Quote:You are saying that spending money on political campaigns is a corrupt practice and the government should be able to stop citizens from doing so in spite of First Amendment guarantees protecting political speech.

 

Just to be clear.

It is very clearly a corrupt practice. Why are you even questioning it? Political speech is not the same as political bribes. The first amendment has nothing to do with the purchasing of elections, politicians, favors, and the overall corruption of the democratic process. I think you think it does though. The right loves to stump about the founders this and the founders that. They would be rolling in their graves to see the corrupt plutocracy we have become and that some people defend it. 

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