Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

merrily

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19. Reality Check.

Fri Dec 5, 2014, 01:48 PM

Dec 2014

Money, including foreign money, has been in US politics since forever, long before Citizens' United.

Before Citizen's United, Congress had every opportunity to enact legislation to get money out of politics and the result of that was McCain Feingold--totally voluntary and something that not even McCain obeyed to the letter.

After Citizen's United, people are proposing an amendment to the Constitution which does nothing but put the power back in the hands of Congress, which did little to nothing to take money out of politics. Even if the amendment were great, it would never pass Congress. If it did pass Congress, it would not get ratified. No constitutional amendment that was even mildly controversial has been ratified since the Eisenhower years.

Look at history. There is no easy way to defeat the plutocrats.

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