[kelnos]

Unfortunately, campaign finance reform would possibly require a constitutional amendment, or at the very least a big shift in how the supreme court views things (so, not likely in my lifetime), since the current jurisprudence is that limiting campaign donations is a violation of first amendment rights.

[WorldMaker]

Right, I got into some similar details in downstream comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155602

I don't think companies are people, but I also don't expect we'll see a Supreme Court that can overturn that nonsense any time soon.