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>All he ever mentions is "overturning Citizens United", which
>Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and every mainstream Democrat
>are also on record vehemently supporting.
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>How do you do it? Nobody's gonna amend the Constitution over
>something like this. So all you can do is try to change the
>makeup of the Supreme Court, and leave it to them. Barack
>Obama has already nominated someone who would shift the
>balance of the court. Hillary would either stick with him or
>choose someone younger and/or to the left of him. Bernie would
>do the same.
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>They have identical positions on campaign finance reform.

Oh wow, you were like actually serious. Um, are you familiar with Bernie's current campaign finance system? Bernie has actually gone BEYOND rhetoric and has overturned Citizens United himself. He doesn't have a Super PAC or take corporate contributions to his campaign. What he is demonstrating is that you do not need to be beholding to these special interests pouring tons of money into the political process. It is the basis for his entire point about Hillary's Wall Street transcripts: how can you expect someone to be hard on an entity where they have accepted millions of dollars of contributions from them?

I get it, a politicians #1 priority is to be elected, and reelected. Without that they can't do anything. But the process we have in place now makes it to where our elected officials spend 70-90% of their time fundraising, and it makes them prone to special interests and lobbies, because having that person in their pocket puts less financial pressure on them for fundraising. However, in exchange they have to be more lenient on these entities, and prioritize them in legislative considerations. Even Obama in all of his glowing rhetoric about transparency and lobbyists in Washington reneged on his positions once Wall Street poured a ton of money into his campaign.

Bernie doesn't have that problem because he was actually bold enough to buck the system. He is an anti establishment candidate who has an anti establishment investment and cache of support. He is not beholden to them because he doesn't represent them. He has been staunchly against their corporate welfare for DECADES. Rhetoric given in a debate for PR isn't going to fly from Hillary. Bernie talks and walks, and his campaign has further backed it up.

The last legislation I saw for introducing campaign finance reform was to make the buy in an option on tax returns for citizens. They could either elect to pay $3 of their refunds to a pool of money which will be used on the federal level to help provide funds to ANY PERSON who wants to run for political office. This would level the playing field and get citizens into the political process instead of the vast majorities of millionaire we see who use the political process to get richer.




^^^^^right or wrong, a detailed answer you won't get from a Hillary supporter^^^^^^