• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago
    1. No, it was overturned in 2010, not decades ago. The law the decision overturned was the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which was over 2 decades ago. The DNC had been trying to pass it since 1995.

    2. You people always complain about a party not changing things when we NEVER give them the power to do so.

    President Barack Obama and Senator John Kerry called for an amendment to overrule the decision but it went ignored. In 2011, Senator Bernie Sanders proposed the Saving American Democracy Amendment, which would reverse the court’s ruling, LINK HERE. Bernie Sanders and others have repeatedly introduced bills to reverse it ever since.

    The reason things are the way they are is because people vote Republican. Full Stop.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      when we NEVER give them the power to do so

      “We” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I’m not voting Republican, you’re not voting Republican, and Luigi isn’t voting Republican.

      “do nothing about it until the midterms at which point we will suddenly convince 200 million people to vote Democrat” isn’t going to cut it.