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Well perhaps if you knew more about it you might have a different sense of the effects of it.

One of the fundamental elements of Citizens United is that the rich always have influence in the US government, and the question before the court had nothing to do with them. The matter in CU was whether the rest of us would be able to associate to speak up against them and counter their claims.

So much of what we see now is exactly what the argument in CU was opposed to, but unfortunately the reporting on the case has been so terrible that people don't realize it.

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