Freedom ain t free. Never has been. Never will be. Isn t today. Consider our independence from England, the abolition of slavery, the creation of unions rights to organize, World War II, or the civil rights movement.
Freedom involves risk analysis, benefit-cost analysis.
So it is today with the evil of corporate money eating at the core of democracy. It has turned off over half the electorate, now cynical or apathetic. It blocks the legislative reforms that are desperately needed by all of us as consumers, taxpayers and citizens. It increases the ever-widening gap between rich and poor. It distorts the political dialogue in the mass media.