This is 21st-century feudalism

By Cesar Lumba, Las Vegas

Monday, Nov. 10, 2014 | 9:24 a.m.

The Supreme Court says money in politics is free speech. That being the case, the Koch brothers, having given an estimated $200 million to their political causes this election cycle, have equaled the voices of at least 2 million Americans.

Sound like a feudal system with a twist? You’re darned right.

Grass-roots Democrats must scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with the estimated average $100 they contribute to the Democratic campaigns. But people like the Koches and the unnamed contributors who funnel their dark monies through Karl Rove have already bought and delivered the elections for the Republicans.

This is like the Revenge of the Billionaires. There’s no stopping them.

Thanks to our reactionary Supreme Court, the voices of the country’s handful of ultra-conservative, tax-hating and tax-avoiding billionaires are worth a whole lot more than the voices of as many as 50 million American voters.

These billionaire American aristocrats don’t care about issues like the living wage, equal pay for equal work, immigration reform, shoring up the middle class, the economy, health care for all, etc. They know today’s elections are not about issues. Today’s elections are about who can write the most million-dollar checks.

Shame on the Supreme Court for its Citizens United decision.

And the Supreme Court promises more of the same in the future. In our system of checks and balances, no one checks the Supreme Court.

With the executive and the legislative branches canceling each other out, the Supreme Court reigns as the modern-day American dictator.