Comment Re:No shit, Sherlock (Score 3, Interesting) 92
Any public service that can be privatized and profited-from, they seek to privatize. Regulations that hinder profit, are being eliminated. Good for the business-owner class, not so much for the consumer.
"If money is speech, the wealthy have a lot more of it than you."
I think Citizens United was a disastrous decision. Instead of saying only physical persons could contribute to politicians, they went the opposite direction and said any logical construct, union or business, could contribute. Perhaps it was consistent with existing law but it really empowered the donor class to the detriment of the rest of the population. It's creating stresses in society. And both sides cowtow to money and moneyed interests.
In democratic societies, power has a tendency to coalesce to the center of power, to consolidate. A dictatorship is the ultimate form. Feudalism is an intermediate form. If it's not resisted, democracy becomes hollowed out, and we return to de facto oligarchy and feudalism.