🚨 BREAKING: Congress just reintroduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. 🚨
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Citizens United is kind of a big deal for the Bernie Sanders-style Democrats, which have been putting up more of a fight every election.
This feels like an olive branch to them coming up on midterms from establishment Democrats. It’s more than likely just ceremony: the chances of this passing as a Constitutional Amendment seem pretty slim.
Still a confusing move since the bernie-brohs were hugely redpilled 6 years back.
Well, redpilled in despising Clinton and the Democratic establishment, yes. But that doesn’t mean they’re on Team Trump.
I imagine Schiff is just trying to keep up Democratic participation for midterms, because without Trump in office and with so much other shit going on in the world, a lot of Democrats are understandably worried that people will be lulled into taking a break from voting and civic shit for an election cycle. 2020 was exhausting for everyone and Biden isn’t exactly wowing anyone right now.
Some Bernie bros are here. Myself as a case in point. I was back then thanks to college indoctrination and before I started paying attention and waking up.
What are the implications of potentially overturning "Citizens United", Mr. Random ogre?
Boy oh boy.
What I’d like to say is that politics becomes cleaner and less manipulatable by big money. We stop believing nonsense like there only being two viable political positions. We stop being convinced there is more that differs between us than is similar. Politicians are only funded fairly by people, not corporations, and we feel more confident that our elections are the result of democratic values than the values of whoever can afford to buy a Senator.
In reality, I expect that any political victory brings new problems. It won’t go as far as I want or someone will figure out a new way around it. There will be some unforeseen hitch that cascades into a some new political crisis, as does every major political movement.
That tends to be another area where I differ from most Q people. I don’t see most battles as something that can be won. You beat one evil, one political opponent, one Cabal, and something else will always pop up. There has never been a hope of a total victory in that fight.
And frankly, I don’t think there is supposed to be. We are judged by our commitment to fighting for the right thing, not our ability to secure victory in that fight. As long as I keep trying to figure out what the right thing is and fighting for it, then I’m doing all I can do.
I don't think overturning CU would do everything I hope it would do, nor would any benefits last for the entirety of some million-year reign of the American empire. But it might make things better for right now, and until I see a better solution, I’ll fight for this one and deal with any resulting problems as they come up.