The Sunshine Empire

I was just pondering the SCOTUS decision that removed limits for corporate cash in elections and the elated position of most conservatives. They all are celebrating like Saints fans on Bourbon street last night. Jolemite sent me a Fox News opinion piece (isn’t everything that comes from Fox opinion) and he was absolutely apoplectic over the writer’s position that allowing corporations to essentially buy elections was a victory for the First Amendment and free speech. Yet it has me wondering why those who are usually out to restrict speech are the ones celebrating the decision.

I’m proud of my nation’s flag no matter how much I may disagree with a particular administration or congress. I proudly display old glory at my desk. Yet when someone wants to burn the flag as a sign of political disagreement I feel that there is nothing more American. I would never burn the flag but those do are as defiant as those who participated in the Boston Tea Party that the radical right now apes. Yet all those conservatives that are celebrating the idea as money as free speech have voted for anti-flag burning amendments. How exactly do they square those two things? I find allowing our democracy to essentially degenerate into a cattle auction just as abhorrent as most conservatives probably find burning the flag. The difference being I find burning the flag distasteful and conservatives are celebrating the new flow of corporate cash. I’m better than you, I win.

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