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Thom Hartmann: "People in the Rust Belt know all about tariffs. They know that tariffs have kept jobs in the Rust Belt." What is the need to artificially keep jobs in the Rust Belt? What if keeping them there means the cost of production is higher = higher prices for consumers? Why should a...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained (Much of the above is also said below. Much of the same logic. I.e., Citizens United must be overturned in order that elections can be designed so as to ensure the that right candidates win, through FEC...

Are Progressives just as deranged as the Trumpers? Here's what Progressives are saying: Everything that's wrong right now is all caused by one Supreme Court Decision, Citizens United. According to Thom Hartmann (and even Joan Esposito following him on the Chicago station), if that one decision...

Is there something wrong with the following? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/anti-ice-virginia-democrats-get-another-innocent-person-killed/ar-AA1XzxwU?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=69a98e5c2be2498ea651177cc874fe4f&ei=1 My guess is that the above omits some facts which would clarify better...

Who or what are you saying is "artificial"? has too much "influence"? And that therefore their free speech rights must be curtailed? No they did not. The vast majority, probably 99%, gained no political influence, or virtually none. The vast majority are small, with total assets much less than...

"Big money" my ass! But not every group? not every church? newspaper? corporation like the ACLU? labor union? These don't have any 1st Amendment rights and so can be censored by the federal government? (jack-booted) federal agents can raid their meetings and disperse them because the group has...

Business-owner detained + her 4 children who are citizens. If this doesn't automatically begin at about 25:30, advance it to that point in the video. Apparently she herself was incarcerated for 100 days, after spending 2 weeks in custody with her 4 kids. It was illegal to arrest the kids...

I'll take a dozen.

Why not censor PBS? or NBC or CNN or Fox newscasts/commentary? (during the election year) How are you deciding whose political speech to ban (restrict etc.) and whose not to? Why are you obsessed with banning this one film (or maybe 2) from Citizens United, and no other film? Why did Citizens...

Why is only Citizens United Inc. "not people"? WILL NO ONE EVER ANSWER this question? Why do you insist that the film about Hilary had to be banned? What was it about Citizens United Inc. that its film needed to be banned for the public good? Many well-financed corporations like the ACLU and...

What powerful entities? Stop making up stories! What political rights are granted to them which other groups don't have? Most corporations are no more powerful than the local shoe-shiner. And there are no special rights granted to them. Oh, so it's NOT about "granting . . . rights to powerful...

No, say it correctly -- it's about basic First Amendment rights of free speech (and free press etc.) which includes political speech. No, stop misstating it. It's not about "powerful" state-chartered entities. It's about ALL corporations, the vast majority of which are NOT POWERFUL. Nevermind...

But giving free speech rights to a billionaire individual like Elon Musk introduces more institutional power and scale than giving it to a corporation like the ACLU or Planned Parenthood and millions of other corporations which have less power. And yet you're protecting the right of the...

The answer is YES, they should have the same political speech rights. Why not? You mean Elon Musk should have the political speech right to spend millions to elect a candidate who opposes the ACLU, but this corporation does not have the same political speech right to condemn Elon Musk or oppose...

What makes corporations "not people"? A corporation is a group of individuals, so why doesn't it also retain First Amendment protections? A corporation is individuals acting in association. That's what the people in a corporation are doing. They form the company which is a kind of club, and...