Forum Post: Protesting the government in lieu of Wall Street and K Street will net you a lot of hookers...

...but it sure as hell won't clean up the red light district. Here's the problem with that; while we don't literally have corporate honchos and bank managers on Capitol Hill setting policy we're not necessarily that far from it. When you allow hedge funds, financial services firms, large corporations, and the superrich to pour as much money as they choose into the campaigns of whoever they choose, you effectively allow these entities to buy candidates. When you allow lobbying in its current form, you allow these entities to set the terms on which they buy candidates. Money is not speech and should not be treated as such, and corporations are not people and thus must be subjected to a far more limited form of the First Amendment if we want to have real democracy.