that Congress gets to legally insider trade on stocks? They immediately outlawed their right to do so and then quietly reinstituted legal insider trading 6 months later. This is another way big companies and Wall Street banks purchase our politicians.
If it wasn't so tragic it would be funny that we complain about our politicians being corrupt, yet allow them to accept legal bribes in the form of insider stock tips, campaign contributions, Super PACs, Dark Money, revolving door, lobbyists gifts/trips...
We complain of the symptoms of this corruption, hyper-partisianship, lack of prosecution of white collar crime, growing wealth inequality, no bid contracts, voter purges and election fraud, ... but do not demand campaign finance reform!
Until we attack the root problem causing most of our other problems we will not make any progress and our country will continue its downward spiral! The American people (Us) need to demand Publicly Funded Elections! We need to force the politicians to take away the perks that allow them to be unduly influenced.
With the incoming Trump administration our downward spiral is going to be a straight drop into a bottomless pit.
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