Counter Plutocracy with Public Financing
via the Washington Post
Plutocracy is on the rise in the United States. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United v. FEC and McCutcheon v. FEC allow corporations and wealthy individuals to donate unprecedented amounts to political campaigns, giving them megaphones in the public square.
There is a way, however, to amplify the voices of people who lack bulging bank accounts so that they can be heard as well — without using the highly problematic and Sisyphean route of amending the Constitution or waiting years for the Supreme Court to reverse its damaging decisions. Notably, it’s happening in Montgomery County, the home county of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
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