“I’ll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. “I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.” “I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.” “Hey, wait a minute, there’s one guy holding out both puppets!”” – Bill Hicks
democracy in the US..that's about it in a nutshell.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It's the money in politics.
Repeal "Citizen's United"...a lovely name to a very greed-obsessed bill that's creating our "puppets", as above.
Bipartisan Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United Introduced... “Years after the Citizens United decision, election spending has exploded into billion-dollar races that corrupt our elections by drowning out the voices of American voters," said Congressman Deutch.Jan 4, 2019
Bipartisan Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United ...
[raskin.house.gov]
Robecology
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May 27, 2019
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You would also need to repeal Buckley v. Valeo from the 1970s. That case set the precedent that money equaled free speech.
It is. The two major parties perform a version of Japanese kabuki theater between them pretending to be opposing each other while behind the scenes they enact a shared agenda of permanent war, shared rule by the rich and corporations that bleeds the rest of us dry while enriching those groups, and lastly letting the environment decay.
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