I just read this article in Vox Media by Andrew Prokop.
He writes:
Barack Obama has a radical idea for how to reform campaign finance: amend the Constitution.
The president told Vox in an exclusive interview that he wants to see such a drastic change, because he thinks the money-in-politics status quo is so damaging to our political system.
Arguing that "unlimited money" in politics is a key cause of polarization, Obama said, "I would love to see some constitutional process that would allow us to actually regulate campaign spending the way we used to, and maybe even improve it."
So while Obama may believe that big money in politics causes polarization, he's also aware that the potential reforms addressing the issue are themselves polarizing. To Vox, he characterized the reform as one of several "structural things that I'd like to see that I think would improve this.
But, knowing it's unlikely to happen anytime soon, he went on to argue that things might not be so bad, historically. "You know there have been periods in the past where we've been pretty polarized. I think, there just wasn't polling around. As I recall there was a whole civil war," Obama said. "That was a good example of polarization that took place."
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