Thanks to the infamous decision by the United States Supreme Court in 2010 to support Citizens United’s interests in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, political campaign financing was essentially deregulated, effectively allowing political access committees to grow to gargantuan sizes.

With sole credit due to the aforementioned Supreme Court ruling, so-called super PACs, as long as they operate independently of the political candidates they support, more or less became able to collect endless financing from private high net-worth individuals, nonprofit organizations, corporate interests, and anybody or anything else with a deep-enough pocketbook.

The hard-working people of the United States are steadily losing the ability to make splashes in federal- and state-level politics thanks to Citizens United making United States politics a greenback-filled crap-show. Continue reading →