@RolloTreadway it functionally came down to individuals are allowed to market for their preferred candidates (free speech/expression/etc), which is why they ruled superpacs can't be stopped as long as they pinky swear not to collude with the candidate.

scott adams had an episode some years ago asking about the one person one vote concept. legally its 1=1, but in practice some people control others. being rich enough to buy more ads or being a famous actor to just command followers to do stuff, now one person controls a thousand votes, and so on.

its kind of hard to solve the problem in a 'correct' way. there are ham fisted ways that amount to immediate use of force, but you can't use those while also keeping a straight face about being a rule of law country. (rule of law has arguably failed in all countries, admittedly.)