It's interesting to me how everyone who disagrees with this ruling keep acting like the justices are extremely confused and decided through some convoluted mental process that corporations are pretend-people.<p>Lets look at the First Amendment, shall we?<p>"Congress shall make no law"..."abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"<p>Hmm... doesn't say you have to be a person.  In fact it seems to just say, Congress can't make a law... abridging speech. Not speech by people, or speech by companies, or speech by the media. Just speech. As in, anyone can say whatever.  <i>Especially</i> about politics.<p>Justice Kennedy brilliantly points out:
'"If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech." He also noted that since there was no way to distinguish between media and other corporations, these restrictions would allow Congress to suppress political speech in newspapers, books, television and blogs.' (via Wikipedia)<p>Honestly I'm not sure what's going to change... rich people and unions already dump money into politics, through various means.