1. Citizens United como el Golpe Fatal a la Democracia.
La decisión de 2010 de la Corte Suprema es vista como el punto de inflexión que transformó el sistema político de EE. UU. en una plutocracia o corporatocracia, donde las elecciones se han convertido en subastas controladas por los más ricos.
- Citizens united did more to damage democracy than any other action in the history of this nation.
- The disastrous 2010 citizens united decision legitimized corruption and put our elections on sale to the highest bidder. It was the beginning of the end of true democracy.
- Citizens united legalized political bribery. The highest bidders won years ago. Citizens united was the end of whatever illusion of a democracy the us had left.
- To be more precise, our democracy was dealt its fatal blow with citizens united.
2. El Problema del Dinero Oscuro, PACs y la Corrupción Legalizada.
La afluencia ilimitada de "dinero oscuro" (dark money) a través de PACs y Super PACs ha ahogado la voz de los votantes comunes. La premisa de que "el dinero es discurso" y "las corporaciones son personas" es ampliamente rechazada como la raíz de la corrupción sistémica.
- Citizens united lets corporations drown democracy in cash, treating money as speech while silencing actual subverts one person, one vote, making policy for shareholders, not voters.
- The rampant corruption we see today is rooted in citizens united vs. Fec, a disastrous supreme court decision that declared money is speech and corporations are people.
- Super pacs are destroying whats left of american democracy. For over a decade, these billionaire-funded mega-pacs have served as legal loopholes, allowing corporations and the ultra-wealthy to pump unlimited, often anonymous money into our elections.
- Citizens united ruling by a corrupt scotus is an attempt to undermine democracy. Corporations are not people money is not speech.
3. La Solución: La Necesidad de Derogar Citizens United y Reformar las Finanzas de Campaña.
Existe un fuerte consenso, a menudo bipartidista, en la necesidad urgente de revertir la decisión Citizens United y sacar el dinero de la política para restaurar la democracia, considerándolo un paso esencial para la supervivencia del sistema.
- Overturning it is not just desirableits essential for the survival of our democracy. Overturncu.
- We are going to have to get dark money out of politics and that means overturning citizens united and buckley.
- 75 of americans oppose citizens united the citizens united decision closed the door on using campaign finance reform to limit corporate influence in our politics, and thats been the major hurdle preventing every effort to reclaim our elections.
- The vast majority of americans no matter their partisan identification say unlimited political spending weakens democracy and wealthy donors have too much power in elections, a new national poll indicates.