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Because I feel it's necessary to challenge this... > If any generation had the power to change things how things ended up today, it was yours. To pick one exam
by bmelton 10y ago
Because I feel it's necessary to challenge this...
> If any generation had the power to change things how things ended up today, it was yours. To pick one example: all the supreme court justices who presided over the Citizens United case were appointed during your prime years.
The laws overturned in Citizens United had only been on the books a scant few years, and those laws made exercises of free speech illegal.
Whether or not big money in politics is a problem, the Citizens United decision was decided in favor of free speech moreso than in favor of dark money, and it's quite likely that if you voted for the presidents who appointed the majority justices in citizens united that you also voted for the guy whose law was overturned by it. Ergo, casting it as a one-side versus the other form of complicity does not work.