Billionaires and mega donors have been given free reign to buy our elections ever since the Citizens United decision was handed down by SCOTUS on this day 15 years ago. These dark money donors are a serious threat to our Democracy, we have to #StopTheOligarchy
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Which is odd, because just on its face I said at the time: so that means if you have more money, you have more speech.
And that's exactly what it was.
..we had come to the stage where for our people what was needed was a real democracy; and of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy
Theodore Roosevelt
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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/395646/trump-inauguration-broligarchs-musk-zuckerberg-bezos-thiel
"FEC v. Citizens United".
It was NOT Argued Through The Court System By "Citizens",
No. It was Pursued By "Corporations".
Corporations are NOT People, and By Extension, NOT Citizens.
The Decision Text:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/558/310/