Beyond McCutcheon: Deeper Questions Demand Raising

[Commentary] Everyone's taking about the Supreme Court's perfectly predictable "Citizens United 2" McCutcheon decision. It's what we are not talking about that worries me.

Ironically, the far right that many on the left see as the only beneficiary of a decision that treats money and free speech as if they are the same thing, is also not happy with it. They wanted, and may still get, the end of all campaign finance reform. This decision keeps individual giving caps in place and, in the Right's view doesn't go far enough -- although in their war of many slashes and cuts, they clearly see laws and policies trending in their direction.

Yes, the Court decision is bad for those of us who still believe, naively perhaps, that politics should not be dominated by the superrich, and their corporate order. But no, McCutcheon is not going to sink the Good Ship democracy that, like that Malaysian airliner, may have already been heading for those waves.

[Schechter is Founder and executive editor, MediaChannel]