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Why would I want to encourage the Democrats shitty behaviour? Voting for more of them tells them "yes, I want you to keep backing down on everything you promsed", which I don't want.
No, those are the things they talk about doing, but as soon as they have the power, suddenly they are too busy focusing on perpetuating wars, bailing out their rich friends, and fighting against fair elections to get any of those things done
They literally already took money out of politics from 2003 to 2010. That's what Citizens United means, it's the court case that put money back in politics. Every DNC politician talks about overturning it but they need a SCOTUS majority or 60 Senators to do it. DNC would be taxing the rich right now as the GOP tax plan expires next year, but stupid assholes let a GOP majority in to write the new one just like they did in 2017. If you really don't think the DNC expands ballot access and promotes fair districting, then clearly you haven't been watching anything going on around you.
The DNC haven't had 60 senators since 1979. Try it first, then tell me it doesn't work.
I've seen them backtrack on enough things to pretty openly not believe them. They could do all kinds of finance reform around politics but keep choosing not to. They keep taking in tons of money, and fighting against the politicians that say they want to overturn CU.
I watch it all the time. I saw them sue to keep 3rd parties off the ballot. I saw them sabatoge Bernie's campaign. I saw them push their own progressive party members out. I saw them push two terrible candidates for the last presidental election that their base was loudly saying they didn't want.
So no, I don't think they care about open elections