What the....

So now the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are  people?  What? And as people are entitled to all the rights in the Constitution?  So said 'people' can make as big contributions as they want to political parties or politicians, because corporations are people!

Now if I were a cynical person, I might believe that 5 of the Justices in the Supreme Court are being...what is an appropriate word here?...bribed...paid...in the pocket of...or some other phrase or word denoting possible dishonesty. Heck let's make that Probable Dishonesty.  Of course, I am not a cynical person. But if I were Oh my!  Once again my idea that the problem with cynicism is that it is so often right would come into play.

Now pundits are saying that 'Campaign Reform' is dead.  I agree.  However, it was never really alive in the first place.  In a way, having corporations actively contributing, openly contributing to political parties will let voters know which candidate is favored by 'Big Business'.  So maybe this will be a good thing?  Now contributions will be scrutinized, and not hidden?  Well maybe.  Maybe it just means that what the corporations are doing...have been doing...won't be illegal anymore. Our election process can  continue to be hijacked by moneyed interests, but now legally.  That has to be an improvement, doesn't it?

I wonder does this ruling allow foreign corporations constitutional rights?  Can a corporation doing business here in the United States, but owned by foreign nationals now enjoy all the rights of an American Citizen?  Which in effect would make it a citizen without taking any of the oaths that real foreigners have to take to become Citizens?  If that were the case, would it not seem that Citizenship was being purchased?  Would that be a good thing?

If Corporations are Citizens...or people...can the time be far behind when people are not Citizens, but non-people because Corporations are people?  Is it possible that we will lose our peoplehood, and our rights?
Is that thinking too far fetched?

No it is not!