These are the times that try men’s souls… Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.~ Thomas Paine, American Crisis, 1776If you’ve watched or attended a town hall meeting recently, you’ve seen unfiltered outrage over Musk and DOGE. Cutting costs to improve government efficiencies is one thing, who...
The post rightly points out that Citizen United is one of the cornerstones of contemporary American politics and the continued success of Trumpism.
Regrettably, when a law is enacted to make existing laws meaningless, there appears to be no legal path to undo it.
There is no “law” that was passed to enable Citizens United, it was a court case that was interpreted in a stupid way that enabled all of the current political happenings to be possible by allowing “corporations” the ability to flood the zone with cash.
Just need to pass laws that ban that.
Yes and there’s no realistic way to pass a law to ban it. Republicans will not give up their power and any attempt will flood billions into electoral opponents to stop it.
You pass more laws to undo the undoing of prior laws.
Unfortunately it takes way more time to do things right than to undo or undermine things.
The genius of CUvsFEC is they basically made it sure there’s no way back. If a legislator dare to revert this, they will be out-raised and voted out.
I disagree. There was a path to getting it unfucked for a period of time through states and potential constitutional amendment, but the Republicans (naturally) tanked it.
If all of this happening right now does anything, it should definitely be illustrated based on current events this can’t happen again. We’ll need to put the sitting Republicans quick to stop it though.
I’ve seen this before. Who is out there claiming Citizens United is a law?? And there is always a legal path. If space aliens show up and eat Musk there’s a legal path to convict them. Not that we should.