• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    It takes that much because Citizens United opened the floodgates for unbounded political spending. It’d be a lot more sane if elections were exclusively publicly funded, but the Tribunal of Six would probably think that’s unconstitutional or something, even if the legislation made it through congress (which it probably wouldn’t).