1. United States
2. Ga.
3. Letter

The “right” of a purchaser to their money’s worth is actually the privilege of purchase. What they insist they deserve to get does not go to those who cannot afford and therefore don’t (yet) deserve it. This is a distinction between right and privilege that is germane to the arguments against corporate personhood and money as free speech. “The best government money can buy” is a humorous turn of phrase that, nonetheless, points out the wrongness for society, the harm to government and politics, in appropriating people’s rights and the benefit of society in this way. The forces that manipulated the Citizens United decision by manipulating the character of our highest Court are still at work, are rubbing our noses in their power over us, and are an actionable domestic threat. Congress, you took a Federal oath that is a moral imperative now. Act like this is so… despite your being a “government success story.”