Thom Hartmann: What Obama Didn't Say, But Really Should Have -- The True State of Our Union

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"Thanks to the disastrous Citizen’s United decision, the Conservatives on the bench have made it possible for billionaires to flood our democracy with corporate cash, which is slowly destroying the democratic principles that our founding fathers fought and died for.
The Supreme Court has also said that corporations are protected by the 14th Amendment.
They’ve said that Wal-Mart and Apple are just like you and me.
They are not. They are voluntary associations. The Bill of Rights was not written to protect the East India Company, it was written to protect individual people.
We need to undo the damage that the Supreme Court has done, and amend our Constitution to clearly and explicitly say that "corporations are not people, and money is not speech"."