America Sold to the Highest Bidder
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I think they should probably put some sort of limit on money you can spand on media, phone calls you can make to people to advertise, etc...
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Also, a lot of principles really haven't changed. They must disclose their donors still, and limits on direct donations to candidates still exist. The only thing that changes is the 527 section where they can now self-produce issue statements. (The case was started because someone could not make a movie critical of Hillary Clinton during a campaign.)
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Actually the USSC ruling may help smaller campaigns more than you may initially think. The way it is now, with campaign finance laws as they are, EVERYONE who enters a race must jump through literally millions of hoops and be aware of all kinds of legal statutes ti enter a race, all done to prove they are not a big corporation or funded by one. With that eased, people can run campaigns out of their living room without that headache that well moneyed campaigns seem able to shoulder just fine.
With full disclosure it actually empowers the voter more to make an informed decision. If they don;t like who's funding Candidate A, nothing stops them from voting for Candidate B.
I would rather have "big money" competing for ideas than one idea being trumpeted unchecked by the collective entity known as "Big Media". If every other entity is limited on what they can say, doesn't the media get a pass to electioneer for their candidate of choice and do so without a fear of being called on it?
Zachattack2 2 years ago
I agree with almost everything you say except it once again comes down the responsible voter etc, and I don't think enough people really get as knowledgeable about their candidates as they should, the only thing this will effect is not the more aware voters, but the more average not as aware voter, which is the majority, not a dumb sense, but more in an apathetic sense, people believe what they hear, and many aren't going to take the time to find out the rest
Coremeister13 2 years ago