Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy?

cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  2010

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

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  • Doorbook@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Classic. it is Obama fault.

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    • eightpix@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Read Chomsky’s Understanding Power (2002) and Manufacturing Consent (1988). It’s been an oligarchy since at least the 1980s. It’s Reagan’s fault. Jimmy Carter — rest in power —was the last, best hope for the kind of America that humanity wanted.

      Read the Fred J. Cook’s The Warfare State (1962).

      President Dwight D. Eisenhower was right about the Military-Industrial complex. It used to just be weapons, technology, energy, and heavy industries. The associated industries have metastasized to include entertainment, finance, housing, and education.

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      • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Food

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  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also the subesquent SpeechNow decision that pulled out the stops AND created precedent by citing Citizens United.

    ballotpedia.org/SpeechNOW.org_v._Federal_Election…

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