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think of the concentration of wealth in the hands of corporations in the united states.
think of the extent to which unleashing more of that money would gut the debris field that is the american political process.
it seems to be assumed that the republicans would benefit disproportionately from this--and perhaps that's right in certain sectors, which comprise the republican corporate patronage system---but it's clear that not all corporate types see neoliberalism as a coherent ideology or it's correlates in how bidness operates as rational in purely self-interested terms. so what this ruling would do is skew the entirety of the process, transferring basic political power away from both the state and the people and into the hands of corporate entities.
relative to which there is little in the way of redress.
i don't think this would represent a change in kind from the system that's already in place--but it would bring about a definite change--for the worse--in political processes.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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