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If I may add to your comment; Supreme Court cases such as Citizens' United and Buckley v. Valeo have given the wealthy and their corporations overwhelming prerogative to "buy" the best government they need for their own private, often nefarious (not in the interest of the Average American) purposes and intentions.
Current scholars have do…
If I may add to your comment; Supreme Court cases such as Citizens' United and Buckley v. Valeo have given the wealthy and their corporations overwhelming prerogative to "buy" the best government they need for their own private, often nefarious (not in the interest of the Average American) purposes and intentions.
Current scholars have documented how the United States is now an Oligarchy. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
This is what 40 years of faux "conservatives" (really capitalist shills) have done to America. Stolen it from the people and sold it off to the highest bidder.
Is that the sharpening of the guillotine I hear in the distance? Fraire Jaques dormi vue?
I absolutely agree. Amazingly, I thought I was awake by June 2020, but I have learned so much since then. It doesn't matter who we "elect" - it's all the same. Now we are in deep doodoo.