"Corporate Personhood" Is Not the Problem<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Supreme Court's Citizens United\u200b decision decimated what little remained of campaign-finance reform. But the real problem is with the changing notion of "Freedom of Speech."\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Citizens United and where the real problem is: not in corporate personhood or money-as-speech, but in large part with the idea that freedom of speech is not about ensuring that all citizens have voices that can be heard. "The struggle will likely be long and difficult. But it is worth waging, both because we … Continue reading “"One-sided, mercenary discourse"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25613,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/20\/whats-the-best-way-to-fix-citizens-united.html","url_meta":{"origin":27428,"position":0},"title":"What's the best way to fix Citizens United?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Jan-12 9:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"Or is there a best way? Is it reasonable to look for just one avenue? Or does pursuing multiple courses dilute the effort?This article looks at how the current constitutional amendment effort against corporate \"personhood\" may not be the right course to take. Corporate \"personhood\" strikes me as a loathesome\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23382,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/money-finds-a-way-but-why-make-it-easy.html","url_meta":{"origin":27428,"position":1},"title":"Money finds a way, but why make it easy?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Nov-11 9:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"The cynic in me knows that money always finds a way in the electoral process. Decades of campaign finance reform made that clear. 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