Thank you for this much needed reminder and wake up call. There is so much insanity going on, it's hard to keep track of and prioritize all the steps that need to be taken to bring our country back from the edge of a cliff. Ending Citizen's United needs to be near the very top of the list. I hope Democrats are truly ready for the hard work ahead after the mid-terms next fall.
We had a movement that covered all of this---.it was Occupy Wall Street.
We protested every Wednesday afternoon for YEARS. My signs said: Corporations Are Not People and Money Is Not Speech. Then along came Black Lives Matter and now No Kings. Occupy and Indivisible are still leading the way. Now we know it's not just Wall Street. It is indeed the billionaires, tech bros, and crypto creeps too. Some of them are all three.
We are going to get our "nice things", because we are going to never stop. I think I'll ask to be cremated with my last protest sign. It may wake up the person that takes care of that. Get louder. Fight harder. Never give up. See you in the streets.
If not for Citizens United, the morbidly rich would have found another way to accomplish their objectives of deregulation and cutting their taxes. They're winning the class war for now, but there are many times more of us than of them.
Thanks Thom, I never considered the wider ramifications of Citizens United decision beyond campaign finance. Trump and crew may well screw things up so badly for the vast majority of Americans that even some MAGA's will see the truth and quit voting against themselves. Additional wishful thinking ... young people get engaged and start raising hell on college campuses and in demonstrations in general.
America is a plantation, well stocked with unthinking wage slaves.
One where, in the same way African slaves could not be legally taught to read. US students K-12 will not be taught to think. Not be trained to reason abstractly, to analyze critically.
Thanks to a 200 year old Prussian public education system meant to turn out workers and soldiers. People who only follow orders. A system which we imported, and which our present day Secretary of A-1 Steak Sauce's [she thought it was Artificial Intelligence.] gutting of the Dept of Education will ensure continues.
Every November it's BOHICA time. [Bend Over Here It Comes Again]
#VOTE out the Crud #Eric to Hormuz
Question begged:
If dirty money is speech, why can't A-1 steak sauce be Artificial Intelligence?!!
Without Citizens United, we wouldn’t have corporate Democrats. Without corporate Democrats we’d have an expanded SCOTUS, a Party willing to exercise the power of its convictions, ranked choice voting, unassailable voting rights, genuine campaign finance reform, a government of, by, and for the PEOPLE.
Whyizit, Obama did not kill Citizens United when he took office with a majority in both houses? Why is it that most democrats view Citizens United as undermining our democracy, yet the DNC does not appear to have a strategy for overturning the worst decision in SCOTUS history? I bet the Heritage Foundation has strategies to undermine attempts to undo Citizens United.
Thank you for this much needed reminder and wake up call. There is so much insanity going on, it's hard to keep track of and prioritize all the steps that need to be taken to bring our country back from the edge of a cliff. Ending Citizen's United needs to be near the very top of the list. I hope Democrats are truly ready for the hard work ahead after the mid-terms next fall.
We had a movement that covered all of this---.it was Occupy Wall Street.
We protested every Wednesday afternoon for YEARS. My signs said: Corporations Are Not People and Money Is Not Speech. Then along came Black Lives Matter and now No Kings. Occupy and Indivisible are still leading the way. Now we know it's not just Wall Street. It is indeed the billionaires, tech bros, and crypto creeps too. Some of them are all three.
We are going to get our "nice things", because we are going to never stop. I think I'll ask to be cremated with my last protest sign. It may wake up the person that takes care of that. Get louder. Fight harder. Never give up. See you in the streets.
If not for Citizens United, the morbidly rich would have found another way to accomplish their objectives of deregulation and cutting their taxes. They're winning the class war for now, but there are many times more of us than of them.
Thanks Thom, I never considered the wider ramifications of Citizens United decision beyond campaign finance. Trump and crew may well screw things up so badly for the vast majority of Americans that even some MAGA's will see the truth and quit voting against themselves. Additional wishful thinking ... young people get engaged and start raising hell on college campuses and in demonstrations in general.
How do Rs [incl. USSC] do it?
America is a plantation, well stocked with unthinking wage slaves.
One where, in the same way African slaves could not be legally taught to read. US students K-12 will not be taught to think. Not be trained to reason abstractly, to analyze critically.
Thanks to a 200 year old Prussian public education system meant to turn out workers and soldiers. People who only follow orders. A system which we imported, and which our present day Secretary of A-1 Steak Sauce's [she thought it was Artificial Intelligence.] gutting of the Dept of Education will ensure continues.
Every November it's BOHICA time. [Bend Over Here It Comes Again]
#VOTE out the Crud #Eric to Hormuz
Question begged:
If dirty money is speech, why can't A-1 steak sauce be Artificial Intelligence?!!
Without Citizens United, we wouldn’t have corporate Democrats. Without corporate Democrats we’d have an expanded SCOTUS, a Party willing to exercise the power of its convictions, ranked choice voting, unassailable voting rights, genuine campaign finance reform, a government of, by, and for the PEOPLE.
Whyizit, Obama did not kill Citizens United when he took office with a majority in both houses? Why is it that most democrats view Citizens United as undermining our democracy, yet the DNC does not appear to have a strategy for overturning the worst decision in SCOTUS history? I bet the Heritage Foundation has strategies to undermine attempts to undo Citizens United.