It's hard to argue against the fact that our current economic and political climate is a direct result of the “Citizens United” decision by SCOTUS in 2010.
Politicians are no longer accountable to their constituents.
They now work for the largest donors.
Politicians are no longer accountable to their constituents.
They now work for the largest donors.
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Your still missing a BIG chunk:
He’s a travesty if a ‘Justice’.
JFC
The demise of the world greatest democracy was baked in the SCOTUS cake 🎂 decades ago
No politician wanting to stay gainfully employed is coming to save any of us
(Anat Shenker-Osorio)
It's hard to define class warfare more clearly than that.
Citizens United was the GOP-SOTUS’s attempt to hand control to their largest donors
And it worked like that for a while
But THEN, the people the GOP harvested for votes (evangelicals, racists, gun-nuts, etc) became self-aware and took over the GOP.
BUT
There is now a very real schism between the Steve Bannon base of nutjobs who constitute the majority of GOP voters, and the Citizens United donor class (see ex: cuts to Medicare)
Both assumptions have proven to be incorrect.
The most important is disinformation from Fox.
We still don't know what he said to trump that stopped him cold in his tracks.