The one thing that has been a thorn in the side of voters, dems, and those that are any other color other than red, has been Citizens United. In truth it really shouldn't be named that in the first place, after all the citizens aren't united in giving unlimited money to the rich and the Republican's, hell the worst words that were ever said by a Republican "Corporations are people too." Ye…no they're not. Corporations are run by people however they don't live think and breath like we do, and they sure as hell don't pay taxes like the rest of us do.
Nope, when that came down from the conservative idiots of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), that basically was the green light for the ultra rich to do whatever the hell they please. Well right now, in the Congressional Senate, an Amendment to the United States Constitution is passing right now to not only end Citizens United, but to make sure that money is completely kept out of politics forever.
Now what might this mean for you and I, well for one thing it means that the Kochs and their ilk can no longer buy the political world like they've been doing since Bush Jr. had been in office (and if you don't think that happens to be the case, then you've been watching Fox News for way too damned long), and where they've been making sure that those of minorities have been not only getting punished, but also making sure that they can't vote in the least. Trust me on this, even having a state issued ID card, doesn't cut it for some states. Nope in some of them, even if you've got that ID card, you actually need to have a full on driver's license. Here's the catch though, you can only get one of those if you're going to be driving a car. So if you're not driving, you don't get that card, and you don't get to vote either. Now this only seems to be happening in red Republican controlled states, in blue states you can have an ID card that government issued and still be able to vote.
This right here is actually good for us when it comes to Citizens United getting torn down; however there's a little wrinkle to the entire plan. That wrinkle is the Republicans in the Congressional House. They're the ones now that this now has to go through, and more than likely they're going to vote the way of their masters and end all of this making sure that Citizens United stays going, saying some stupid idiot thing like "this is what the citizens want in the first place, why would they end something that deals with them." Well it doesn't, the rich citizens yes, but the middle and lower classes, it has never dealt once with them and it never will either.
Now we just have to wait and find out what happens in the House, I for one am not going to be surprised if the House kills this, I honestly won't be surprised in the least.
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