran of 47 years of American party politics, (with a few years out for the Army,) I find myself very puzzled by the emphais in the Left on corporqte influences. Anyone who is very involved in Republican affairs is well aweare that Big Businesds doesn't have all that much influence, and hass far fewer voters to mobilize than Small Business does. So many of the rants I see just don't match the reality you see in the real worlkd.

Every time I think about splurging on dinner at Chili's, I think to myself: No, I'll forego the restaurant meal and give the money to the NRCC or American Crossroads instead. Some middle class people like me want smaller federal government.