Comment on China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Remember when democrats were saying that citizens united would open the door to foreign influence on elections and republicans said the law had nothing to do with that and was free speech thing to make videos about Hillary Clinton?
Then it paved the way for super PACs, dark money and a direct donation to bank account pipeline that totally isn’t a bribe.
Remember how US elections were before citizens united? Remember how it was before republicans on the Supreme Court said the rules need to change to allow all that money that wasn’t ever needed previously for 100+ years of democracy to function… cause reasons…
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Congress could fix it if they felt they needed to.
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Shitty take. “Congress” assumes republicans don’t exist.
publicintegrity.org/…/democrats-say-citizens-unit…
Dems have introduced plenty of bills to address this including a constitutional amendment in Jan 2023. The article I quoted really only criticizes dems for not solving this 2010 issue back in 2008 when they used a majority to expand access to healthcare instead.
Mean while GOP leaders are on tape literally saying “putin pays two people, trump and rotabacher” (hint they are both republicans)
The issue isn’t CONGRESS it’s REPUBLICANS.
Im not lumping in Dems because they didn’t single handedly usher in a utopia in 2 years after Bush cratered the economy.
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I half agree, but I do think this is a more bipartisan problem than most. The congresspeople who got into office through this system aren’t likely to change it.
I bet if it came down to it, you’d get support from half of Democrats and near zero Republicans. That’s a far cry from the 2/3rds of Congress needed.
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well we can assume and “bet” both sides suck or we can objectively look at the actions of the parties over the past decade and inform the opinion.
Every dem that introduced legislation against citizens united still has to run in an election where it’s the law of the land. They still had to win to be able to create the legislation in the first place.
Nothing is a perfect black and white split and it’s foolish to discount the one party trying to do anything about it because if they don’t participate in the system they can’t win a seat at the table and if they try to eliminate or reform the system you subject the whole party to a purity test.
Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Republicans are part of Congress, and control the house. Because they benefit from this law, they have no need to change it. So no Congress won’t be changing it unless at least Democrats have more control of Congress