[brwnll]

Love when people call something undemocratic just because they are against the goals of a group.

Wealthy individuals and groups have power to publish advertisements and arguments for their ideas/proposals to try to change the mind of the voters. Attempting to convince the voters your right is not undemocratic, it's the core of democracy.

Additionally, anyone who believes that the plutocracy has more power in America now than ever before is entirely ignorant of even general American history. It wasn't that long ago where there was so little regulation on business, political and police bribes so common, that the wealthy could ignore any law they wanted without any fear of reprisal.

[pessimizer]

The point of the article is that they didn't convince on the merits, they convinced by completely saturating all forms of media with a single point of view, losing repeatedly (still), until they eventually eked out a win. Then when that win was found to be unconstitutional, they paid politicians directly. If that's the core of democracy, I don't understand what was so bad about Pravda.

[B1FF_PSUVM]

> the wealthy could ignore any law they wanted without any fear of reprisal.

Oh, well. It was nice while it lasted.

Guess now they'll just behave and go gently into the night.

I love happy endings. So cosy. Sigh.