Robert Reich: The Sad Spectacle of Obama’s Super PAC

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41. Reich is wrong here.

"But would refusing to be corrupted this way really amount to unilateral disarmament? To the contrary, I think it would have given the President a rallying cry that nearly all Americans would get behind: “More of the nation’s wealth and political power is now in the hands of fewer people and large corporations than since the era of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. I will not allow our democracy to be corrupted by this! I will fight to take back our government!”

Small donations would have flooded the Obama campaign, overwhelming Romney’s billionaire super PACs. The people would have been given a chance to be heard."

I can guarantee this would not have happened. The average American does not give a rat's ass about politics, let alone campaign finance. Nobody would rally to Obama for rejecting a super PAC. Those who were going to give to Obama still will.

Obama would get blown out of the water without one, and Citizens United would be set in stone for at least a generation.