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Except they've always had all the power. The money gets what the money wants.
True.
But now more of the hurdles will be removed. Gotta make that wealth extraction more efficient ๐๐ฅด
Can't let those poor and middle class people hold onto any of their money.
That's not true, we had a good run from the forties until I was born in the eighties. A whole forty years of some amount of power!
do you understand how much of the civil rights movement has happened since the eighties?
we've made them make concessions before. we've won before. we could win again.
and you... you ^have^ ^no^ ^idea^ ^how^ ^badly^ ^i^ ^wish^ ^i^ ^believed^ ^what^ ^i^ ^just^ ^said.^
Yeah I guess before the full weight of the citizens united decision killed what was left we eaked out a bit of stuff.