Some people might ask how we’d get an improvement like this past a Supreme Court that literally believes corporations are people, and money is speech.

Well, for starters I’ll remind you that I’ve already said I don’t have all the answers. But off the top of my head, I’d be inclined to pursue a line of argument that starts with the observation that if we ban paid political advertising in audiovisual forms, we wouldn’t actually be asking anyone to stop speaking.  We just tell them them to do it in a more appropriate place, and not pay or be paid for the activity.

We already do this for sex, so why not politics?

I’m sure there are those who will indignantly claim that politics is nothing like sex.

Really?  I’d point out that it’s already common parlance to describe politicians taking money from people whose causes they don’t really believe in as prostituting themselves.

Even if the black-robed eminences don’t ultimately accept this rather obvious parallel, it would be fine theater of the absurd to see them solemnly craft a precise legal definition of the difference between the world’s oldest profession and politics.