Insurance companies, Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Food, Big Oil, gun manufacturers, big banks, Big Tech, media giants and defense contractors form a matrix of corporate tyranny now. Their short term profits have replaced democracy as the governing principle of our country.
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Replying to @FascistMurica
Not really. It wasn’t until Citizens United that their unregulated unfettered power became so obscenely dominant in our politics.

Oct 20, 2022 · 3:37 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
It's the $6T the government redistributes every year that attracts big business. You'll never fix the obscenity of politics until you shrink that number dramatically.
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Citizens United was 2010, Obama let Citibank choose his cabinet in 2008.
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It started under Lincoln
Replying to @marwilliamson
The conspiracy outlined in the infamous Powell memo came to fruition when Regan was elected in 1980 (according to the 2014 study by Gilens & Page that proved the U.S. is an oligarchy) but it was many more years before people began to notice. - see pinned links.
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Since I support all of your values, I won't disagree But, yes, that did solidify their power But it was and is the dark side of the genius of America....the use of force....German translation 'kraft'..power....the enabling use of force
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And the way the Telecommunications Act of 1996 affected the media's coverage of politics. News was always a loss leader at TV stations for instance. Now the shareholders wanted profit.
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They always have. Citizens United made the fact obscenely obvious
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