People seem not to have learned math while in school. For example, it takes two halves to make a whole. There are too many people who think President Obama is black. Actually, he is 1/2 Caucasian and 1.2 1st generation African descent. The state of Hawaii has shown his official birth certificate where he was born when Hawaii was legally one of the United States. That means, for those mathematically challenged, he is as much white as not. Just as one of the Carolinas still flies a Confederate flag, it does not surprise me that they still think the product of rape between the white plantation and slave owner and one of the daughters of slaves that produced a child was a black child. It would be too much to expect them to accept what rapes were performed by their forebears but, the truth is still the truth and rape is still rape, slaves or not.
Our Southern states during the slave era did not distinguish themselves by the actions of their slave owners or the way men treated other humans (even though our laws indicated that all men (humans) should be considered equal. It took over a hundred years of suffering, brutal beatings and lynchings for our laws to begin to protect the people of color who, by law, were now free and equal. It has taken over a hundred and fifty years to continue with that struggle and deal with some people who still haven't accepted the equality.
A second example of poor math by the same group is when those same open-mouth-and-not-know-what-they-are-saying people assume, when they talk about the government not being respected, mean it to refer to President Obama. They think this despite his fairly high approval rates, especially as compared to those of the Congress. Decades ago, when I studied our country's government, there were three (count them-3 ); Administrative, Legislative and Judicial.
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After the Roberts Court decided corporations are people and can cast one collective vote as though it is speech (even though all in the corporation might not make the same vote) through monetary donations which amount to an obscenely large figure. To better understand this, click here
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There are a lot of disputes over what the Citizens United decision says. The easiest way to settle these disputes is to read the decision, available online:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf
The oft-quoted phrase "corporations are people" never appears in this decision. It does not say that institutions can spend without limit, and in fact, the decision sites spending limits as the sort of regulation that is consistent with the first amendment.
There are a lot of misconceptions about this decision. I urge citizens to read the decision in order to better understand this issus.
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