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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFYI: 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
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Mika
(17,751 posts)2. Yep. All the world's a stage.
Set up, like a bowling pin...
Armstead
(47,803 posts)3. That thought occurred to me today
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
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.