Bernie Sanders
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(17,796 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)cantbeserious
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SunSeeker
(51,827 posts)But we had the rich buying our elections before Citizens United. What we need is public funding of elections. Get money completely out of elections.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,038 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)How could anyone disagree with this post? How could anyone say we shouldn't do all we can to correct this rigged system?
Some insist the free market is self-correcting, if free enterprise is just allowed to operate unhindered without undue regulation and interference by the government. This used to be exclusively Republican ideology. Although some are reluctant to admit it, this ideology has been adopted by corporatist Democrats. I am reluctant to admit these Democrats are actually Democrats at all.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)the "Dean Scream" . With Bernie gaining traction, they'll throw all they got at him.
Enthusiast
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lastlib
(23,394 posts)...ON THE RECORD! if they support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. Those who don't answer affirmatively are the enemy. Those who do, we can work with.
Duval
(4,280 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)It is a feature.
Thanks to millions of corporate lobbyists, attorneys, investors and self serving politicians whose oaths to Constitutions are as hallow as their souls.
Maybe that is a tad harsh. We aren't where we are overnight, and it wasn't thanks to one generation, it has been the planets biggest crowdfund with each generation adding its own little pieces to the legislative puzzle and labyrinth our corporate and banking laws and oversight have become. Up to the crowning moment that the corporations have become "We the people".
It is all thanks to those who have eyes only for dollar signs. They have turned what could have been a healthy democracy that functions not just for Americans, but spreads democracy and fairness across the globe for all people into a personal ATM only for themselves and only for perhaps another generation.
All it took was the industrial revolution and a few generations of affluenza riddled racists and well meaning simpletons to make a beautiful world into a cesspool. Really pretty amazing when you think about it. You know they didn't back then, the world was endless.
Unlike Daniel Boone, they never lived long enough to see the fruits of their labors. To see just how the trails they blazed, led to the destruction of what brought them, and all of us, the most happiness.
I have a hard time blaming those who didn't know any better. Just as I do today.
Ignorance is indeed bliss.
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)when Lee Atwater developed "the southern strategy"...the Filthy Rich have been buying politicians on all levels for years...the GodOffalParty leaders realized they could not win elections if they had only their agenda to run on...
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)HFRN
(1,469 posts)trade bills are why all income goes to the 1 percent
all that income taken from the working and middle classes had to go somewhere
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)corporations rule the world. But fighting corporate take-over is too hard for most. Denial is so comforting.
HFRN
(1,469 posts)corporations already rule the world, now
Doc_Technical
(3,530 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)"Corporate society takes care of everything. And all it asks of anyone, all it's ever asked of anyone ever, is not to interfere with management decisions."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/quotes
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Yup, we have the means to bring about fairness, we just need to elect the people who will use them.