GOP salivates at the biggest campaign finance win since Citizens United
GOP salivates at the biggest campaign finance win since Citizens United
It could be a seismic shift in how tens of millions of campaign dollars are spent.
Republicans have waged a decades-long battle to blow up the campaign-finance laws that rein in big-money spending. Now, they are making a play that could end in their biggest victory since the Citizens United ruling in 2010.
The GOP is growing increasingly optimistic about their prospects in a little-noticed lawsuit that would allow official party committees and candidates to coordinate freely by removing current spending restrictions. If successful, it would represent a seismic shift in how tens of millions of campaign dollars are spent and upend a well-established political ecosystem for TV advertising.
An eventual victory in the lawsuit, filed last November by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, would eliminate the need for House and Senate campaign committees of any party to set up separate operations to make so-called independent expenditures to boost candidates with TV ads.
The biggest issue here isn't even this campaign finance change.
The biggest issue is that once again Republicans push a decades-long battle.
Conservatives play the long game. They push their agenda for years and decades at a time until it starts to stick.
Liberals can't focus on one topic for more than a few weeks or months before they jump onto the next big travesty that they try (but usually fail) to solve. The Left has the attention plan of a goldfish.
There's a reason why RvW has been thrown out, gun laws are the loosest they've been in decades and campaign finance changes happen, while we still don't have universal healthcare, parental leave, mandatory minimum holidays, etc. One side can look at the big picture and plan their strategy over many, many years, while the other side is endlessly losing focus by jumping to some fake crisis after another and never accomplishing anything.
Liberals can’t focus on one topic for more than a few weeks or months before they jump onto the next big travesty
No, it's more that there are a diverse group of liberals all trying to get attention for whatever issue their pocket is trying to address. The conservatives only care about one issue: Being at the top of the hierarchy. This means they're all working toward similar, reinforcing goals.
It's not an attention span issue. It's a divergent needs issue.
Yeah, and which one gets things done? Maybe the Left should wake the fuck up and realize that focusing in on a handful of issues COLLECTIVELY will go a hell of a lot further than a million smaller issues focused in on by dozens of different sub-groups.
Conservatives get shit done by falling in-line and accepting that what is good for the larger group will help smaller conservative groups in the long run. A rising tide raises all ships.
Will Rogers said it best, "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."
The USA's days as a "democratic republic" are numbered. The only thing we can do is slow down the decent a little bit. Don't fool yourself that this country isn't on a fast track to christofascism. Its game man. Not only are we dealing with it from within we also have china and Russia foaming at the mouth with how successful their propaganda has been. 40 percent of this country is cheering it on and can't wait to become the spitting image of Russia.
Things are going to get a lot worse and I think it will happen faster than you think. Look how fast Florida took..... It was a swing state not long ago. Now it's one of the testing spots for how fascism will work in this country.
If you aren't a white Christian male you better figure out how to pretend to be one. Or at the very least get out of red states while you can if you can.
Because it doesn't seem like anybody in this country is willing to really fight against it. Off to the next thing I'm outraged about for a week and then moving on.
The new world order is coming and it's going to suck even worse.
Vote like your life depends on it because it just might.
Are you just telling me to grow a duck?
Not sure how a duck would help but I can't imagine it would hurt. Now if you're talking about growing a dick you can either do that in your garden or pick one up at your local grocery store. The fun thing about growing your own dick is you can grow it to whatever size fits your needs. Just insert it into your manliest pants and they'll be none the wiser.
Also make sure you wear like a really gaudy gold cross necklace. Then you just want to go around town stating really ignorant things that you believe in that are very easily disproven. You really want to trick them you may have to indulge in their racist, homophobic, transphobic, or really any kind of derogatory talk will work.
OK, but:
upend a well-established political ecosystem for TV advertising
boost candidates with TV ads
Even my Boomer parents are going streaming-only now; political consultants still love TV ads because they make lots of money off of them, and the need to spend lots of money on TV also powers the small-dollar fundraising / "can you rush me $17 RIGHT NOW" machine from which all sorts of awful people likewise take a generous cut, but how much of an impact is this actually likely to have?
The article note that actual voters probably won’t see much of a difference. The main effect is an even more direct big donor to candidate money pipeline that will mean they’ll have even more influence than they already do.
Plus precedent of course, I imagine it’s usually easier to chip away at campaign finance regulations when you can cite other cases as evidence, but I’m no lawyer.
TV ads
Does anyone watch TV ads anymore? I haven't watched a single TV ad since the NFL season ended in February. Even then I always mute.
What you talkin' bout? I get political "TV" ads on my YouTube all the time. Same on all streaming services. Hell, I have even seen them on games when I am being forced to watch them for whatever abusive advertising game I decided to stupidly try this week.
I am pretty sure that the law does not distinguish.
Older people do. Higher level of voting too