re: #163 reine.de.tout

Um.
The Supreme Court is a bit different than “important person X”, and the decisions there carry different weight than those of “important person X”.

My point was that, when forming my opinion of an issue, I don’t think it’s particularly helpful to consider establishment views as inputs. They can be helpful for sanity-checking outputs though.

Perhaps the wealth gives them greater access to the vehicles of speech; but it doesn’t give them greater privilege, does it?

Is there a difference? Of course, people are technically “free” to say whatever they like, but in practice, poor people get less of a say than rich people, which in my book isn’t exactly “freedom of speech”.

It depresses me how much fund-raising politicians in the US have to do, and how beholden to corporate interests they become as a result. The recent Supreme Court decision only furthers this process.