How Silicon Valley Boys Came to Rule Politics (opens in new tab)

(washingtonpost.com)

5 pointseevilspock1y ago9 comments

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k3101y ago

It's simple. The Golden Rule. Whoever has the gold rules. $290 million goes a long way, especially to a transactional person.

Since "Citizens United", it's not one person one vote. It's one dollar one vote.

All the racism, misogyny and immigrant hate was just bait to get the middle class to vote against their own best interests by slashing services and increasing import prices (tariff money goes to the government) to give tax breaks to the wealthy and to destroy regulations, especially on tech and crypto.

Illustration (imgbb.com) https://i.ibb.co/9qS5wLJ/voterepelon.jpg

rbanffy1y ago

All that, and controlling the platforms people use to communicate also helps a lot to shape public discourse.

Is there a plausible path to revert Citizens United and enact aggressive restrictions on corporate donations?

alabastervlog1y ago

Expand the court. Say, one justice per circuit. Or launch a multi-decade plan to remake the court, like the Republicans did, and methodically follow through, and hope the country's still around by then.

Those are the options. I don't think there are any other (legal) ones. If you judge neither of those plausible, then, no, there is not a plausible path.

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