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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
11. Lol. Must have seen Hamilton. Between internet small-donor
Mon Sep 9, 2019, 11:12 AM
Sep 2019

funding, which already is a grave threat to control by wealth, public funding, and a number of practical anti-corruption laws, a good part of it will be accomplished until we can repeal Citizens.

Better yet, though, voters can slice and dice the new centimillionaire and billionaires classes and make even their hard-core RWers wish they hadn't been so fatally greedy. Like our grandparents' generations did in their time. We almost got to it that job in 2017.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi quoting Justice Louis Brandeis in her address to the nation at the opening the 116th congress. She knows what we'll do with power, just as we all know what Republicans are doing with it.

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