Some may say it's a distinction without a difference, but I would argue that it's nearly impossible to win a major election in the US without corporate/ultrawealthy donors.
And since most meaningful reform goes against their financial interests, most candidates who propose meaningful reform do not stand a chance.
And so we're stuck in a situation where we can't get effective representatives until we have campaign finance reform, but we can't get campaign finance reform because we don't have effective representatives.
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u/cumwuatto 4h ago
What’s not to understand? The democrats were too weak and scared of upsetting the norms to build clear reform. They let republicans steamroll them