Fuck Citizens United.
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2024
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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
I'm probably butchering this one, but: "The law is equal as it is illegal for both a poor man and a rich man to sleep under a bridge."
Their votes are worth more than yours.
Their "free speech" is more powerful because it is neither free nor speech but receives those very protections because of a fucking corrupt right wing SCOTUS decision
Imaging putting all that money into something useful like against the climate crisis.
This is functionally spending money on the climate crisis, on the side of the crisis.
Oil Industry to Trump: We'll give you a billion dollars if you fuck up the planet even more when you're in office
Trump: Yea
Source: Literally every news organization in the US
Source: Trump himself, when he constantly repeats "Drill, baby, drill."
He unironically asked them to pay him. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/climate/trump-oil-gas-mar-a-lago.html
Imagine the return on investment.
a sustainable planet on which you can continue to exploit the workforce and customers, a capitalistic dream!
The "victory funds" that Hillary started, Biden continued, and then handed of to Kamala means the legal limit went from 2.5k a person to close to a million.
Because of the loopholes that's used to accomplish that, it also means state parties are drastically underfunded.
And republicans aren't going to just sit there and not do it too, it's likely why trump put his daughter in law in charge of the RNC purse strings.
Neither party wants to change it. Because they both like money and it's easier to get a million from a billionaire than 2.5k from 400 regular Americans, and that's not getting into how "regular Americans" can't afford 2.5k in the first place
If you still didnt understand why both parties cater to the rich, this is why it's gotten even worse since 2016 when Hillary devised this bullshit.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/
This all goes back to citizens united and giving rights to entities that only exist on paper.
You can definitely say that's where it started.
But instead of fixing it, both parties are trying to find more way for the wealthiest to give as much money as possible.
Neither want it fixed, they just want the money
this is true. some individuals in congress want to like bernie but overall no movement.
And if Hillary hadn't taken over the DNC in the 2016 primary by doing even more shady shit than Citizen's, Bernie would have likely won. Fixed Citizen's and be at the end of his second term.
Unfortunately that didn't happen.
Neoliberals are not on the same side as progressives, we just dont have any other options when primaries have become purely theatrical, if were even lucky enough to get that.
Loads of states only get to vote in a primary weeks or months after the candidate has been "decided" having no say in who the candidate is hurts general turnout and helps Republicans. That's not even getting I to how NH got their primary stolen this year because they kept voting for progressives.
We certainly got a theatrical primary this year.
I'm honestly a little shocked more people aren't upset that party operatives essentially chose the candidate for us twice in a row.
They ignored us when we said Biden was too old and then waited until we couldn't run another primary and leaned on the sham primary "where everyone voted Biden" and then when it became clear he WAS too fucking old and they could no longer hide it, they had party apparatchiks choose the candidate for us.
I am pleased at the momentum behind her because the alternative is outright fascism, but it's clear Harris is a party choice, not a people choice.
Until they can jail the whole board and the C-suite, corporations aren't people.
United States of Aristocracy.
Eat the rich.
This seems fair.
/s
Kinda puts my $25 into perspective.
Yes and no. Before Howard Dean, people thought their $25 was important for them but otherwise didn't do much. He showed that enough $25 is the same as huge donations. We really hadn't seen crowdfunding in politics before that.
Which is why President Dean beat GWB.
Can donating to campaigns be considered gambling?
I know it's a stretch, but if that could be argued, then there may be a possible lawsuit to be brought to court about funding campaigns across state lines.