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To hand power 'back to the people,' House Dems propose amendment to reverse Citizens United
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Long overdue, and probably too late.
True. I really wish they would focus on things they can actually do as the minority. Like, this is performative, but I'm not even sure for who it's supposed to be performative. Do dems honestly think there's even a single voter out there with the attitude of "well I wasn't going to vote next year, but after seeing dems moonshot yet another dead-on-arrival amendment about a 15-year old court ruling I'm on board!"
Look at what republicans were able to accomplish on the level of school boards, counties, churches, state houses, election commissions, etc while they were out of power and steal their playbook for goodness sake 😒
But if they didnt we would complain why arent they trying. At least someone is trying.
Or trying to look like they are trying. "Trying" kind of implies at least a tiny sliver of a chance of actually succeeding, which this, at the current political moment, absolutely does not have. Believe me, I'm all for them trying stuff, but this might as well be proposing eliminating the electoral collage, electing Senators based on population, or passing the ERA. I'm all for all of those things, but they are a total pipedream from our current position. I just really really don't think there is an appreciable number of voters out there who think that now is the time for democrats to be showing off their impossible Christmas wish list because "people will complain if we don't". What people are complaining about is Dems puttering around having meetings and proposing non-starter solutions rather than owning the fact that they got stomped this time and should now switch to organizing the type of ground-level resistance that worked such wonders for the republicans the last 10 years.