As long as capitalism is involved, it’ll seep its way into any democratic system and uproot any “greater good,” “for the people” outcome in favor of whoever’s benefiting the most from the capitalist component.
The real problem is Citizens United, which held that money is speech. As long as that ruling holds, we will be ruled by the ones with the most money.
And right now, that group is the TechBros who ran the right software at the right time in 2011 and are now sitting on a stash of crypto worth billions…
Yeah if it were overturned it’d just rear its head again later by another name, and really it was just removing red tape that was likely being circumvented anyway.
Citizen United is the most American thing just like the founding fathers made the American democracy to be. There was no universal suffrage, power was concentrated in the hands of few.
As long as capitalism is involved, it’ll seep its way into any democratic system and uproot any “greater good,” “for the people” outcome in favor of whoever’s benefiting the most from the capitalist component.
The real problem is Citizens United, which held that money is speech. As long as that ruling holds, we will be ruled by the ones with the most money.
And right now, that group is the TechBros who ran the right software at the right time in 2011 and are now sitting on a stash of crypto worth billions…
Citizens United is the most ideologically capitalist thing ever tho.
Yeah if it were overturned it’d just rear its head again later by another name, and really it was just removing red tape that was likely being circumvented anyway.
Citizen United is the most American thing just like the founding fathers made the American democracy to be. There was no universal suffrage, power was concentrated in the hands of few.