Republicans Go To War While Democrats Try To Negotiate
Dems must stop the religious hustlers, racists and billionaires from picking Uncle Sam’s pockets
There’s a recurring pattern to American politics that began in the 1980s, right after the Supreme Court legalized billionaires owning individual politicians in 1976 with their Buckley decision.
Prior to that, Democrats and Republicans worked together to craft legislation that involved some compromise on both sides but moved, generally, in the direction of enhancing the general health and welfare of the American people.
This was how we got Medicare, Medicaid, long-term unemployment insurance, food stamps, housing support, job training programs, support for unionization, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Pell grants for college and dozens of other good policies out of Congress in the 1960s and 1970s.
But in 1976 the Supreme Court ruled that when an individual billionaire owned an individual politician that was no longer “political corruption” or “bribery,” as it had been referred to since the founding of the republic.
Instead, the Supreme Court said in 1976 (and doubled-down-on with Citizens United in 2010), that money the billionaire was pouring down the throat of that politician…
