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by daveguy 597 days ago
The Citizens United decision and resulting Super PACs are one of the worst things to happen to US democracy. Money is not speech. Free flow of untraceable money into our elections means that political ads cost more for the direct candidates because of competition. There's only so many hours in the day so if someone can buy ads for 95% of the reserved ad time, by necessity all other speech is reduced. I think we need a constitutional amendment to address it.