2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Imagine if our civil rights champions had the same disdain for pragmatism as some BS supporters have [View all]Hekate
(90,656 posts)It means money has gone from being the mother's milk of politics (a very old saying) to being its very life's blood, and we simply cannot escape that at the present time. It is what it is and candidates who want to win have to figure out how to use it.
What it's going to take to overturn it is a series of lower court cases and decisions (note that Congress has left many benches vacant because ... Obama) that work their way up successively until they reach the Supreme Court again. How many years will this take? Gods only know, but that is the system.
At which point, the members of the SCOTUS become absolutely critical. The next president will have the opportunity to replace not one but several Justices, and the tone of the Court will outlast the President's term of office for a generation. Those will be the people who can overturn Citizens United, which I really want to see happen.
You're right, I like Hillary as a candidate. I always have. I was truly torn in 2008, but that's another story. By now I think she's grown, as well.
And -- I want a candidate who can win the general election.
So yeah, we can agree to disagree. I'm more than fine with that.
Thank you for you kind words. Back atcha.