Last year, the U.S Supreme Court made a disastrous ruling which effectively ended American democracy. Under the guise of the U.S First Amendment, which protects ‘free speech’, the Citizens United decision allows billionaires, powerful companies and their executives to put unlimited sums of money into campaigns without even having to be identified. What it essentially says is corporations and billionaires can sit in a room and decide who is going to become the president of the United States, a U.S. senator, a congressperson, or governor. That corporations get to choose who our "leaders" are explains why they don't pay taxes. Can this system still be called democracy? Somehow I doubt it.
[ h/t Xenophrenia ]
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