This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
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I don't know when we did it, but we did
Where there is a will, there is a way.
The era of trickle down tax cuts for the rich, the creation of a growing reactionary billionaire class (aka our oligarchs) and Citizens United have converged to hijack our politics and undermine our democratic institutions.
Solutions? Dunno…maybe: Governments run like jury duty? More microlending and community trusts? Wealth tax?