Svartalf wrote:No reason to do so, the court won't reverse itself for a good many years, so this surfeit of money in politics is currently a fact of life, not a point for discussion
Bollocks.
She's in the Senate, and the legislature can create new campaign finance reform. Just because the law ruled unconstitutional in Citizens United violated the first amendment doesn't mean all campaign finance legislation violates the first amendment. They can write a new law. Anyone who actually reads the opinion knows it violated free speech rights. Citizens United ruled that the government may not keep corporations or unions from spending money to support or denounce individual candidates in elections. While corporations or unions may not give money directly to campaigns, they may seek to persuade the voting public through other means, including ads, especially where these ads were not broadcast. The actual case of Citizens United involved an advertisement by a non-profit corporation. Section 203 of the law at issue defined an "electioneering communication" as a broadcast, cable, or satellite communication that mentioned a candidate within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary, and prohibited such expenditures by corporations and unions. Citizens United said the government can't tell people not create such broadcasts and communications. And, good fucking thing, too. If the government can tell one corporation it can't do that, then it can tell them all.
The reason they don't speak out now is because their candidate is the big money, establishment candidate.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
