The only way to end the gun lobby's hold on Congress is to get money out of politics.
The horrific Uvalde massacre, and the Republican non-response, confirms what many of us have thought: the U.S. political process is broken. Not "strained" or "damaged" but rather "rent asunder." America's political process can't be repaired by applying duct tape. It needs reconstructive surgery. And that surgery is REAL campaign finance reform.
Corporate campaign contributions (i.e. bribes) has taken democracy captive. Republicans refuse to allow new gun-control legislation because they've sold out to the gun industry lobby and their money.
To take back our Congress from corporations and their lobbyists we must ban private campaign contributions. ALL federal elections must be publicly funded from general taxes. This will be a very modest expense, but yield huge results to the American people.
A major part of campaign finance reform is over-turning the Supreme Court's disastrous Citizen's United decision of 2010. This 5-4 decision absurdly declared that corporate bribes (campaign contributions) are a form of freedom of speech. Citizen's United started a flood of undisclosed black money into our Congress, and turned our elected representatives into the minions of deep-pocket special interests Our elected Reps are supposed to be serving ALL the people, NOT just billionaires and corporations!
If we can enact campaign finance reform we can break the hold of the gun industry, and other corporations, over our Congress.
Corporate campaign contributions (i.e. bribes) has taken democracy captive. Republicans refuse to allow new gun-control legislation because they've sold out to the gun industry lobby and their money.
To take back our Congress from corporations and their lobbyists we must ban private campaign contributions. ALL federal elections must be publicly funded from general taxes. This will be a very modest expense, but yield huge results to the American people.
A major part of campaign finance reform is over-turning the Supreme Court's disastrous Citizen's United decision of 2010. This 5-4 decision absurdly declared that corporate bribes (campaign contributions) are a form of freedom of speech. Citizen's United started a flood of undisclosed black money into our Congress, and turned our elected representatives into the minions of deep-pocket special interests Our elected Reps are supposed to be serving ALL the people, NOT just billionaires and corporations!
If we can enact campaign finance reform we can break the hold of the gun industry, and other corporations, over our Congress.
