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minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50arrow-down1·5 months agoCorporations and businesses can’t vote, so they shouldn’t be able to donate or lobby. Let the employees, owners, and shareholders donate out of their own pockets instead.
minus-squareMarjorineFailureGroan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·5 months agoCitizens United is the framework for some of the worst trends in US politics, but peoples main election concern is tHe eConOmY.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoThe fix to God King presidents is also the fix to Citizens United. I imagine they either both get fixed due to the same action, or they both never get fixed. I don’t think it’s a one or the other situation.
Corporations and businesses can’t vote, so they shouldn’t be able to donate or lobby. Let the employees, owners, and shareholders donate out of their own pockets instead.
Citizens United is the framework for some of the worst trends in US politics, but peoples main election concern is tHe eConOmY.
The fix to God King presidents is also the fix to Citizens United.
I imagine they either both get fixed due to the same action, or they both never get fixed.
I don’t think it’s a one or the other situation.