Sweeping Democratic victories in off-year elections seem to be foreshadowing a very good midterms for the party, and one expert believes it’s even bigger than that.
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power,” Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on electing Democrats to statehouses, told Mother Jones.
Apparently we can limit Citizens United at the state level, or at least there are efforts currently being put into place to do so. If each state managed to implement their own caps on Citizens United then that would go a long ways towards giving power back to the people.
I feel that the largest amount of hope lies in increasing the amount of social programs in Blue States, like New Mexico is doing.