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I read Scalia opinions as a hobby.
I have found myself disagreeing with a SCOTUS opinion in the past, only to read Scalia's opinion and suddenly realize my first assessment was obviously wrong.
One has to ask, despite the wrangling about corporations vs individuals, what did we really 'lose' here? McCain-Feingold didn't work. Period.
Corporations just circumvented the law, and in reality, made more efficient means of acquiring campaign funds with PACs and Committees and such and distributing the money amongst their anointed officials. All this did was obfuscate where the money was really coming from. The whole point of the legislation was therefore defeated....as is typical of what normally happens when rights are infringed. People have a way of finding a way around the infringement.
What has changed? Walmart looks great, but **ck all the US corporations. I would rather drink milk from China than donate money to support political agenda of US corporation. When I buy a US product, I am committing political suicide by stuffing their political coffers. This is good enough reason for me to boycott everything made in US.
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