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Caroline C McCabe's avatar

What can I say? just please don’t stop speaking truth to power. Thank you!!

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Lisa McLeod's avatar

Amen! We used to talk about publicly funded elections! Now, that’s never even considered. Money in politics is a fundamental cancer on our society. All elections should be publicly funded. The Supreme Court should not be allowed to operate as an oligarchic institution with no real checks on their authority and power. No political party should be allowed to draw congressional boundaries. These are fundamental changes that would help to curtail the open usurpation of democracy in this country and would slow the growth of Americans who yearn for authoritarian leaders to “protect” them. Economically insecure people are people who can be convinced to follow authoritarian con men like Trump and DeSantis. Corporate Democrats and DINOs like Manchin, strip the already disenfranchised and disaffected populace of the feeling that they are being heard and that their leaders are actually advocating for their best interests. Once that happens, they are much more likely to turn to Con men who use fear and division to keep the working classes (I include in this the “middle class” which is a BS term used to divide the working class against itself) fighting* amongst itself so that they don’t rise up against the wealthy, who are the ones that are ACTUALLY stealing jobs, suppressing wages, and destroying economic mobility. Money in politics is the root of all evil.

*edited to fix an autocorrect error.

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