• Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    Citizens United made bribery legal, and the working class has been broken down for decades and forced into poverty.

    There is no American “working class” party, because they can’t afford to bribe any of the parties. Democrats sorta kinda pretend to care, occasionally, so they are currently wearing the mantle.

    • thelivefive@startrek.website
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      Citizens United made it worse, but we were fucked before then. Lobbying is just legalized bribery. We need to repeal Citizens United but then we need to keep going and rework the whole campaign finance and lobbying systems too.