What exactly is the logic of American liberals who claim getting "money out of politics" would do anything to fix the innate contradictions of capitalism?
I live surrounded by liberals. When I ask them how they would solve the existing problems in the current system, they always reduce their solutions down to three things: 1. arrest the "Epstein class" (yay, prisons!), 2. overturn the Citizens United SCOTUS decision to get money out of politics, and 3. bring back the Fairness Doctrine (no idea how that's supposed to work when everyone under 35 is getting their political views from influencers, YouTubers, and Twitch streamers rather than TV news but I digress).
I have a very hard time understanding how politics is supposed to be divorced from money in any way. The entire political system is designed to serve the capitalist class. Putting limits on how much the rich can donate to politicians or lobbyist groups doesn't change that.
It seems like the main reason liberals like spreading this myth is because they take for granted the idea everyone would willingly vote for mediocre establishment Democrats over the GOP if billionaires weren't allowed to give large sums of money to GOP candidates, never mind the fact that plenty of billionaires also support liberal Democrats too (Obama's biggest donor in 2008 was Goldman-Sachs, for instance). I fail to see how overturning Citizens United would do anything to lead us to socialism. Seems like more of a symbolic victory than anything. What does everyone else say?