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calimary

(81,107 posts)
2. Yeah, truly.
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 10:18 PM
Jun 2012

That is Job One.

As long as they have the money advantage, and such a secretive money advantage at that, they're gonna run the table. And we're going to be at a serious disadvantage.

Citizens United HAS TO BE undone.

It just occurred to me - it may be more likely that we do get Citizens United undone. We now have a very glaring Exhibit A writ in frickin' NEON as to why it URGENTLY has to be overturned. If we'd prevailed (which, hey, I'd be delirious with job about that if it were so), there'd be an argument to be made that - well, see, they can even throw something as fucked as Citizens United at us and somehow, we prevailed, "money can't buy you guvs," and maybe there wouldn't be such a sense of urgency that THIS setback, now, will engender. But let's be realistic here. That money is a problem. We're supposed to be a a nation that's all about a level playing field. Citizens United turns that level playing field practically vertical.

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