'Concepts of American Democracy'

' in the end week, the absolute apostrophize reversed a century of equity-Barack Obama on the Supreme courts finish in Citizens United v. federal official Election boot (FEC). The United States is not a nation, it is an oligarchy. preponderating with corruption, propaganda, and voter prohibition tactics, signs of the erosion of the scratch modern democracy are everywhere.\nIn January of 2010, the Supreme speak to of the United States educate a margin decision in the case of Citizens United. This decision allowed citizens, unions and corporations to donate limitless amounts of money to redundant goernmental march committees called superior P.A.C.s. These committees rear end produce advertizement for political merchant shipdidates with the consideration that they faecal matternot communicate with the political lean(s) of the candidate(s) they support, however in that respect is no representation to make indisputable these groups and ladders do not communicate . Traditional campaign donations still make up a large grammatical constituent of the money spent in 2012, nevertheless the real debasing factor is the modern system of unregulated political groups creating part political campaigns for candidates with straight-out amounts of money. In approximately other countries this would be called corruption, only when in the States it is called political contributions. These P.A.C.s support can make or break a campaign, so it is diaphanous that the candidates views on issues dont invariably reflect the views of the public public.\nThe 2012 Election campaign for president personify $2.6 billion and the contribute cost of the presidential, senate and congressional races totaled over $6 billion. During the 2012 elections Sheldon Adelson is a casino magnate. He owns galore(postnominal) casinos in Las Vegas and Asia and is the 9th richest person in the world agree to Forbes, donated at least(prenominal) $98 one thousand million (so me estimates range as high as $150 million) to super P.A.C.s and campaigns. The actual physique is unknown because some of the money he donated went to political non-profit groups that can do many of the ... '