1. El Legado Corruptor de Citizens United.
La decisión de la Corte Suprema de 2010 es identificada como el punto de inflexión que permitió la entrada de cantidades ilimitadas de dinero corporativo y de multimillonarios en las elecciones, equiparando el dinero con la libertad de expresión y destruyendo la democracia.
- We must overturn citizens united. Money is not speech, it is not intelligence, it is not inherent value, and it does not give one the right to control politics.
- Citizens united really put us under. Allowing big money into politics led to the oligarchy we have now. That needs to be reversed, should we ever get out of this!
- Scotus corrupt citizens united decision gave power to dark money donations, which helps billionaires corporations to drown voters political power.
- Undoing citizen united would be a blessing. Could we end corporate money in politics?
2. La Influencia del Dinero Oscuro y la Oligarquía.
El archivo subraya que el sistema actual es un "pago por jugar" (pay to play), donde el dinero oscuro, los Super PACs y los donantes multimillonarios compran la lealtad de los políticos, resultando en un gobierno que sirve a intereses especiales y no a la gente común.
- Big money is dictating all our political outcomes. We must demand far more of our elected representatives. We must demand that all private money be removed from any public campaign.
- End the era of billionaires buying congress. From dark money to super pac loopholes, our campaign finance system is legalized corruption.
- The thing is, our government is and has been pay to play. We have been an oligarchy much longer than people recognize.
- Both us political parties are corrupted by dirty dark billionaire money as a direct result of the bad roberts court decision on citizens united.
3. Soluciones Propuestas: Sacar el Dinero de la Política.
La solución más recurrente es la eliminación total del dinero privado en las campañas, abogando por la financiación pública de las elecciones y la implementación de estrategias estatales, como el "Plan Montana", para eludir la sentencia de Citizens United.
- Get rid of all money in politics we are here in part because of the corrupting influence money has on the simple act of choosing our representative government.
- We need to get money out of politics. Capped individual contributions only. Removal of citizens united.
- This scotus will never overturn citizens united. But we can get big money out of politics, by 100 public funding of elections.
- States can amend their constitutions, making it illegal for corporations to use dark money in politics. Blue state governors have no excuse not to use this weapon against the oligarchs.