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anonym29 6 hours ago

"Citizens" United (which allows unlimited corporate political donations by classifying them as "speech", for those out of the loop) has fundamentally changed the core incentive structures of the modern political landscape. To compare a pre-CU world to a post-CU world when it comes to matters at the intersection of corporate interests and government regulatory / legislative power is comparing apples to oranges.

We need to overturn CU if we want to be able to go back to a world where government serves people rather than multinational conglomerates.

parineum 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> We need to overturn CU

Or we could stop looking at SCOTUS to fix legislation and ask the branch of government who's job it is to fix legislation, Congress.

anonym29 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That would be nice in principle, yes, but in a CU world, that's asking the fox to vote to lock itself out of the hen house.

In practice most of the foxes that promise to do so never actually will.

What's your proposal to solve this?