parallaxingposition

To what extend does the MayDay PAC's success depend on an inevitable overturning of Citizen's United or FEC v. Speechnow.org? Is the strategy to create new legislation that effectively overturns their affects or will there also be an attack on those decisions?

Assuming the MayDay campaign succeeded in its goal, how likely do you see it that much will change for the public? Currently most public institutions are operating on a neoliberal ideology since budget austerity and efficiency are the primary modes of financial operation in them. This creates a void where there is a lacking space for citizen groups to put pressure on the State to promote local/regional/national changes.

Is it possible that even with campaign finance reform, the revolving door of who runs for office gets even worse - pushing the problem deeper into the party nominations - and public institutions continue to be operated on market rationale making the average citizen no better off?

This question comes from a big chunk of my research, which is on civic action, and has been clear in saying that most people have no idea how to seek retribution when harm is done to the public (e.g., natural gas drilling hurting water supplies, or maybe when a huge oil company ruins all fishing for the Gulf Coast). I understand this reform looks like step 1 in this, but is it possible with out a concomitance of efforts at the institutional level, political strategies will just change to keep fitting the bill of corporate agendas?

Is there a danger that this PAC may become just another lobby group who has an agenda, but with a majority of congress operating outside of its interest, none of its reforms ever get passed? (this would just make it the same as environmental, educational, or social welfare reformers)