Ok I think it has become common to laud Bernie Sanders as the champion of campaign finance reform. This is true insofar as he has been yelling “Citizens United” and “billionaires” a lot recently, but the idea that Bernie is the savior and the Democrats want to promote the evil superPACs is blatantly absurd.
The instant the Citizens United v. FEC ruling came down, Democrats were instantly outraged and vowed to fix it. The problem is that it is no longer a legislative issue.
This is because Congress already tried to fix things with the McCain-Feingold Act of 2002 which was explicitly designed to decrease the role of soft money and prevent corporate sponsored campaign ads from appearing close to a primary or election (no that’s not redundant, primaries and elections are different things).
But then the “conservative non-profit group” (read: right-wing propaganda factory) known as Citizens United didn’t think this was fair. They believed their money was speech and managed to convince the supreme court that parts of McCain-Feingold were against the first amendment. In particular, they thought it was unfair that they weren’t allowed to air an ad called Hillary: The Movie within 30 days of the 2008 Democratic Primaries. This was of course the same nonsense slander the GOP has been perpetrating against Secretary Clinton since she entered the national conversation in 1992. Let’s back up a second. Citizens United wanted to attack Hillary Rodham Clinton and now Bernie Sanders is bludgeoning Hillary over the head with it. With the court case that was all about the right to ruthlessly attack her. Hillary was THE INTENDED VICTIM of the Citizens United decision.
Oh look it’s a white guy victim blaming. How very new and different.
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