The video makes a good point, and then completely destroys its own argument with the closing line:
…turn your ire on a goverment that is vast and growing, and helps or hinders corperation based on politcal lobbying rather than marketplace forces.
So the best way to fight a government that is beholden to special interests is to allow those groups to spend more on behalf of candidates?
The limitations on political advertising are not unique. Other forms of advertising are currently censored in the name of the public good - when’s the last time you saw a cigarette ad on TV? Corporations and other organizations don’t have the right to vote, so it’s a stretch to frame this as a free speech/civil rights issue.
Conventional wisdom holds that money wins elections, with campaign donors essentially voting with their dollars. Until that changes, only those who actually have the right to vote should be able to vote with their dollars.
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