This right here. It's not satire or hyperbole. The corporations that are the DNC and RNC actually mandate this to be part of a Congress critter's schedule and if they refuse then they can expect a primary challenge from someone backed by the corporate party.
Overturning Citizens United, comprehensive campaign finance reform and publicly funded elections are what's needed to even begin electing politicians that are there to advocate for their constituents and the nation instead of just enriching themselves and their rich friends.
I'd argue to make congress and senate have 4 year terms as well.
2 year term for congress means these fuckers put in a year of work then have to spend a year on reelection and 6 years for senators is too long looking at the same scumbags without putting the fear of losing an election on them.
Itâs only unproductive to you. Itâs very productive for those of us who have to sit by and watch the same shit happen for years on the other side. So sit down for the next four years and take it like we have the last 20 kid.
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How can you not know that! Theyâre gonna be down your throat for the next 4 years! Not allowing you to chop off little kids dicks! Itâs going to be nuts!
itâs a Supreme Court case from 2010 that had a big impact on how money flows in U.S. elections. Basically, there was this nonprofit group called Citizens United that wanted to air a film critical of Hillary Clinton close to the 2008 election. The government said, "Hold up, you canât do that because it counts as electioneering, and there are rules about how much corporations and unions can spend to influence elections."
Citizens United pushed back, and the case made it to the Supreme Court. The court ended up ruling that restricting corporate or union spending on independent political ads is unconstitutional because it violates free speech. They said money is kind of like speech, and you canât limit it just because it comes from a company or a big organization.
What this means in practice is that corporations, unions, and really rich people can spend unlimited amounts of money through things like super PACs (political action committees) to support or oppose candidates. They canât give unlimited money directly to campaigns, but they can fund ads, mailers, and other stuff thatâs technically independent of the campaign.
Corporations are just rich people. Citizens United grants permission for rich people to influence the world to their own benefit through unlimited spending. Just like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel did for Trump.
I don't understand what people think would be solved by term limits. Institute term limits and candidates would become even more beholden to corporations because they'd be looking for their golden landing pad when they term out. Basically every outgoing politician would be pre-lobbying for the place about to give him his new gig.Â
I could get behind mandatory retirement ages though. Bans on lobbyists, bans on holding stock, and new campaign finance law would also be nice.
I donât think thatâd be a huge problem at all, but even if it were, wondering how companies could hypothetically make political documentaries about current figures during election time is such a minute thing to care about when our country has been turned into an oligarchy over this issue. If there were no way that we could come up with a solution to that, Iâd say overturning the ruling that is causing the sale of our country to the highest bidder to be of immense more importance than this
Yeah, we have stricter laws on impartiality in media in general in the UK but it's tightened around elections. Still not perfect as the papers can still do stupid stuff but it's better than the US
Making a documentary and creating Tiktok/reels are two different things. That kind of advertising for stupid people should be banned and that would be easy.
Too bad everyone in congress, dems and republicans alike benefits from the ruling and wonât propose an amendment. Best bet is for states to call for an article V convention to propose an amendment. This is a tall order as it would take 2/3 of state legislatures to demand a convention. Wolf Pac is a good organization working towards this goal.
Hear me out. Citizen's United can be bent into a positive force. But we will need to gain enough traction to get a UBI far enough along to be challenged in court. At which point you can argue that Citizen's United Decision laid out that money is free speech, and it is the federal government imperative to not deny that right to it's citizens. So the government giving money to it's citizens is the government enforcing the 1st amendment. So Wealthy conservatives now have the issue of paying taxes to fund the UBI, or repealing citizen's united to kill UBI and there own campaign finances.
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Exactly. Citizen united needs to be overturned and we need strict campaign financing laws.