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In reply to the discussion: Rec If You Are Sick Of Our Pay To Play Corrupt Governemt Ran By The Oligarchs [View all]raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)17. Insane and unsustainable. What's not to like?
Billions in taxpayer subsidies every year direct to the pockets of Wall St shareholders. Owners, one and all, of the most environmentally destructive and politically corrupting industries that have and will most likely ever exist.
People who would never dream of clear cutting a forest or strip mining a mountain with their own hands but have no problem paying and profiting from others doing it for them.
The only way to start getting money out of politics is to keep ones own money out of politics.
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Rec If You Are Sick Of Our Pay To Play Corrupt Governemt Ran By The Oligarchs [View all]
Yallow
Apr 2016
OP
I believe that authoritarianism is why people will vote against their best interests.
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#8
They attack those of us that want single payer because they know it will make their leaders upset.
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#32
Thanks to DNC leadership, you can always get a payday loan to bribe a candidate...
whereisjustice
Apr 2016
#7
I'm sick of the utter idiocy of equating wealth with value as a human.
Half-Century Man
Apr 2016
#19
No. The Koch Brothers are better than the Clintons, and I believe the Bush Family is too,
bvar22
Apr 2016
#28
The Clinton Class are determined to kill the Goose that laid the Golden egg. The Clintons
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#33
And people vote in droves and openly support a billionaire Republican and a multi-millionaire
Feeling the Bern
Apr 2016
#35