Debates about the Citizens United case have been ripe throughout the entire country. In the case, the majority of the Supreme Court ruled that company broadcasts could not be limited. In addition, they ruled that there was no cap on company funding on candidates, but that there had to be a middleman of a superpac. Setting dangerous future implications, this decisions greatly undermines the future democracy of the country through condoning skewed political power based on wealth and by giving first amendment right to a company (Citizens 1). Setting a regulation to funnel the wealthy elite’s money into super PACs takes away power from the everyday individual and their right to have a government by the people for the people. Also, it perpetuates corruption due to the super PACs not being legally obligated to disclose their spending, which is known as “dark money”. This continues the cycle of corruption by decreasing transparency of a candidate, making the candidate and their interests less known to the public. Due to this, he public is unable to make informed decisions to better not only their own lives, but the entire country through their vote (Levy 1). …show more content…
Actually, “the Fortune 100 companies alone had combined revenues of $13 trillion and profits of $605 billion during the last election cycle”(Pro 1). Through this money, the companies have the ability to push their agendas onto candidates, which creates politicians only focused on a select fews problems because they are worried about appeasing them to gain the necessary funding. In addition, this decision drastically puts back the time scales of democracy by more than a century, which is treatourous for the entire country (Pro