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Portrait, Bill Moyers. (photo: Robin Holland) Portrait, Bill
Moyers. (photo: Robin Holland)  Our Pro-Corporate Supreme Court
By Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company  16 September 12    ILL MOYERS:
Welcome. When five conservative members of the Supreme Court
handed corporations and the super-rich the right to overwhelm
our elections with tsunamis of cash, they moved America further
from representative government toward outright plutocracy, where
political power derived from wealth is devoted to protecting
wealth.  We saw it first in the mid-term elections of 2010, and
we’re seeing it in spades in this year’s elections – organized
money, much of it dark money, given secretly So it can’t be
traced, enveloping the campaign for president, Congressional
campaigns, and state legislative and judicial races. There’s
never been anything like it in our history – not on this scale,
and not this sinister. We’ll take a look at this radical threat
to democracy in our