Mostly, I agree with you. I loathe ActBlue because they spam me with these sorts of "you don't need to think, just hit that panic button in your brain and give money" emails. (And because no matter how often I unsubscribe, if I'm doing a monthly donation through them I get re-subscribed when it processes.)
That being said, a serious, reasoned, high-profile debate about the influence of money on politics is going to attract money influencing it - the more high-profile / higher likelihood of anything actually happening from it, the more money, and the more pressure. If the debate takes a long time, that pressure will have a lot longer to act.
My Constitutional history is not strong, but my general impression is that many amendments happened as a result of a suddenly-rising wave of popular support. (Probably with support from people who'd been futilely beating that drum for a long time.) I might be wrong, but if I'm not, "strike while the iron is hot" is probably relevant.
Which again, isn't to say that you're wrong, nor that they're not being irritating about it.
(To start the discussion: what's your take on corporate personhood?)
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Date: 2017-08-26 04:59 am (UTC)That being said, a serious, reasoned, high-profile debate about the influence of money on politics is going to attract money influencing it - the more high-profile / higher likelihood of anything actually happening from it, the more money, and the more pressure. If the debate takes a long time, that pressure will have a lot longer to act.
My Constitutional history is not strong, but my general impression is that many amendments happened as a result of a suddenly-rising wave of popular support. (Probably with support from people who'd been futilely beating that drum for a long time.) I might be wrong, but if I'm not, "strike while the iron is hot" is probably relevant.
Which again, isn't to say that you're wrong, nor that they're not being irritating about it.
(To start the discussion: what's your take on corporate personhood?)