>I think one needs to blame the First Amendment for this, not lobbyist. The first amendment has only been loosely upheld throughout our history. There are many

>I think one needs to blame the First Amendment for this, not lobbyist. The first amendment has only been loosely upheld throughout our history. There are many types of speech that are regulated in spite of it. >Is there a way to fix this that doesn't result in government control of political speech? We had a system in place prior to Citizens United that didn't turn into government control of political speech. Many other developed countries have limitations on spending money on political speech that don't turn into complete government control of political speech. There's no reason to assume that a few men in the 1780s got everything right. And a slippery slope argument is no reason to throw up our hands and stop trying to advance egalitarianism.