• School_Lunch@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The problem is it was only “discussed” instead of “railed against”. Then the Citizens United ruling came around, and the country was lost to the oligarchs.

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      Reminder that Citizens United was 2010. Just before the bump in the graph. Hard to argue it’s had any effect! /s