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.
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.