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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Can someone explain how an individual can oppose citizens United, but support Hillary? [View all]senz
(11,945 posts)25. CU said MONEY = SPEECH and WEALTH = POLITICAL POWER.
That is the problem with it.
The specific altercation that brought the case to the court is not the point.
Justice Stevens' dissent stated what is wrong with CU:
At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics
This is what Bernie is fighting against: CU is undemocratic. Hillary has no problem with it because it enhances her political power and that of her friends. She could care less that it's undemocratic.
And you know it.
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Can someone explain how an individual can oppose citizens United, but support Hillary? [View all]
onecaliberal
Mar 2016
OP
Well, I support repealing the 2A and I still support Bernie even though he is NRA friendly.
LonePirate
Mar 2016
#3
History doesn't lie. Sanders won his first election through the influence of the NRA.
CalvinballPro
Mar 2016
#10
You know Citizen United was about her...against her? They wanted to run a crappy
all american girl
Mar 2016
#7
People can rationalize anything and this election they have a viable alternative but still
Jefferson23
Mar 2016
#12
I think right now its hard to know definitively why he does not have the majority support.
Jefferson23
Mar 2016
#33
Pro-Bernie, Against Citizens United. Also against bringing a butter knife to a gunfight
emulatorloo
Mar 2016
#28