Summary
House Democrats, led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, introduced the We the People Amendment to overturn Citizens United, aiming to curb corporate influence in elections.
The constitutional amendment asserts that constitutional rights apply only to individuals, not corporations, and mandates full disclosure of political contributions.
Jayapal cited Elon Musk’s massive campaign spending and subsequent financial gains as proof of the ruling’s harm.
Advocacy groups praised the move, calling it necessary to combat corporate power and dark money in politics, but Republicans have not backed the proposal.
I hate to say it but proposing a constitutional amendment is just virtue signaling at this point. There isn’t a snowballs chance in hell this passes even with 100% democrat support.
I appreciate the thought and effort but put forth legislation that actually has a chance at passing.
Virtue signaling is an important act for a minority party. It lets the base know what you stand for and what your opponents stand against. This is something with broad public appeal yet low congressional support (because politicians like monies). It’s something you can hit your opponents with and, with a snowball’s chance, you might actually make progress in passing.
“I want to take money out of politics, my opponent is captured by rich billionaires. They don’t serve you, they serve the billionaires” It’s an ad that writes itself.
This is something dems should be doing, especially since the last election was them running away from policy and instead doubling down on how much their policy isn’t different from the average republican’s. We saw how that turned out.
But its a lie… they had the chance to make this a reality, but they honestly don’t care. They can try to appeal to progressives but it’s too late.
No, they didn’t. When did they have a chance to pass a constitutional amendment?
Can you link any speeches of Biden using the bully pulpit to try to get something like that passed? He didn’t. Liberals look for any excuse they can think of to weasel out of helping us. The way they cried that couldn’t even try to forgive student loans because their own parliamentarian supposedly said they couldn’t was such bs.
I hate Trump with a passion, but Trump is showing the whole world how much power Biden and Obama had but refused to use. Trump is showing everyone that liberals cared more about “norms” than actually helping us
There are a LOT of things Trump & co are doing right now that are beyond presidential power or even downright illegal. Biden and Obama didn’t act like this because they couldn’t. Trump’s acting fast because the people that wrote project 2025 planned it like that. They took a bet that the rest of the country would just watch them, mouth open and do nothing. Seems they were right.
Virtue signaling is different than signaling virtues. Here it’s referring to halfassing it when they can’t actually do anything about it.
I will never understand what is wrong with virtue signalling. We should all be happy when people feel pressured to publicly state that they stand with good things and against bad things. Plus, it’s not like they’re lying: if it gets called to vote then they’ll all show their colors, and if it doesn’t get called to vote then it forces the opponents to show theirs.
As much as I like to imagine a world where everyone understands politics enough to know Republicans are against removing money from politics, we clearly do not.
You mean political theater. “Virtue signaling” is a nonsense term that fascists use.