Bill Maher Gives $1 Million To Obama-Supporting Super PAC
Friday, February 24, 2012
To begin with, in modern history, Democrats have raised as much, if not more, money as Republicans, and the pro-corporate legislation and policies that've gotten passed and put into place under both parties' administrations should tell you that both parties are corrupt to the bone.
But more importantly, our problems (bought politicians, pro-corporate/anti-populist policies and legislation) didn't just spring up with the USSC decision in Citizens' United. Our problems can be traced back directly to Buckley vs. Valeo (1976), when the USSC declared that money is speech.
There is only one solution (public financing of campaigns), and ending corporate personhood, and anything short of that, anyone not signing on to that, is a corrupt scum-sucking bottom feeder. And it's not on the agenda for either party.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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