look forward to a future of AOCs and Betos. They will not take money from PACs or dark money. They will be owned only by their constituents.For sure the younger folks are more familiar and adapt at the technologies of the INTERNET/social medias ability to carry their message.
I think Obama had folks who really brought it into the strategy.
Trump has used it as well.
This is why in one of my replies above I brought up the INTERNET and how laws might need to encroach on our freedoms, to protect, that freedom, through privacy invasions.....
That will be a very tall hurdle, doubly so if folks are willing to surrender it to powers that use fear as a tactic to gain it.....nothing new here, either.
Money out of politics is a pipe dream, money is power, always has been, always will be.
Not true. It hasn't always been this way. Before the likes of ronnie, Carter and Ford went with the Presidential Campaign Fund, and that was pretty much it.
Citizens United is one of the biggest threats to our democracy. Money is not speech.Reminds me of stuff like this:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/10/18/the-money-man That is irony on its face!
How is that irony? Funding on either side by the likes of soros, or the koch brothers is what's wrong.I share your hope, but this gal most likely will succumb much faster to the power of which money can buy, justified in order to promote her agenda, against the use of money, in politics ....
I don't think so. That's not what got her there. Just the opposite did. She didn't have a war chest. She got there with her constituency.
Not sure if naďveté will serve us well.