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"I can agree that commercial corporations are not people, but no such restrictions on campaign spending, lobbying and advertising should apply to the non-profit corporations that allow like-minded people to band together and seek to advance whatever cause they represent. That is the only way that ordinary people can compete politically with the rich and well-funded. News media, for example, are well-funded by effective taxes on the public through the advertising dollars that consumer dollars make possible. We buy products and some of that money gets spent funding news outlets which we may have had no intention of supporting. And no news outlet, which reaches millions of people, is entirely free of bias and self-interest. So if a major segment of the news media starts beating up on those ordinary non-rich people whom it sees as demons, how else can the demonized fight back in the political arena effectively? Five and ten dollar donations from a few million members adds up. News media and corporations are not obliged to support our values and issues with the money they get from us. But the non-profit lobbies that we support directly do. They are our voices and should be recognized as such. Some of us might vote the other ticket, if it's candidate had not pledged to do things that hurt us, just to please his or her party's wing nuts. When the politicians are selected by the most extreme elements of their parties, and the news media demonstrate whatever biases they have with politically selective reporting, how else can we make our voices heard?"
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