How much do I really matter in a democracy?

With last month’s Supreme Court ruling that corporations (with much deeper pockets than yours and mine) are now able to directly support specific political candidates and issues without spending limits or disclosure, we’ve seen the upending of decades of bipartisan support for the regulation of corporate and individual campaign contributions. President Obama addressed this new ruling directly in his first State of the Union address when he argued the decision would “open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.”

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