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MicroWave Feb 14, 2025

To hand power 'back to the people,' House Dems propose amendment to reverse Citizens United

To hand power 'back to the people,' House Dems propose amendment to reverse Citizens United - Lemmy.World

Summary House Democrats, led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, introduced the We the People Amendment to overturn Citizens United, aiming to curb corporate influence in elections. The constitutional amendment asserts that constitutional rights apply only to individuals, not corporations, and mandates full disclosure of political contributions. Jayapal cited Elon Musk’s massive campaign spending and subsequent financial gains as proof of the ruling’s harm. Advocacy groups praised the move, calling it necessary to combat corporate power and dark money in politics, but Republicans have not backed the proposal.

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Melatonin Feb 14, 2025

So they throw this impossible task out there, something they can put all their energy and rhetoric into which will ultimately not bear results in my lifetime, and they can say see I was fighting against this tyranny.

This is such a bald-face transparent PR move I hope everyone sees it for what it is.

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batcheck

We just have to admit that the representative democracy system, in its current form, suffers from the same flaws as other systems. It’s done a great job at elevating people a bit, but we hit a new ceiling of how prosperous the average person is.

I really want the conversations to be more around iterating on representative democracy. In this day and age we should be able to have our voices/votes heard more on each topic.

I don’t think we’ll ever move on to the next step of human societal development until we stop concentrating power. Us picking a representative in the hopes that they will proxy vote for what we actually want them to vote for does not work.