SCOTUS

When the revolution comes I envision it starting at the Supreme Court; with millions of Americans locking that building down until the current Justices, all nine of them, are driven from power. It doesn't appear as if the political system in the United States can recover until the corruption that is endemic to that system is rooted out. When it comes to corruption no one holds a candle to the Robert's Court.

One does have to give them credit for shear chutz-pa. Imagine standing straight-faced before the people of the United States and declaring that the Founding Fathers wrote into the Constitution the inalienable right of a corporation to buy any elected official it thinks it can afford.

There can be no political reform until there is campaign finance reform; and the Supreme Court has determined that campaign finance reform is unconstitutional. Corruption is now enshrined as a Constitutional right. The only candidates that are ever going to make it onto a ballot are those swimming in special interest money, pre-approved by those determined to keep the system exactly as it is now. There will be no anti-war candidate, no one pro-union or pro-environment. There will be none who will seek financial reform, or who will rein in military spending, or even demand that the military account for the money it does spend. There will be no one calling for the prosecution of Wall Street criminals, or who runs on the promise of investigating how the United States became a nation that uses torture, that sent prisoners to Muammar Gaddafi to be interrogated and murdered. "Left-wing" will be a label for people who think Regan was pretty much a moderate. (Right wingers might invoke Regan's name, but he couldn't compete in today's Republican primary or hope to raise a dime of corporate money.)

Thanks to the SCOTUS reform is now beyond the reach in the current American system. Revolution has become the only chance for revival. It may as well start with on the steps of a Supreme Court that made illegal any chance of changing the system from the inside.