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2016 Postmortem

Skwmom

(12,685 posts) Thu Jun 9, 2016, 10:36 PM Jun 2016

FYI: Laws that devastated America and its people were passed YEARS before we ever heard of Citizens

United. What a dog and pony show.

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FYI: Laws that devastated America and its people were passed YEARS before we ever heard of Citizens (Original Post) Skwmom Jun 2016 OP

Huh? braddy Jun 2016 #1

Yep. All the world's a stage. Mika Jun 2016 #2

That thought occurred to me today Armstead Jun 2016 #3

Hell, look at how good China has been at getting Americans to focus on NAFTA Recursion Jun 2016 #4

braddy

(3,585 posts)

1. Huh?

Reply to Skwmom (Original post)

Thu Jun 9, 2016, 10:45 PM

Jun 2016

Mika

(17,751 posts)

2. Yep. All the world's a stage.

Reply to Skwmom (Original post)

Fri Jun 10, 2016, 03:50 AM

Jun 2016

Set up, like a bowling pin...

Armstead

(47,803 posts)

3. That thought occurred to me today

Reply to Skwmom (Original post)

Fri Jun 10, 2016, 03:57 AM

Jun 2016

everybody uses that as the culprit

But that was just the final nail of many in the coffin of electoral democracy, The corpse died many years ago.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

4. Hell, look at how good China has been at getting Americans to focus on NAFTA

Reply to Armstead (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 10, 2016, 06:43 AM

Jun 2016

rather than on China's MFN status (I know we disagree on NAFTA; I'm sure we both agree China's PNTR status is a joke and something close to a disaster). But Americans are really bad about being distracted by a single shiny.

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