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0 pointskomali23mo ago0 comments

Elections elected Trump twice, so what other strategy should Americans try next?

Americans have been a democracy for 200 years and have no healthcare, no public transit, a crippling drug and homeless problem, a crippling gun violence problem... The list goes on. Democracy doesn't seem to be having the desired affect there.

Why should that suddenly change? Where's this hope coming from?

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mrtesthah3mo ago

Most of this intransigence is due to corruption, starting with a billionaire cabal’s influence over the supreme court. Citizens United has all but granted the power to decide elections to super PACs, and therefore to the billionaire donor class.

Unfortunately with 90% of broadcast television soon to be owned by a single family, overturning this corrupt power may be even more difficult.

I think it’s time for society as a whole to reconsider the social contract legitimizing the wealth of these oligarchs.

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