Thoughts on undue corporate influence on government and media

This is a reality check. We live in a post-Citizens United
era. We live in an America where, as you know, we're at the mercy of for-profit corporations.

They exert huge control over our government through
lobbying, and now they have made their lobbying dollars even more
valuable. Now the Supreme Court has declared that corporations are people
and corporate lobbying dollars are as good as political speech. So now our
election process is even more corrupted by money than it was before.

Before citizens united, corporations got about $250, in the form of subsidies, tax
breaks, etc, for every single lobbying dollar they sent to Washington, D.C.
$250 for one $ by exerting control over what the legislators were writing into law.
Now they get to throw down even more money to get a bigger say in who is
voting on that law. This can't be the way for our country to continue.
It will destroys what remains of the rule of law in this country.

For-profit corporations have no concern for the public interest, yet they have
majority say in our government? Corporations are willing to deceive and
harm the public, yet they have control over the content and presentation of
the vast majority of the media? This must be changed.