Reply #10: Corporations are theoretically immortal while you and I are, in fact, mortal.

[alberg]

In practical terms, Corporations are entities that exert power and influence in shaping the world we live in. They have agenda's and goals that (over time) can transcend the agendas and goals of any individual that started them or currently works inside them. They often function (because of the Profit Motive) outside the accepted moral and ethical constraints of real flesh and blood people. (As the saying goes, it's not personal - it's just business (think Godfather)). All that's fine as long as there are limits to what they can do. What the SC decision does is allow them to buy up and control our Democracy by overwhelming any message or candidate that they decide is not in their Corporate best interest. And this best interest my in fact be in direct opposition to not only the best interest of the majority of American citizens but against the best interests of the folks who actually work for the Corporations (think Outsourcing). The overall effect of all this is that we will lose our Democracy because the power of individuals and their ability to effect social change through the ballot box will be, in practical terms, obliterated.