To Hand Power 'Back to the People,' House Dems Propose Amendment to Reverse Citizens United | Common Dreams
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As billionaire Elon Musk reshapes the government after pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Trump's campaign, Rep. Jayapal fights back with the We the People Amendment to reverse Citizens United. #EndCitizensUnited

Summary

House Democrats, led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, introduced the We the People Amendment to overturn Citizens United, aiming to curb corporate influence in elections.

The constitutional amendment asserts that constitutional rights apply only to individuals, not corporations, and mandates full disclosure of political contributions.

Jayapal cited Elon Musk’s massive campaign spending and subsequent financial gains as proof of the ruling’s harm.

Advocacy groups praised the move, calling it necessary to combat corporate power and dark money in politics, but Republicans have not backed the proposal.

  • Yggnar@lemmy.world
    32·
    7 days ago

    Alright man, so you are making crap arguments while cherry picking the parts of my comment you are responding to.

    You don’t need to be a congressional historian to understand why the Democrats haven’t ended Citizens United. The real answer comes down to money and lobbying influencing their politics, as well as the filibuster stopping them the few times they have tried, such as when Bernie did in 2014. That would have been an actually valuable point that we could have discussions about.

    Instead, you’re too focused on belittling and insulting me to actually make a valid argument.

    I could break down and respond to every convenient point in your comment and act like a petty little cunt too, but really it comes down to this

    Should the Democrats have been railing about campaign reform at every speech from the moment the SCOTUS inflicted it on us? Yes. Yes they should.

    This is pretty much my whole point.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      31·
      7 days ago

      This is pretty much my whole point.

      If you’d said that, we’d have no argument. I agree! It’s the part about “because they’re all corrupt and they could change anything whenever they wanted” that I disagree with. It’s not just convenient it 's wrong.

      Hindsight is 20/20 and it’s easy to sit back and complain. And it’s true, Democrats are bad at a lot of things - messaging, candidate selection, retiring. But they’re glorious superheroes from heaven compared to the abhorrent chaos monkeys people have let run the show.

      And in part they voted to let them run the show because “both sides bad”. Which is true at only the highest, most generalized levels. It’s essentially classic propaganda. Those high-level generalized views very quickly get clouded by realities as soon as anyone starts to look into it.