America, the Plutocracy

Of all the commentary regarding the supreme court decision to protect corporate political spending as free speech, I found this letter to the editor in the NYT to be the most poignant.

To the Editor:

By means of two legal fictions, that corporations are people and money is speech, the Roberts court has turned America from a democracy to a plutocracy.

Norman N. Holland
Gainesville, Fla., Jan. 22, 2010

And the runner-up:

To the Editor:

The justices have affirmed a core principle of Republican government: one dollar, one vote.

Stephen Bowles
Santa Barbara, Calif., Jan. 22, 2010