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"Hey I know just made more money than the Roman empire was worth by manipulating politics but ummmmm... could you please make rules that stop you from beating everyone else?"
The time to stop this was in 2016. Democrats had every opportunity and continued to fellate their corporate overlords instead of even paying lip service to their base. We're in the "find out" phase. I'm sorry you're losing your job, but guess what, it only gets worse from here
Citizens United decision was in 2010, and after 2011 they lost the votes needed ever since, so probably more like 2010/2011 was the only time they had enough power to do anything about it.
To be clear, a law banned PACs in 2002 but the courts decided that banning the pacs violated the first ammendment, meaning that simply passing a new law wouldn't cut it. You would need either a constitutional amendment, replacing the courts, or some other measure involving a supermajority.
I remember calling it the last free election back then and people said I was being dramatic.
15 years of examples later, Project 2025 is on our doorstep and I'm still being dramatic ..
Great point. I'm sure like most things related to shitty American politics if you go back far enough there's Reagan bullshit in there too. We had a lot of opportunities to not be here, and yet here we are
Yeah I really wish I didn't have to think about Reagan's bullshit like all the time.
A. Fucking. Men. Brother
Just to add a little bit of humour to this situation:
Reading your comment without the periods becomes "a fucking men brother" which can be interpreted however you like
Nixon was terrible, but the ball really, REALLY got rolling under Ronnie Raygun.