Freedom!

Today's Supreme Court ruling that corporations (and unions) can contribute to political campaigns to their little heart's desire is probably going to be more a symbolic change than an effective one.

Our plucky democracy, like that of our British cousins, has always been based on the proposition that money buys votes, one way or another. Lobbyists, PACs, media ownership, and a hundred other tools have always been available to legally determine the will of the public, this might even make the running of our plutocracy more transparent, for all the good that will do.

So let us rejoice in the new found freedom of money to operate in its own best interests. It is already working hard to destroy its own presupposition, the rule of law, so that the Caesars of the future will have clear sailing towards the imperial purple. Today was just another small step.